Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
This Sutra-Kritanga Sutra is also incorrect, because it is observed that the destruction of a pot, etc., occurs immediately after the action of a hammer, etc. Now, it is said, "What is done to the pot, etc., by the hammer, etc.?" This is indeed said, but it is incorrect. For, this which is posited by the two alternatives of "presumption" and "exclusion," has a fault in both sides. Because, in the case of exclusion, how can the hammer, etc., do anything to the pot, etc., since the pot, etc., becomes a skull-like form due to its impermanence, and thus attains that form? And, the presumption-based denial does not make the object, so it is based on the denial of action. What then? Among the four, namely, prior non-existence, destruction-non-existence, and other absolute non-existences, destruction-non-existence is posited here. There, the action of the agents does occur, because that which is posited is not merely non-existence, but a particular state, and since that particular state is of the nature of existence, and since it is active due to the previous instruction, the very production of the skull, etc., is the destruction of the pot, etc., so the destruction is established as having a cause. Moreover, it is to be understood that destruction is caused by the fact that it occurs sometimes. For the sake of the arrangement of objects, and for the sake of the arrangement of words, the four types of non-existence are to be accepted. It is said, "The object and the material are without beginning, when prior non-existence is destroyed, and when destruction-non-existence is destroyed, it goes to infinity." "That which is all-pervading is one, by the exclusion of others, etc." Thus, since the momentary is incapable of being examined, the side of impermanence of transformation is better. And thus, the true self is the transformer, the support of knowledge, the one who undergoes change, different from the elements in some way, united with the body, not different from others due to the continuity of others, and also having a cause, not a hell-being, an animal, a human, or a god, because it is being transformed by the karma that produces these states, and because it is of the nature of a synonym. Thus, the eternal doctrine is also caused by the non-destruction of the nature of the self. And since the self is established as being distinct from the body, "The body is only the four elements, this is the raving of a madman, it should be ignored." Enough of this discussion. ||18||