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XXIV. THE COMBINATION OF OPPOSITES INVOLVES NO CONTRADICTION
It has just been said that entity essentially equivocal, as shown by His Holiness, is to be known by the typically wise; and as essential equivocality may through description of the seven-nuance-view be easily deduced, that also has been defined; and seeing therein the entity made residence of contradictory attributes, the maintainers of the unequivocal view, the typically unwise, raise contradictions: their straying from the path of logic, he states - XXIV. Not contradictory, when conditioned by differences of conditions,
in things is non-existence, and existence and unutterability. Simply from not having awoke to this, afraid of contradiction, the stupid fall slain by that unequivocal' view. (195)
In things, in things denoted, intelligent and non-intelligent; non-existence, inexistence; not contradictory, not affected by contradiction; the meaning is: it does not undergo contradiction to actuality (astitva). Not merely is non-existence not contradictory, but also existence and unutterability; existent and unutterable are 'existent-unutterable'): the status of these two is existence-and-unutterability; 'actuality and unutterableness' is the meaning. Those two also are non-contradictory.
As thus: existence is not contradictory to non-existence; unutterability also, consisting of affirmation and negation, has not mutual contradiction. Or else, unutterability does not carry contradiction of utterability. And by this is implied a non-contradiction of the whole sevennuance view to the triad of nuances defined as non-existence, existence and unutterability; because these three are the chief, and the remaining nuances are, as due to combination, simply included in these.
'Surely these attributes are mutually contradictory: so how is the association of them in one entity possible? As to this he states by means of an epithet a reason: when conditioned by differences of conditions. Conditions', delimitants; part-aspects. Their 'difference', diversity; thereby 'conditioned', imparted. This is an epithet of 'non-existence': 'conditioned by differences of conditions', non-existence in existent things is not contradictory; and it is to be joined also with 'existence and unutterability' dividing the compound; when conditioned by differences of conditions, existence and unutterability also are not contradictory.
The intent is this: where two things occur with mutual avoidance, like cold and hot, there is contradiction, defined as non-abiding together. And here it is not so; because existence and non-existence occur without mutual separation. For in a pot, etc., existence does not occur with avoidance of non-existence; because of the consequence of being existent even in the form of another"); and thus other things different from it are purposeless, since through it alone is establishment of the practical efficacies to be yielded by (all) the things in the Triple Universe. Nor does non-existence occur with avoidance of existence, because of non-existence
1) This remark is inserted simply in view of the Sanskrit expression (sad-avacyate), which is a grammatical Compound.
2) If A never is not', then it cannot 'not be' B, and so would 'be' any B.
