yadi bhavatā teṣāṃ sthirarūpatāṅgīkriyate tadārthakriyāsāmarthyamapi nāṅgīkartavyam tatra kramayaugapadyayogasya tadvyāpakasyābhāvāt /
If you accept their permanent nature, then [their] causal efficacy cannot be accepted, because succession and simultaneity, which are pervaders of that [causal efficacy], are absent there.