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## Karika 55, 56] Devagam
**49. If they do not exist, then there is no action for them, so the concept of cause and effect is futile.**
**55.** The fault of both [the eternal and non-eternal] and the inexpressible [as sole realities] lies in their contradiction. The unity of both [eternal and non-eternal] is the hatred of the Syadvada-naya-knowers [i.e., those who reject the theory of Syadvada]. Even in the inexpressible, it is appropriate to speak of the speakable.
**(If the identity of both extremes is accepted, then both eternity and non-eternity will either become eternal or non-eternal; because in the state of identity, the contradictory situation ceases to exist and becomes a single situation. When there is only one extreme, either eternity or non-eternity, then the acceptance of both extremes simultaneously becomes contradictory.)**
**(If, out of fear of the presence of contradiction in the acceptance of both extremes of eternity and non-eternity, the extreme of inexpressibility (unspeakability) is accepted, then that too does not work; because accepting the principle of complete inexpressibility, the Buddhists, who say "the truth is completely inexpressible," face self-contradiction - just as the man who says "I am always silent" faces contradiction; because his saying so contradicts his vow of perpetual silence.)**
**56.** The faultless arrangement of the eternal and momentary extremes is that the eternal is always recognized, not suddenly and without interruption. The momentary is due to the difference in time, and the fault of the wandering of the intellect.