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Vada ] Nihnavavāda
:101: all, implied. Adjectives viz first moment, second moment eto. mentioned therein are significant." By the expression that "Nārakas of the first nioment will iaeet destruction," entire destruction of the nārakas is not meant but it only means that the nārakas of the first moment lose the property of being närakas at that time. Similarly those of the second moment lose the property of being närakas at the second moment and so on.
But nārakas would never perish entirely on account of their matter being indestructible, Thus, if the theory of entire destruction is admitted, adjectives such as prathama samaya, dvitiyasamaya eto. would not be justified. If the nārakas that were produced at previous moments had perished entirely along with those moments, how could nārakas of the second moment, and those of the third moment etc. come into existence? So, the adjectives viz prathama samayotpanna ( produced in the first moment) dvitiya samayotpanna (produced in the second moment) eto. would be justified only if the nārakas were taken as the existent beings.
In spite of all this, if you hold the theory of entire destruction, å nāraka produced at the first moment, would perish entirely, and it would not leave any scope for the production of a nāraka of the second moment. And if a náraka perishes entirely with the first moment, that which is produced at the second moment would be definitely different from the nāraka ( itself ), and hence it would never be possible to recognize, a sura, a ghata or a-bhava from it. This proves that adjectives such as prathama samayutpanna, dvitiya samayotpanna eto. could be attributed only to an existing being and to none else.
Thus, the sotra mentioned before, does not, in any way, imply entire destruction of nārakas, at the end of a particular period of time. It is only due to futile embarassment produced in you, on account of your (past) misdeeds, that you are led to hold suoh wrong notions. 100-101 (2895-2396).
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