瑜伽論記 3.86

3.86

In the ninth, the faults of karma, 'generating faults in the present lifetime' means, for example, those who are capable of harming themselves: when one initiates the preparatory application of killing but the act of killing is not yet completed, one is harmed by another in the present; because in the future one does not necessarily experience [retribution for] a grave karma that was not completed. Furthermore, as an ordinary worldling, one previously engaged in killing and the like and is harmed by another in the present, but later enters noble status and does not experience future retribution; or one is able to transform future retribution so that it is experienced in the present life and never experienced again in the future, as in the case of Aṅgulimāla and others. This is also called a fault in the present lifetime, pointing to the same meaning as being capable of harming oneself as before; hence it says 'means, for example'. In 'experiencing the grief and suffering of body and mind generated thereby,' the 'six kinds of faults' refers to the aforesaid self-harm and the like: although one undertook the preparatory means, they could not be completed, generating grief and suffering of body and mind.