bhavatu cāvasthābhedaparakalpanā, tathāpi viruddhadharmādhyāso na parihṛtaeva, tathā hi vastu madhyāvasthāyāṃ kiṃ svarūpeṇa kārakamāhosvit pararūpeṇa yadi svarūpeṇa tadeva svarūpam anyoyor api daśayor atītānāgatāvasthayor astīti katham asya kārakasvabhāvasya kriyākriyābhraṃśau syātām /
Even granting the assumption of non-difference of states [from substance], the attribution of contradictory properties is still not avoided. For [consider]: is the substance in the middle [present] state active through its own form or through another form? If through its own form, then since that same form exists in both other conditions — past and future states — how could this actively-natured [entity] lose and gain activity?