na cāyamanaikāntikaḥ, yato vartamānatvanivṛttau naṣṭājātānāṃ sarvasāmarthyaviyogitvaṃ prasajyeta, ākāśāmbhoruhavat
And this [reason] is not inconclusive, since if there were absence of presentness, it would follow that destroyed and unborn [things] would lack all capacity, like a sky-lotus.