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## Karika 54:
**If there is no cause for the Devagama, which occurs spontaneously, then for whom do the causes (violent, non-violent, and the eightfold path leading to liberation) operate?**
They answer this question by saying that the causes operate for the production of dissimilar effects. But this solution is not correct; because the operation of causes is the source of both destruction and production, and the source is inseparable from its dependent, not different. This is because there is no difference between them. Just as there is no difference in the operation of causes in the case of inseparable substances. The operation of causes is not different for the inseparable substances like the Shinsapa and the tree, and the knowledge of painting and the blue, etc., colors. One group of causes leads to their self-realization. In reality, the destruction of the previous form is the production of the subsequent form. Therefore, the cause of both is the same material, not different. Otherwise, the Vaisheshika doctrine would be relevant. How surprising it is that the cause of destruction is not different from the cause of the production of dissimilar effects, so it is accepted as causeless, but the cause of production is not different from the cause of destruction, so it is not considered causeless! Therefore, since there is no difference between destruction and production, both should be considered caused or uncaused. It is not logical to consider one uncaused and the other caused.
**The aggregates, etc., do not become the cause of origination, existence, and destruction, because they are continuous and uncreated. Their origination, existence, and destruction are not like the horn of a rhinoceros.** (54)
(When the momentary, absolute Buddhists accept the coming together of causes for the beginning of a dissimilar effect, this question arises...)