This cannot be upheld, since it contradicts reasoning and scripture. To explain this in terms of reasoning:
If something different could give rise to something else,
Then utter darkness should emerge from tongues of flame.
This is neither observed nor logical, and thus not the case. Hence, it is stated:
That cause and result are different
Would never be tenable.
If cause and result were different,
A cause and a non-cause would be identical.1
Furthermore:
And anything could be produced from everything,
… as any cause and non-cause could lead to the production of any result and non-result. Why is that?
Since in their difference all non-makers are the same. (6.14)
The productive rice seed is just as different from its resultant rice sprout as non-productive fire, charcoal, barley seeds and so on are; and just as the rice sprout is produced from the rice seed that is other, the same could then happen from fire, charcoal, barley seeds and so forth. Also, just as a separate rice sprout arises from a rice seed, so should a pot, a piece of cloth and so forth. This however is not what we see. Hence, this cannot be the case.
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
