大乘義章 17.27

17.27

次明用惑潤生不同。於彼九品修惑之中，何者現起親潤受生？何者成就資潤受生？隨次論之，所有惑中最上麁品緣中現起親潤受生，餘悉成就資潤受生。據實論之，惑起無序，發業潤生例非一准，惑上中下不可一定。是義云何？於受生時有人鈍根，或覩勝緣起增上結，則用此結親潤受生，中下資助。有人中根，或對中緣起中品結，即用此結親潤受生，上下煩惱成而隨助。有人利根，或逢弱緣起下品結，則用此結親潤受生，上中隨助。上結生者受身必多，中結次少，下結最少。為是須陀九品煩惱雖全未斷，不妨受生多少不定。以是義故，九品惑中應乘斷者亦得現起潤業受生。資助已竟（此二門竟）。

Next, explaining differences in employing afflictions to moisten rebirth. Among those nine grades of afflictions of cultivation, which ones manifest in activity to directly moisten rebirth? Which ones are possessed so as to nourish and moisten rebirth? Discussing them in sequence: the most superior coarse grade among all afflictions manifests in activity in dependence on conditions to directly moisten rebirth, while the remainder are all possessed to nourish and moisten rebirth. Discussing according to actual fact: afflictions arise without fixed order; the generating of karma and moistening of rebirth are not uniform by rule, and the superior, middling, and inferior of afflictions cannot be fixed. What does this mean? At the time of taking rebirth, someone of dull faculties may encounter an intense condition and give rise to an overarching fetter, then employing this fetter to directly moisten rebirth, with middling and inferior ones providing assistance. Someone of medium faculties may face a middling condition and give rise to a middling-grade fetter, then employing this fetter to directly moisten rebirth, with superior and inferior afflictions being possessed and assisting accordingly. Someone of sharp faculties may encounter a weak condition and give rise to an inferior-grade fetter, then employing this fetter to directly moisten rebirth, with superior and middling ones assisting accordingly. Those whose rebirth is produced by superior fetters definitely receive many bodies; those with middling fetters receive fewer; those with inferior fetters receive the fewest. For this reason, although the nine grades of afflictions of a srotāpanna are entirely unsevered, this does not prevent the number of rebirths taken from being unfixed. By this meaning, among the nine grades of afflictions, those that are due to be severed in line can also manifest in activity to moisten karma and receive rebirth. The assistance is completed. (This completes the second sub-section.)