成唯識論演祕 4.105

4.105

Answer: To highlight the literal text and discard the underlying intent seems like [separating] the Jing and Wei rivers, but if one grasps the principle and unfolds it, they are truly like milk and water. The fundamental intent of that treatise is to fault the absence of the root consciousness, whereby wholesome and defiled [minds] would lack seeds; lacking seeds is another name for lacking a cause, and seizing upon this, it went on to fault the extinction and abandonment of the two destinies. Thus the root treatise says: 'Furthermore, when born in the formless realm, if apart from the retribution-consciousness possessing all seeds, defiled and wholesome minds would lack seeds, and defiled and wholesome minds would lack a support.' Immediately below it faults that the two destinies should be extinguished; therefore we know that the two treatises are in fact identical, and adducing this as proof is without fault.