vyatireke 'pi sthiteḥ sthātus tena na kiñcitkṛtam arthāntarabhūtāyāḥ sthiteḥ karaṇāt
Even if subsistence were different from the subsistent, nothing would be done by that [cause] in [the subsistent], because it would [only] produce the subsistence which is [ex hypothesi] something different