大乘起信論廣釋卷第三．四．五 4.24

4.24

[Treatise:] Furthermore, there are four [kinds of phenomena that perfume and produce pure and defiled phenomena without interruption.]
[Commentary:] Within the gate of arising and ceasing, of the two divisions, the preceding has already explained the arising of defilement and purity, directly concluding the explanation of the causal and conditional characteristics of this mind's arising and ceasing within the establishment [of the thesis], elaborating the preceding meaning that this consciousness can subsume all phenomena. Next, it analyzes how defilement and purity mutually support each other, re-clarifying the meaning that it can generate all phenomena. Herein there are four: first, briefly stating the number of perfumings; second, listing the names of defiled and pure perfumings; third, elaborating the meaning of defiled and pure perfumings; fourth, clarifying whether the two perfumings are exhaustible or inexhaustible. This is the first. Because defiled phenomena are uninterrupted, there are ordinary beings of the defiled six destinies. Because pure phenomena are uninterrupted, there are noble ones of the undefiled three vehicles.