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If there is self-time statement authority, then who can experience the happiness and sorrow known by oneself - this is a matter of contemplation. If it is said that this experience of happiness and sorrow is the subject of the knowledge skandha, then it does not seem appropriate to state so because the knowledge skandha is also momentary - the moment is permanent. Knowledge, being extremely subtle, cannot experience happiness and sorrow. (There is a great difference between the substance that acts and the substance that receives its fruit. They are very consistent with each other. This being so, the two defects of Kritnash and Akritagam, which have been discussed earlier, come into your opinion. If you say that the knowledge lineage - the thread or sequence of knowledge is one, therefore the knowledge lineage that acts is the same one that enjoys its fruit, therefore there are no defects of Kritnash and Akritagam, it is not consistent - it is not logical. Therefore, no fruit is produced from that knowledge lineage. If it is said that the former substance, in the former moment, destroys itself by basing or establishing its desire in the latter substance, in the latter moment, then as it has been said - the fruit is realized in the same knowledge lineage in which the karma desire is present or situated - the fruit is produced in the same. For example, the fruit is produced in the cotton that has redness. Here also, the option arises that whether that desire is separate from the moments, from the momentary substances, or is inseparable. If it is separate, then the desire cannot produce the desire. That desire cannot desire that momentary substance. If it is inseparable, then like the moment, it too will be destroyed in a moment. Therefore, if there is no soul, no existence, then there can be no enjoyment of happiness and sorrow, but the reality is that happiness and sorrow are experienced in this world, therefore the existence of the soul is definitely proved. If there is no soul, then after experiencing the five objects of smell, form, taste, touch and sound, I have known all five objects, this collective knowledge is not obtained because the knowledge of each sense does not go to another place or to the object of another sense. If it is said that the collective knowledge of all five objects is obtained simultaneously by the Alaya-vijnana, then by saying so, you have accepted the soul by another name. There is also an Agam-shastra text in the Buddhist Agamas that advocates the soul. For example, on one occasion, when a thorn pricked Buddha's foot, when the monks asked - why did this happen, then he says that eighty-four kalpas ago, I injured a man with a weapon with a sharp point, O monks! This thorn is stuck in my foot as a result of that karma. It has also been said - the very cruel, merciless or ruthless karma done by humans becomes lighter by self-reproach or self-criticism. By publishing them - by telling them openly in front of everyone, by repenting and repenting for them, by not doing them again, they are completely eradicated or destroyed.
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To prove that substance is momentary, the Buddhists said that the substance that is produced from its causes, whether that substance is produced eternally or impermanently, it is not appropriate to raise such an option because the substance that is eternal is free from production and destruction. It is neither produced nor destroyed. It remains stable - always in one form and is of one nature. Therefore, the business of causes cannot happen in it. It is unconnected with causes, therefore eternity
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