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TATTVASAÑORAHA: CHAPTER VIIT.
reality, their nnture is entirely different. That is the reason why only one entity becomes the cause of only one other entity, and not everything of everything. Hence there is no force in the objection urged.
Bhavanti', go on coming into existence', -i.e. are produced.-(438)
It has been argued by the opponent (under Text 433, above) that "if the Destruction were without cause, it should come about at the very beginning " this is answered in the following
TEXTS (439-440).
IT IS DESTRUCTION IN THE SHAPE OF TEN BREAKING UP OF THE SERIES WHICH IS WITHOUT CAUSE ; AND THIS DOES NOT COME ABOUT EVEN AT THE END-WHAT IS DENIED IS ITS COMING INTO EXISTENCE IN THAT TORM. AS FOR THE COMING INTO EXISTENCE OF SUCH DISSIMILAR THINGS (SERIES) AS THE Potsherd AND THE LIKE, THIS CERTAINLY HAS A CAUSE; BUT THIS ALSO IS NOT PRODUCED AT THE BEGINNING, BECAUSE AT THAT TIME ITS CAUSE IS
NOT THERE.-(439-440)
COMMENTARY.
Destruction' is of two kinds-(1) in the form of the 'Breaking up of the series, and (2) in the form of the coming into existence of a dissimilar series '-If then what has been urged refers to 'Destruction' in the form of the Breaking up of the series, then that cannot be right; as such
Destruction does not come about even at the end : for the simple reason that it has no form ; then what do you mean when you ask "How does it come about at the end Thus then, inasinuch as we do not admit of its coming into existence at any time, the argument based upon its presence or absence at the beginning or at the end is entirely irrelevant. All that is done by us is that its coming into existence in that form is denied :-*in that form',-i.e. by the appearance of another similar series. When it is said that there is destruction of the Jar', what is meant is that another similar series does not come into existence; and there is no affirmation of anything,
If the 'Destruction' meant by the opponent is that in the form of the coming into existence of a dissimilar series ',--then the fact of its being without cause is one that is not admitted (by anyone): because it is not admitted by any one that the stroke of the Bludgeon produces anything of the nature of a positive entity. That is the reason why it cannot come into existence even at the beginning : As at that time its cause, in the shape of the Bludgeon, is not there.-(439-4-10)
The following Text proceeds to explain the idea of 'antagonism' (relation of Destroyer and Destroyed) among things :
