Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra: Volume Thirty-Four (51)

Furthermore, there are distinctions. It means correctly understanding that the latent afflictions are subordinate to the latent craving and so on, and that they are the cause of future existence. Also, correctly understanding that the fetters produced by them, as appropriate, are the conditions for accumulation and arising. That is to say, the craving for future existence can attract; thus it is the accumulation of this craving for future existence. Furthermore, it can generate the craving accompanied by delight and greed. This craving accompanied by delight and greed further serves as the condition for various kinds of affection. Thus, relying on the latent craving and so on, and the three kinds of fetters, they can produce future existence and can generate the distinctions of various cravings. Therefore, it is called cause, accumulation, arising, and condition. Thus, the practitioner, through these four aspects, comprehends the characteristic of the truth of the origin.

Explanation: The four aspects have distinctions. Correctly and truly understanding that the latent afflictions are subordinate to the latent craving, and that relying on the latent craving, there are latent afflictions; without craving, there are no afflictions; craving is also the cause of afflictions; cutting off craving means cutting off afflictions, and the latent craving is the cause of birth in the three realms in the future existence. Correctly understanding that the fetters of afflictions produced by the latent craving correspond respectively to the three aspects: accumulation, arising, and condition. The fetters of afflictions can accumulate the seeds of suffering, can make suffering manifest, and are the condition for producing the feeling of suffering.

Because the latent afflictions can attract the craving for future existence, therefore the latent afflictions can accumulate the craving for future existence, and can generate the craving that operates together with delight and greed. This craving accompanied by delight and greed further serves as the condition for various kinds of affection. Thus, relying on the latent craving and so on, and the three kinds of fetters, they can produce the existence of the future life and can generate the distinctions of various cravings. Therefore, it is said to be the four aspects: cause, accumulation, arising, and condition. Because if there is latent craving, there will be fetters of afflictions, fetters of delight, and fetters of greed. With these three kinds of fetters, the existence of the future life will certainly be born; with birth, suffering will be born. Thus, the practitioner, through these four aspects, clearly comprehends the characteristic of the truth of the origin.