दीपचक्षुः क्रमफलदर्शनात्तदबाधकम् ।
भावे कथं विनाशित्वं स्याद्विना कारणान्तरम् ॥४९॥
dīpacakṣuḥ kramaphaladarśanāttadabādhakam |
bhāve kathaṃ vināśitvaṃ syādvinā kāraṇāntaram
Lamp and eye (yield cognition); and from the seeing of a result in succession, that (instrumentality) is no contradiction (to the self's abiding agency). (But) how could there be perishability in an existent thing without a further cause (to destroy it)?