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## 46 Samantabhadra-Bharati
[Chapter 3 Karma, Antarvyayam, Ajiva, Smriti, and Samadhi]
It is said that destruction is caused by these eight factors. Since it is said to be without a cause, it is as contradictory as saying that the Sugata is both omniscient and not omniscient.
If the Buddhists accept the existence of a cause for the beginning of the transformation of action, then the cause of violence is the violent (killer) and the cause of liberation is the practice of the eight limbs, such as right faith. This cause is the cause of both destruction and production, and therefore it is the support of both. Therefore, it is not different from its support, which is both destruction and production. Just as the blow of a hammer is the cause of the destruction of a pot and the production of shards, so too is the cause of both actions not different. Therefore, just as the cause of the head and the tree is the same, so too is the cause of both actions the same. This is a flaw in the Buddhist view that destruction is without a cause. If there is no cause for destruction, then there is no cause for production either. Because there is no difference between destruction and production from the point of view of action, it is not logical to say that one is without a cause and the other is with a cause.
**Explanation:** The question for the Buddhists is: If destruction is without a cause, ...