成唯識論了義燈 4.91

4.91

From "If in the state of mastery" onward, it refutes and overturns the preceding three states. The words "state of mastery" refute the first state. This master's intention is: he means that in the state of mutual functioning, one continuously cognizes objects for the most part. This is intended to refute the prior [claim that] when the six sense-dust objects arrive, the consciousnesses do not arise concurrently because they immediately fade away within a single kṣaṇa. In the state of mutual functioning, as when the visual consciousness arises, even if other objects exist, it can also cognize them. Why should it rely on other consciousnesses, such that the visual consciousness would be interrupted? Question: For Master Dharmapāla and others, by means of a mind of what nature and realm does one emerge from the attainment of cessation? Answer: Śrāvakas of vast wisdom and bodhisattvas with mastery emerge according to whichever realm or plane, by means of an expedient wholesome mind; if relying on their own plane, it also includes innate [wholesomeness]. For those who have not fully transcended [the stages], it is according to what is appropriate. Or they rely on an expedient wholesome mind of another plane. If they have not transcended at all, they emerge solely relying on an expedient mind of their own plane, because they enter relying on an expedient.