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The doctrine of self-existence is proven. If non-existent things could be produced, then things like the horns of a donkey or the poison of a snake could also be produced. Therefore, it is said:
(That which is not present in a place or in something cannot be produced from it. When any substance is produced, there is a need for the acceptance of the material cause, without which it cannot exist. For example, if a pot is produced, it needs the material cause in the form of clay. The acceptance of the material cause is necessary for the accomplishment of the work. Without it, the accomplishment of the work is not possible. If the non-existent is produced, then what is the need to accept the material cause? Good things can come out of any object. This is not possible - what is good in it, comes out of it. What can be done from it, can be done from it, what cannot be done from it, cannot be produced from it. Only that which is possible is produced. Every work has its own cause. The work is produced from the cause. From all these expectations, the work is good. For example, the pot is present in the lump of clay because the pot comes into existence only by accepting the lump of clay. If the non-existent is produced, then it can be produced from anywhere, then it is not necessary to accept the lump of clay for it. Therefore, the cause in which the good is present - the work already has its own existence, from it its production is certain. In this way, all the objects of feeling - earth etc. five elements - the sixth soul, all these have eternal existence. These do not become transformed into the form of non-existence and then produced in the form of existence, it is only the form of non-appearance-disappearance, production and destruction. (In the Gita) it is said:
Non-existence does not produce existence, and existence does not produce non-existence. The appointed person has answered this. In it, the aforementioned verse "ko veei" etc. has been discussed - if all substances are accepted as eternal - accepted or attached - they are considered eternal, then the result or principle of action does not occur. If the soul does not have the result of action, then it cannot have karma-bondage, and if there is no karma-bondage, then one cannot experience happiness or sorrow. In such a situation, the fault called "kritnash" arises. That is, the principle that a being has to experience the fruits of its own actions is destroyed. If the production or origin of the non-existent is not accepted, then the five types of motion of the soul, which are said to be born in another existence after abandoning the previous existence, cannot happen. In such a situation, if there is no liberation, then the practice of initiation etc. as a way of accepting a restrained life becomes meaningless. If the soul is considered to be unchanging - stable in one form - without destruction, unproduced - free in nature, then it is not possible for it to be born in the form of a god, human etc. in the divine realm, human realm etc. Due to eternity, there is no forgetfulness, due to which the origin of knowledge like caste-memory is not possible. Therefore, considering the soul as eternally separate is inconsistent - untrue. What is said that only the good is produced - to say so is also untrue, inappropriate, if it exists completely in the form of good, then how can the situation of its production or origin arise? Production is of that which does not exist. If there is production or origin, it cannot be completely good. Therefore, it is said:
Until the substances are not produced, they cannot have qualities and names. For example, until the pot is produced, how can the work of bringing water by it happen? Its non-existence
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