abhedamanumanyante katham adhvasu vastunaḥ / tā abhūtvā bhavantyaś ca naśyantyaś ca tadātmikāḥ //
How can they accept non-difference between the entity and the states in the time-periods? For these [states], having [previously] not existed, come into being and [then] perish—how can they be identical with it [i.e., the entity]?