宗鏡錄 74.41

74.41

答。此但是一類有情同業者。合託此。為增上緣而受生。即不是變作多蟲。若不爾者。犯有情界增過。

Answer: This is merely a class of sentient beings with common karma who ought to rely on this as an augmenting condition to receive birth; it is not that [the single creature] transforms into many worms. Were it not so, one would commit the error of increasing the realm of sentient beings.