瑜伽論記 3.98

3.98

Regarding 'The continuous fruit-consciousness together with name-and-form, up to decline and old age' and so on, Ji says: If based on stages, prior to the first seven days it is called consciousness; prior to the seven sets of seven days it is called name-and-form. Now speaking of the narrower and broader scopes of the fundamental and derivative states, by speaking of mutual dependence it subsumes the six sense bases and the like, only mentioning these two up to decline and old age, not that there are no others. Furthermore, within the present links of birth and old age and death, because the manifestation of fruit arisen from consciousness and name-and-form is prominent, their names are spoken; it does not mean that the links of consciousness and the rest reside in the present lifetime. In [Fascicle] 93, with consciousness as the support, it speaks of the karma of consciousness conferring the fruit of karmic maturation; here, speaking of the supported, it says that the karma of name-and-form confers the fruit of karmic maturation, because general and distinct karmic maturations, as well as the supported and the support, are distinct. 'Because it must necessarily roll along reliant on the six supports' refers precisely to the six sense faculties subsumed within name-and-form. 'Therefore the sūtra says name-and-form is conditioned by consciousness': this relies on the bodhisattva's reverse contemplation of suffering and its origin up to consciousness and name-and-form conditioning each other mutually; having completed the contemplation of the truths, seeing that they pull each other as mutual conditions, the contemplation of suffering and origin stops at consciousness, as extensively explained in [Fascicle] 93. 'Serving as the support for the six consciousnesses according to their correspondency' does not merely speak of the manifest consciousness generated by the seed of consciousness among the five seeds, which is solely the eighth; hence Fascicle 93 and below speak comprehensively of the continuous aggregation of all to name the six groups of consciousness, the meaning revealing that it speaks collectively of the consciousness of a single lifespan's body. Therefore, name-and-form is conditioned by consciousness, being held and maintained by consciousness, with consciousness as its support; consciousness is conditioned by name-and-form, relying on it as a support or observing it as an object.