apica sadāvasthitatve saṃskārāṇāṃ hetuphalayor abhāvāt duḥsamudayasatyābhāvaḥ, tadabhāvānnirodhamārgayor api, tataś ca satyacatuṣṭayābhāvāt parijñāprahāṇasākṣātkriyābhāvanā na yujyante, tadabhāvāc ca phalasthānāṃ pratipannakānāṃ ca pudgalānām abhāva iti sakalam eva pravacanaṃ nirudhyata iti nātītādivastujātakalpanā sādhvī //
Moreover, if the saṃskāras were permanently existent, there would be no cause and effect, [hence] no truth of suffering and origination; and from their absence [there would be] no [truth of] cessation and path; and thus due to the absence of the four truths, knowledge, abandonment, realization and cultivation would not be possible; and due to their absence, there would be no pudgalas who have attained the fruits or are approaching them, thus the entire teaching would be invalidated - therefore the conception of past etc. as real entities is not tenable.