Selected Lectures on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra) (86)

Original text:佛言大王。如是如是。愚夫异生。梦为饥逼。啖其苦味。心生恚恼。造是业行。身三语四。意三种行。造彼业已。即便灭谢。是业灭已。不依东方。南西北方。四维上下。中间而住。最后边际。命根灭时。自分业。报皆悉现前。犹如梦。觉念梦中事。

Explanation: The Buddha said: Great King, it is indeed so. Foolish ordinary beings (pṛthagjana), in a dream being pressed by hunger, eat food of bitter taste, and their minds give rise to anger and vexation, thereby creating such karmic actions—three bodily actions, four verbal actions, and three mental actions. After those karmas are created, they immediately cease and pass away. After those karmas have ceased, they do not abide in the east, south, west, or north, the four intermediate directions, above, below, or in between. But at the final limit, when the life faculty ceases, the karmic retributions of one's own karmas all manifest in front of one, just like awakening from a dream and still recollecting the events within the dream.

Original text:大王。识为其主。业为攀缘。二种相因。初识生起。或趣地狱。或堕傍生。琰摩罗界。及阿修罗。若人若天。初识生已。各受其报。同分心品。相续随转。最后识灭。名为死蕴。最初识起。名为生蕴。

Explanation: Great King, the ālayavijñāna is the master that gives birth to the five-aggregate body of future lives, and the karmic seeds serve as the object condition (ālambana-pratyaya). When these two kinds of causes and conditions come together, the initial consciousness of the next life is born. Sentient beings either proceed to the hells, or fall into the destinies of animals or the realm of Yama (the ghost realm)—the three evil destinies; or they are reborn in the three good destinies: the asura destiny, the human destiny, and the heavenly destiny. After the initial consciousness is born, sentient beings each begin to receive their karmic retribution, and then the consciousness on the same material body continues to run on without interruption. When consciousness ceases at the end of life, the material body becomes a corpse, which is called the aggregates of death; the consciousness that first arises on the material body is called the initial consciousness, and the five aggregates of the material body are called the aggregates of birth.