唯識二十論述記 2.153

2.153

Commentary: Since the relied-upon object is a single thing, the relying water insects should not be tiny. Those tiny insects and the coarse, large things rely on a single support and pervade that support; therefore, the relying and the relied-upon would both be equal in size. The older translation stated: "The most minute water insect, being identical to the large form, should not be visible." What it called "form" is form as shape and size. If the tiny water insect does not pervade the support, so that their sizes are not equal and it can be seen as minute, then the support is not pervaded, and hence it is not one. Just as it is said that if a paramāṇu has different spatial divisions in six directions, how could it become one? One should frame an inference: Tiny water insects and the like relying on water without separation, as relying things, should be equal to the size of their support; because you hold the support to be one; just like the form of a single support of unseparated crystal. Furthermore, another inference should be: Tiny water insects and the like relying on water without separation should not be difficult to see; because you hold the water to be one; just like the water without separation. In this, regarding the inferences stated above, since the text of the treatise is concise and implicit, they are established only through rigorous reflection; having avoided faults in the thesis, reason, and example, yet fearing excessive length, they cannot be fully articulated here; those skilled in Buddhist logic (hetuvidyā) will naturally understand them in detail. However, it is also not strictly necessary to construct these inferences; simply querying them according to the reasoning of the treatise also does not violate reason.