To explain how the position of self-production conflicts with reason, it was said, ‘What is produced, produced once more – that makes no sense.’
Immediately following this assertion, logical reasoning is supplied:
To think that what’s produced is then produced again
Would mean that sprouts and such could never be procured.
If one claims that seeds already produced are reproduced, does that imply that its production must stop for the sprout to be produced? What is there to prevent it being produced yet again? The consequence would be that sprouts, stalks, buds and so on would never be produced. Furthermore,
The seed would be produced until the end of time –
… for the very reason already given. If one then thinks, ‘When the conducive conditions such as water, time and so on, are present for the production of a sprout, the seed will transform and the sprout be produced; and since the presence of that agent, the sprout, opposes it, the seed will then be destroyed. Therefore, the mentioned faults do not apply here. And since the seed and the sprout are not really different, it is not the case that it is not produced from self.’ This is untenable, because
How could what will destroy it ever come to be? (6.9)
Since seed and sprout are not really different, it is illogical that the sprout could destroy it – they are thought to be ‘alike in own identity’.
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
