Mmgl Annexure Ii (29-3) (B-4) Non-Existent At One Side Expanded To Existent Side To Spread Over Comments

Keep the non-existent at one side, and find another side for the existent to suit everything equally. ‘Sound will appear in the workplace, because it is impermanent'—the impermanency reason to appear in the workplace, it looks like for the sky and lightning, both non-existent; it suits the lightning, but not the sky. It will appear as the existent things like pot will suit at every place, which is a false appearance. It gives room for doubts, ‘Like lightning appears in workplace non-permanently? ' or ‘Like pot appears in workplace non-permanently? '

(b-5) Contributory side expansion
The said reason supports both existent and non-existent, each one supporting one side. ‘Sound is permanent'—this is an existent statement, ‘Because it has no shape.' Here the ‘no shape' becomes a reason for the permanency of non-existent things like sky, which appear to have happened to the sky, but failed to happen in the case of the atom supreme. When it is said that "The existent pot is happy", it does not conform to the reason ‘happy', which has no shape and is not relevant to the pot. So, the existent and non-existent are both applicable simultaneously in this case. How it is? Like the shapeless sky it is permanent, and like happiness it is impermanent. This kind of doubt arises. This is, therefore, called contributory side expansion.
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