大乘起信論義疏 2.10

2.10

From here below, third, explains the meaning of perfuming between the true and the deluded. Here there are three parts: first, indicating the substances of the perfuming dharmas; second, from "The meaning of perfuming" below, briefly explaining the meaning of perfuming; third, from "How does perfuming arise defilement" below, extensively revealing the marks of perfuming. "Furthermore, there are four kinds of perfuming": this generally announces the number. "Defiled and pure dharmas arise without interruption": this is the function of perfuming. "Pure dharma" refers to the eighth consciousness. "Defiled cause" refers to the consciousness of ignorance. "Deluded mind": within the seventh consciousness, from the karma consciousness down to continuation, they are collectively named the karma consciousness. "Deluded objects" refers to all deceptive objects arisen from the mind of false discrimination. These four kinds are the substances of the perfuming dharmas. These four are still just like in the Bodhisattvabhūmi: "Thus and truly, ordinary fools do not know, giving rise to eight false discriminations and producing three things." The perfuming of tathatā is like that "thus and truly"; the perfuming of ignorance is like that "ordinary fools do not know"; the perfuming of the deluded mind is like those "eight false discriminations"; the perfuming of deluded objects is like the first deceptive thing among the "producing three things" there.