0089 Verse 101-102

Original

इहोच्यते तयोरेकक्रियाकाले समस्ति किम् ।
तदन्यकार्यनिष्पत्तिसामर्थ्यं यदि वा न तत् ॥ १०१ ॥
यद्यस्ति सर्गकालेऽपि द्वयमप्यपरं भवेत् ।
एवमन्यस्य सद्भावे द्वयमन्यत्प्रसज्यते ॥ १०२ ॥

ihocyate tayorekakriyākāle samasti kim |
tadanyakāryaniṣpattisāmarthyaṃ yadi vā na tat || 101 ||
yadyasti sargakāle’pi dvayamapyaparaṃ bhavet |
evamanyasya sadbhāve dvayamanyatprasajyate || 102 ||

The answer to this is as follows at the time that the two are performing one act (of creating or maintaining or dissolving),—is their capacity to perform the other acts present? or is it not present?—If it is present, then at the time of creation, the other two acts also should come about;—thus whenever any one of the acts would be there, the other two would have to be there!—(101-102)

Kamalaśīla

The term ‘tayoḥ’, ‘the two’, stands for Primordial Matter and God;—at the time of performing one act;—i.e. from among the three acts ofcreating, maintaininganddissolving,—at the time that any one is being done, is their capacity to do the other two acts present in them or not?—These are the two alternatives. If the capacityisthere, then, inasmuch as at the time ofcreating, their Cause would be present in its untrammelled form, the other two acts—ofmaintaininganddissolving—should also come about, just like the act ofcreating; so that at the time that a thing would bemaintained in existence—its creationanddissolutionalso should be there! And at the time ofdissolution, there should be itsmaintained existenceandcreation! This certainly cannot be right. Because when the three conditions are mutually nugatory (and incompatible) it is not possible that they should co-exist in the same object.—(101-102)