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The Tattvarthasutra regards a substance as merely momentary, meaning that it considers each substance to be produced and destroyed moment by moment, and does not hold it to have any stable basis. However, due to the impossibility of eternal nature in the transient results of production and destruction, a contradiction arises. Nonetheless, Jain philosophy does not maintain that any substance is merely a fleeting eternal or merely a resultant eternal; rather, it accepts resultant eternality. As a result, although all beings remain stable in their original nature, changes occur based on causes, leading to production and destruction. Therefore, in regard to each substance, there is no contradiction when considering its fundamental essence (substance) versus its resultant, production, and destruction. Jain philosophy's doctrine of resultant eternality, like that of Samkhya, is not limited to the non-conscious nature; it also applies to the conscious principle.
The primary means of accepting the broad doctrine of resultant eternality is direct experience. Upon close examination, there is no element that is purely non-resultant or merely resultant. All external entities are understood to be resultant eternals. Since all substances are only momentary, the continual production and destruction of new entities in every moment, coupled with the absence of any stable basis, prevents the experience of homogeneity in momentary results from ever occurring. In other words, when an object seen previously is recognized again as "this is that very object," such recognition does not happen in any way, because...