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III, 35-37 1 CHAPTER III
( 149 destroyed and shall be dstroyed :—these two sets of speaking show nothing but particularizing that substance from three viewpoints of Time.
The definition of Sat consists of a synthesis of these three viz. origination (Utpāda) destruction, (Nasa) and permanence (Sthiti). The object of the writer here is to point out very clearly that time-limit of Utpāda (origination) is and also is not different from that of Nāśa (destruction) and Sthiti (Permanence). So also a Trinity namely Utpadāda, Nāśa and Sthiti is and also is not different from Sat (Abstract Entity).
Nature of everything is twofold:- Noumenal and Phenomenal. So the real nature of a thing consists in taking a synthetic view. Some of the Paryāyas (modificatory changes) being mutually contradictory occur successively while some of them being non-contradictory occur simultaneously. With reference to two Kramavarti Paryāya (occurring successively), then, the time of Utpada (origination) and Vināśa (destruction) is, say, one and the same becanse the final time-unit of the former Paryāya marks the beginning of the latter Paryāya. But if with reference to any single Paryāya when we think of Utpada and vināśa we find they are Bhinna-kalina (occurring successively), because the time of the beginning and end of any single Paryaya is different. But a thing remains somewhat stable even when any single Paryāya exhausts giving rise to a new one. Looking from this point of view, Utpāda, Vināśa and
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