瑜伽論記 4.263

4.263

In these latter three, the phrases 'whether bad or good' and so forth are all as stated for the first. The latter four stations of mastery all have the ideation of no internal form; however, their contemplation of external forms differs in the four colors of blue, yellow, red, and white. Here, 'ideation of internal form,' 'ideation of no internal form,' and so forth are as explained under the vimokṣas. In the preceding vimokṣas, 'having form' was said without saying 'internal.' The present text says 'internal' because previously, even though one viewed an internal body, the ideation of having form was established and present to one who was not yet detached from the defilement of form; and because one was not yet detached from any defilement of form, it merely said 'having form' without saying 'internal.' Taking all these forms as its objective domain, one produced the ideation of illumination without having emerged from the defilement of form, hence it was called 'contemplating forms'; or alternatively, it comprehensively contemplated internal and external forms, so it could not be called 'contemplating external forms.' The present stations of mastery contemplate only non-sense-faculty forms and do not contemplate sense-faculty forms. Because internally there are sense-faculty forms, it is called 'having internal form.' This is the distinction from the preceding. The remaining points on 'few,' 'many,' and so forth are as explained in the text itself.