瑜伽論記 8.93

8.93

In the sixth perception, it says: "That is, due to this perception, recalling and recollecting continuously from one's childhood up to the present": As the Hinayana treatises state, the supernormal knowledge of past abodes first retroactively traces from the old age of the present body back through middle age, youth, childhood, and infancy, and on up to the death-existence of the previous life, whereupon [knowledge of] past abodes is accomplished. Now here it says: "from one's childhood up to the present", which is stated on the basis of a remote preliminary expedient. If later memory is accomplished, then one gradually pushes forward from the present body until one knows the aggregates at death, and only then is [knowledge of] past abodes accomplished. "Up to recollecting and clearly knowing in proper sequence without omission what was previously experienced and practiced": This is said on the basis of initial cultivation, where one must proceed in sequence from later to earlier; if one re-knows it, one knows everything, whether in sequence or skipping ahead. In the seventh perception, the assembly bound by oaths gathered in one place where they are spurred to action is called a community assembly.