大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.61

4.61

論。云何為二至用相應故　釋曰。下釋有二。先未相應。後已相應。此初也。文復三節。初凡夫等約位舉人。以意等者。次辨行劣。凡夫二乘意識熏習。新發意菩薩以意熏習。雖是真如所熏之識。有分別故未契真如。云依信力而修行也。未得己行明未相應。以未證得無分別智。未顯法身。未同佛體。未與諸佛體相應也。以未證得後得智故。未同諸佛起應化身。未與諸佛用相應也。自在業者。即根用也。言修行者。即後智也。後智能起根化用故。名為自在業修行也。

[Treatise:] What are the two? [First, that which is not yet in accord: ordinary beings, the two vehicles, and newly resolved bodhisattvas perfume through consciousness and the mind, and cultivate practice relying on the power of faith; having not yet attained the non-conceptual mind, they are not yet in accord with the substance of the dharmakāya; having not yet attained the cultivation of autonomous activity, they are] not yet in accord with the activity [of the dharmakāya].
[Commentary:] The explanation below has two parts: first, not yet in accord; second, already in accord. This is the first. The text again has three sections: first, "ordinary beings," and so forth, adduces the persons according to their stages. "Through the mind," and so forth, next differentiates the inferiority of their practice: ordinary beings and the two vehicles perfume through phenomenal consciousness; newly resolved bodhisattvas perfume through the mind. Although it is a consciousness perfumed by tathatā, because it possesses conceptualisation it has not yet tallied with tathatā; hence it says they "cultivate practice relying on the power of faith." "Having not yet attained their own practice" clarifies that they are not yet in accord: because they have not yet realised and attained non-conceptual cognition, have not yet revealed the dharmakāya, and are not yet identical with the Buddha's substance, they are not yet in accord with the substance of the buddhas; because they have not yet realised and attained post-attainment cognition, they have not, like the buddhas, generated the responsive and transformative bodies, and are not yet in accord with the activity of the buddhas. "Autonomous activity" refers to the activity of the faculties. "Cultivating practice" refers to post-attainment cognition. Because post-attainment cognition can generate the transformative activity of the faculties, it is called "the cultivation of autonomous activity."