瑜伽論記 8.67

8.67

As for the statement: 'By these causes and conditions, whether previously abandoned or presently abandoned, it is stated collectively that "with the abandonment of pleasure and abandonment of pain, prior grief and joy have vanished"': the abandonment of pleasure is called the present abandonment; the remaining faculties of feeling are called what was previously abandoned. Therefore, below it is repeatedly stated: '...up to, when entering the first dhyāna, the feeling of grief vanishes.' Herein, as stated earlier in Fascicle 11: 'Why is it said that the faculty of pain is not yet abandoned in the first dhyāna? Because the unserviceability of its category has not yet been abandoned.' If the body is in the lower realm, that may be so. For what reason is the faculty of pain not yet abandoned in one who is in the first dhyāna, yet does not become active? Because the various pains comprised by its counterpart and companion, the faculty of grief, have already been abandoned by that person; only its unserviceability has not yet been abandoned. If the faculty of pain were abandoned in the first dhyāna, then there would be no distinction in the abiding produced by feeling when the practitioner enters the first and second dhyānas, for both possess joy and pleasure, so there would be no distinction. It is only because unserviceability has not yet been abandoned that a distinction is spoken of; and in the sūtra it is said that through transcending the various feelings there is definitely a distinction.