起信論疏筆削記 15.7

15.7

三、明利他果，三：初、明用甚深。疏　業用，即不思議業相，微妙難解，心言罔及。不用先謀而後起化，故曰甚深，非作意等。攝論等者，具云：若佛果是無分別智所顯，離分別者，諸佛何得依眾生作利益事，如理不顛倒，無功用作事？故重說偈曰：如摩尼天鼓，無思成自事，如此不分別，種種佛事成。此顯如來三業無功用作事，俱不思議。摩尼，梵語，此云離垢，亦云增長，舊云如意，此喻如來身意二業，若隨其所對，現像不同，即喻佛身業；若隨人所須，出種種物，即喻佛意業也。天鼓則天帝所有，修羅軍來，其鼓音中自然出聲則言賊來，去言賊去，喻佛口業也。此之二物雖有其用，而無思慮，故可喻佛自然之三業爾。成自事者，現像發聲，各隨其用，而辦事業。亦可取珠鼓自事，但喻身口，皆無思慮，同喻意業也。

3. Elucidating the fruit of benefiting others, in three [parts]: first, elucidating the profoundness of the function.
[Commentary:] "Karmic function": this is the mark of inconceivable karma, subtle and difficult to comprehend, beyond the reach of mind and speech. Without needing to plan beforehand and only then initiate transformation, it is therefore called "profound", not being intentional and so forth. "The Mahāyānasaṃgraha and so forth": the full text says: "If the Buddha-fruit is revealed by non-conceptual wisdom and is free from conceptual differentiation, how can the Buddhas rely on sentient beings to perform beneficial acts, in accordance with the principle without inversion, and perform acts without effort? Therefore the verse is spoken again: 'Like a mani jewel and a celestial drum, / Which without thought achieve their own tasks, / Even so, without conceptual differentiation, / Manifold Buddha-tasks are accomplished.'" This reveals that the Tathāgata's three karmas act without effort, and both are inconceivable. "Mani": Sanskrit; here translated as "free from defilement", and also "increasing"; formerly translated as "wish-fulfilling". This exemplifies the Tathāgata's bodily and mental karmas: if according with what is confronted it manifests different images, it exemplifies the Buddha's bodily karma; if according with what people require it produces various objects, it exemplifies the Buddha's mental karma. "Celestial drum": owned by the king of gods; when the asura army comes, the drum naturally produces a sound within saying "the bandits are coming", and when they retreat it says "the bandits are retreating"; this exemplifies the Buddha's vocal karma. Although these two objects have their functions, they are without thought and deliberation; hence they can exemplify the Buddha's effortless three karmas. "Achieving their own tasks": manifesting images and emitting sounds, each according with its function accomplishes tasks. Alternatively, taking the jewel and drum achieving their own tasks to exemplify bodily and vocal [karma] alone, while both being without thought together exemplify mental karma.