成唯識論演祕 5.391

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問：《瑜伽》第六云：謂或依三品靜慮起宿住念或依天眼，不言劫數，《顯揚》、《梵網》亦然。按《長阿含》云：或有沙門、婆羅門等，以三昧力能憶四十八成壞劫事，其中眾生不增、不減，常聚不散，第四直以捷疾智見，說一切常，何乃不同？

Question: Yogācārabhūmi, fascicle 6, says: 'It means either relying on the three grades of dhyāna to give rise to recollection of past abodes, or relying on the divine eye,' without mentioning the number of kalpas; the Prakaraṇāryavācā and Brahmajāla-sūtra are also like this. But according to the Dīrgha-āgama: 'There are śramaṇas, brāhmaṇas, and so forth who, through the power of samādhi, can recollect matters across forty-eight kalpas of formation and dissolution, where sentient beings within them neither increase nor decrease, permanently gathered and not scattered; the fourth directly takes swift intellectual vision and declares that everything is eternal.' Why are they so different?