瑜伽論記 9.430

9.430

Jing says: The initial lower-grade person has cultivated the aids to liberation, etc., but has not escaped the bad destinies; in their present life they cannot enter nobility, attain the fruit, and exhaust the taints; passing through much time in cultivation, they enter nobility and attain arhatship in an age without a Buddha. The second person abides in the path of expedients and has already attained non-deliberate cessation regarding the bad destinies; in the present life they enter nobility and obtain the fruit, but cannot exhaust the taints; having entered nobility, they become a person of seven rebirths, etc., and undergo saṃsāra again, attaining arhatship in their final body in an age without a Buddha. These former two persons are flock-dwellers (vargacārin) and are identical to śrāvakas; as in this text, they are inferred to be identical to śrāvakas.