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If it exists, it is in the nature of permanence.
In the context of the scripture, just as the stability of the subject matter is essential for realization, the stability of the perceiving self (the soul) is also necessary. Only when both the inert and sentient entities remain unaffected can the various manifestations in this world, which are a mixture of both, never arise. Therefore, the Jain philosophy considers the consequential permanence as consistent with reasoning. Now, by a different explanation, it describes the permanence of the previous stated reality.
The absolute reality of permanence does not deviate from the nature of the object, hence it is eternal. The existence of production, consumption, and persistence is the nature of the object itself. This essence is called reality. The essence is eternal, meaning it remains unchanged across all three times (past, present, future). It is not the case that in some things or in the essence itself, production, consumption, and persistence may exist at times and sometimes not. At every moment, the three aspects—production and others—must inevitably occur, this is the eternity of reality.
Not abandoning its own nature is the persistence of all entities, and at each moment, different results arise or get destroyed, which corresponds to production and consumption for them. The cycle of persistence and the three products is always visible in the essence alone.
This formula indicates that at any time, no part is ever made free or lost from this cycle, as shown in this eternal formula. In the previous formula, 4-15.