And because in either case there is a difficulty.

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21. (To suppose that the cause having ceased to exist y the effect comes into being would be contradicting a fundamental principle; otherwise, (there would be) continuity of effect or simultaneousness (of cause and effect).

If it be said that when the cause has ceased to exist, he effect is produced, it would be a contradiction to one of the fundamental assumptions (of the system) that the cause necessarily exists while yet the effect takes place; (and it would be absurd to say that a particular is the effect of something that has ceased to be, i.e., effect has been produced by what has ceased to exist). Or if it be said that at the time when the effect is being produced the cause exists, there being no reason to suppose that the production of the effect is the destruction of the cause which has existed in the second moment along with the effect, there would result twofold absurdity. First, as the cause must exist in the third and subsequent moments there being nothing to destroy it, it must every moment be producing fresh effects which in their turn produce other effects for ever according to the fundamental principle that the cause existing the effect must be produced. Thus there would be an endless production of effects. Secondly the cause and effect existing in the same moment, may both become at once the cause of other effects, and all the causes and effects would have a simultaneous existence.

(In the following Sutra, the cessation of the effects is also refuted).

22. Both kinds of cessation or (destruction) cannot be established, — (lit. the destruction which is perceived or un-perceived), for (the production of effect by the cause which exists) is not interrupted.

According to the first principle of the system that the cause existing, the effect is necessarily produced, it is not possible to admit that the annihilation of the cause takes place, which is at once final, i.e., encompasses the cause and the whole series of its effects) and not final, (i.e., leaves undestroyed some links behind it).

Supposing that the principle the cause existing, the effect necessarily follows, is invariable, the effect must always exist and consequently the distinction of cause and effect would cease to be. If the rule were not invariable, there might not be the production of any effect at all.

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