瑜伽師地論略纂 15.37

15.37

問答眼與識是因果，如何俱有中云何何故？眼與識非正生因，唯建立因。勝軍論師：此文證知種子現行時別時生，如非正生因故。根非同時生識，是建立因，得同時生，故知正生因異時生。今解云：此文據正生、非正生。正生者，是種生芽之因，明同時；不言正生，即異時。此中言建立因，是增上緣，非正生因緣，增上緣因果何妨同時生？故下文雖有自種，無此依故，識不應生。其正生因即不定，種生種異時故。前〈本地〉第五若同類異念生，非即此剎那生現異類，故同時生。彼勝軍釋此七義種子文及俱有子文，如四相中辨。此中經部正生因果時生，《俱舍論》廣敘彼難，如三救。

In the question and answer regarding how the eye and consciousness, being cause and effect, can be simultaneous, why is this so? The eye and consciousness are not direct productive causes (janaka-hetu), but merely establishing causes. Master Jayasena: This text proves that seeds and actualized states arise at different times, as in the case of not being direct productive causes. The faculty does not produce consciousness simultaneously; it is an establishing cause, which can arise simultaneously; thus we know that direct productive causes arise at different times. Now we explain: This text is based on productive and non-productive causes. Productive causes are causes like the seed producing the sprout, explaining simultaneity; if one does not say productive cause, then it is at a different time. Here, calling it an establishing cause means it is an empowering condition (adhipati-pratyaya), not a directly productive causal condition (hetu-pratyaya); what is to prevent the cause and effect of an empowering condition from arising simultaneously? Hence the text below states that even if one has one's own seed, without this support, consciousness would not arise. Its productive cause is indeterminate, because seeds producing seeds occur at different times. As in the preceding fifth fascicle of the *Maulī Bhūmi*, if it arises from a homogeneous, different thought-moment, it does not at that very moment produce an actualized, heterogeneous state; hence they arise simultaneously. Master Jayasena's explanation of these seven meanings of seeds and the text on simultaneous seeds is as distinguished under the four characteristics. Here, the Sautrāntikas hold that cause and effect arise [at different] times; the *Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya* details their objections extensively, as in the three rescues.