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## Translation:
**Verse 54**
Thus, this living being, undergoing transformation through five states, sometimes experiences the destruction of its existence in the form of a human being, etc., due to the influence of a single, finite state. And sometimes, it experiences the creation of its existence in the form of a god, etc., due to the influence of another, infinite state. This seems to contradict the previously mentioned aphorism, "There is no destruction of the existent, nor creation of the non-existent." Because, according to the **dravyaarthika** (substance-based) interpretation, there is no destruction of the existent, nor creation of the non-existent. However, according to the **paryayarthika** (modification-based) interpretation, there is destruction of the existent and creation of the non-existent. This is not contradictory because, just as we see the impermanence of waves in the ever-present water, so too, the destruction and creation of existence are seen in the context of the ever-present living being.