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## Chapter 4
54. Both curd and milk are forms of *gorasa*. Even though *gorasa* is one, curd is not milk, and milk is not curd. This distinction is made by practitioners of *vrat* due to their different perceptions of the substance. If there were no three-fold perception, then the rejection of one would not lead to the acceptance of the other.
In this way, the true nature of reality, through its three-fold means, does not become subject to the opposition of eternal, non-eternal, and both. Because in the same object, through the establishment of permanence, it is somehow eternal, and through the establishment of destruction and production, it is somehow non-eternal. Therefore, it is rightly said that the entire group of objects is somehow eternal, somehow non-eternal, somehow both, somehow inexpressible, somehow eternally inexpressible, somehow non-eternally inexpressible, and somehow both inexpressible. And this process of establishing the seven-fold predication should be applied in the same way as it is done for the seven-fold predication of *bhaava* etc. and *eka* etc.
Thus ends the third chapter of the *Devaagamaaptamimaamsa*.
## Chapter 4
**The complete difference of cause and effect, the distinct difference of cause and effect, the difference of quality and qualified, and the difference of the general and the particular, if these are all accepted as absolute.**
61. If (according to the Vaisheshika school, which accepts the absolute difference of cause and effect, the difference of quality and qualified, and the difference of the general and the particular),