瑜伽論記 3.267

3.267

Eighth, as for 'Because an agent of production is nonexistent': it means there is neither self-making nor making by another. If there were a self that makes, or an other that makes such as Mahābrahmā, then there would be an agent of production. 'Because conditions are without active functioning': it means there is not joint making. 'Because they are produced by the power of conditions': it means they are also not produced without cause. The Abhidharma states: 'Dharmas are not produced from themselves, nor are they produced from another, nor are they produced from both; nor are they produced without the two. Although conditions are without active functioning, conditions possessing causal efficacy are obtainable.' 'Not self-produced' refutes [the view of] an agent of self; 'not produced from another' refutes production from an unequal cause such as Maheśvara; 'not produced from both' refutes the doctrine of active functioning held by the Sarvāstivādins and others; 'not produced without cause' refutes the doctrine of causelessness. That [treatise] says: 'If the principle of dependent origination merely negates the two positions of