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Āptamīmāmsā
From the point of view of modes, the three characteristics (origination, destruction and permanence) are mutually different from one another and are also different from the substance. From the point of view of substance, these three (origination, destruction and permanence) are not perceived separately from the substance. Hence these are not different.
Origination, destruction and permanence, mutually irrespective, become non-existent like the 'sky-flower'. Mere origination does not exist because that is without stability and departure; mere destruction does not exist because that is without stability and origination; mere permanence does not exist because that is without destruction and origination – all three, mutually irrespective, are like the 'hair of a tortoise'1.
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1. See Thomas, FW. (1968), "The Flower-Spray of the Quodammodo Doctrine - Śri Mallisena Suri's Syadvada-Manjari", p. 130.
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