起信論疏筆削記 13.37

13.37

Treatise: "Because there is avidyā..." Second, specifically explaining the meaning of perfuming, in three parts: first, avidyā perfuming tathatā. Commentary: "Fundamental..." Because it attaches to the real, it is not branch-and-clover; the Benye jing says: "That which arises from delusion regarding the supreme truth is called innate affliction." This is precisely this avidyā. "Perfuming" (xunxi) should properly be called habitual perfuming (xixun), in order to contrast with supporting perfuming below. Were it not so, how could it constitute an explanation? Treatise: "Through perfuming..." is the efficacy of the perfuming of avidyā. Although tathatā is a pure dharma, because it is perfumed by the defiled dharma of avidyā, it arouses the deluded mind; as the Laṅkāvatāra says: "Inconceivable perfuming and transformation are the cause of the manifesting consciousness," and so forth.