Sūtra 2.2.19Madhva · 2.2.20

Madhvaon Brahma Sūtra 2.2.19

Dvaita Vedānta

Numbered 2.2.20 in this text

Sūtra

उत्तरोत्पादे च पूर्वनिरोधात्

uttarotpāde ca pūrvanirodhāt

Sūtra translation

And because the effect being produced, the cause ceases to exist. (Otherwise the first principles of the system would be contradicted).

As the cause ceases to exist when it has produced its effect, it cannot be said to produce special effects again ; (for the energy and essence of the cause are used up in the production of the correlative effect; or when the body of not-inhering atoms has produced its effect, viz., the aggre- gate of inhering atoms, the same cause, vis., the not- inhering atoms cannot again become the cause of other effects).