成唯識論演祕 4.82

4.82

Asaṅga's root treatise is as clarified in the Commentary; Asabhāva's explanation will now also be briefly recounted. 'Counteracting afflictions and so on' refers, for example, to the initial stream-enterer fruit and path: when the path of counteraction against the afflictions abandoned by seeing arises, all other worldly consciousnesses have already ceased. At that time, if one were apart from the ālaya-consciousness, where would all the dormant tendencies of the afflictions abandoned by cultivation abide? It would not be reasonable for the counteracting consciousness to carry those seeds. 'Because this counteracting consciousness is liberated by nature' means that its nature is utterly pure. 'It does not coexist with the afflictions' because the counteractor and the countered are mutually contradictory, just like light and dark. 'Again at a later time' refers to the stage of the path of cultivation after the path of seeing; the remaining text is easily understood.