瑜伽師地論略纂 4.88

4.88

Regarding the explanation of the six consciousnesses within the link of consciousness, the earlier treatise itself harmonizes this: it is spoken broadly relying on the continuum of the six consciousnesses in a single lifetime, and is not the primary link of consciousness. The Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi states: the consciousness-seed here refers to the cause of the mūlavijñāna; therefore, it takes only the seed of the future eighth consciousness accumulated by volitional formations and names it the link of consciousness. Because it is the first to connect to birth and is the total maturation, the other consciousnesses are not said to be the entity of the link of consciousness. This is exclusively seeds and does not include active states. Regarding the statement here that the fruit-consciousness produced by seeds is the entity of the link of consciousness, and the Daśabhūmika-sūtra saying: just as ignorance has a seed-time and a fruit-time, so it is for consciousness and the others—the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi harmonizes this by saying: it is either said to have active states relying on the future, for in the causal phase there is definitively no meaning of active states; hence it speaks of consciousness and name-and-form acting as mutual conditions upon first entering the mother's womb and so forth, yet this is based on their future arising, and they are not the primary seeds.