瑜伽師地論略纂 11.35

11.35

論解菩薩下品中，「若時菩薩住下成熟，爾時便有下品欲樂、下品加行，猶往惡趣」者，此菩薩其實已離惡趣業，不受惡趣生，然為利益有情時，故往彼生，因即起染，受彼報趣，故初劫時，有生惡趣。如金翅鳥入海食龍，食龍既訖，上飛空𭔉，因取龍故，脚下有泥，其實無意，本在取龍，取龍之時，因遂泥污。菩薩亦然，因利有情，遂被染繫，故初劫時，亦生惡趣。　若爾，如所引經若有成世間，增上品正見，頌云何通？義曰：彼約不以正見為緣生惡趣，何妨地前有起惡趣業而生惡趣。

The treatise explains regarding the lower grade of bodhisattvas: "When a bodhisattva abides in lower maturation, at that time they have lower-grade desire and aspiration and lower-grade preparation, and still go to the bad destinies." This bodhisattva has actually already abandoned the karma of the bad destinies and does not take rebirth in the bad destinies; however, when benefiting sentient beings, they deliberately go to be born there, and in connection with that they give rise to defilement and experience that retributive destiny; thus during the first aeon, they may be born in the bad destinies. Just as when a garuḍa enters the ocean to eat dragons, having finished eating the dragons, it flies up and soars into the sky; because of seizing the dragons, there is mud on its feet; in truth it had no intention [of taking mud], its original purpose being to seize the dragons, but in seizing the dragons, it became stained by the mud. The bodhisattva is also like this: on account of benefiting sentient beings, they are subsequently bound by defilement, and therefore during the first aeon, they are also born in the bad destinies. If so, how does one reconcile the verse of the cited sūtra: "If one has accomplished worldly / highest-grade right view..."? The explanation says: That speaks with respect to not being born in bad destinies with right view as a condition; what prevents one who has not yet reached the bhūmis from giving rise to karma of the bad destinies and being born in the bad destinies?