Verse 321

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation by Ganganath Jha:

ततो निरन्वयो ध्वंसः स्थिरं वा सर्वमिष्यताम् ।
एकात्मनि तु नैव स्तो व्यावृत्त्यनुगमाविमौ ॥ ३२१ ॥

tato niranvayo dhvaṃsaḥ sthiraṃ vā sarvamiṣyatām |
ekātmani tu naiva sto vyāvṛttyanugamāvimau || 321 ||

For this reason it should be admitted, either that there is absolute destruction of all, or that all is permanent (eternal); exclusiveness and inclusiveness could not exist in any single thing.—(321)

 

Kamalaśīla’s commentary (tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā):

Any such comprehensive entity as ‘substance’, cannot be accepted, not only because it is non-different in nature from the ‘successive factors’, but also for the following reason (shown in the next text), it is not perceived apart from the ‘successive factors’ even when the conditions of its perception are present, and hence it should be treated as ‘non-existent.’

This is what is explained in the following—[see verse 322 next]