成唯識論述記 2.435

2.435

The Commentary states: This directly objects, saying: Just as those sounds of strings and pipes, though possessing modulations, cannot produce words and so forth, so too should the modulations upon this sound of speech be analogous. The formal argument is: 'Your internal modulated sound cannot produce real words; because it is a sound modulation; just like the sound of strings and pipes.' Furthermore, if modulations upon speech sound could produce words, while string and pipe modulations cannot produce words, then for me it is likewise: modulations upon the sound of speech can signify meaning, while modulations upon strings cannot signify, being similar to producing words. The text says, 'Then, like those sounds, these should not separately produce words and so forth' because the other school accepts that modulations upon strings do not separately produce words; this argues provisionally from the other school's perspective, making the analogy equivalent, and below, our own correct thesis will be presented.