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Comm. NT: 23.
Magganiddesakathāvaṇṇanā

“Those who hold that there is an Overlord (Omnipotent Being) as reason say, ‘An Overlord (issara) makes the world occur, prepares it, halts, it, disposes of it.’
Those who hold that there is a Basic Principle as reason say, ‘The world is manifested from out of a Basic Principle (padhāna), and it is reabsorbed in that again.’
Time it is that creates beings, Disposes of this generation;
Time watches over those who sleep; To outstrip Time is hard indeed
- those who hold the theory of Time say.
Those who hold the theory of Nature (sabhāva—individual essence) say, ‘The world appears and disappears (sambhoti vibhoti ca) just because of its nature (individual essence), like the sharp nature (essence) of thorns, like the roundness of wood-apples (kabiṭṭha = Feronia elephantum), like the variedness of wild beasts, birds, snakes, and so on.’
The word, ‘etc.’ refers to those who preach fatalism and say, ‘The occurrence of the world is due to atoms. All is due to causes effected in the past. The world is determined, like drilled gems threaded on an unbroken string. There is no doing by a man’;
It is by chance that they occur, By chance as well that they do not;
Pleasure and pain are due to chance, This generation [lives] by chance;
- and to those who preach liberation by chance.
“‘Taking final release to be in the immaterial world” like that of Rāmudaka, Āḷāra (see MN 26), etc., or ‘in a World Apex (World Shrine—lokathūpika)’ like that of the Nigaṇṭhas (Jains).
And by the word, ‘etc.’ are included also the preachers of ‘Nibbāna here and now’ as the self’s establishment in its own self when it has become dissociated from the qualities (guṇa) owing to the non-occurrence of the Basic Principle (padhāna, Skr. pradhāna—see the Sāṃkhya system), and being in the same world as, in the presence of, or in union with, Brahmā”

пали	Samudayañāṇaṃ issarapadhānakālasabhāvādīhi loko pavattatīti akāraṇe kāraṇābhimānappavattaṃ hetumhi vippaṭipattiṃ.
khantibalo	Знание причины страдания предупреждает принятие ложных теорий о причине, которые возникают в виде нахождения причины, там где её нет, например "Мир возник благодаря Творцу, благодаря базовому принципу, времени, природе".
Nyanamoli thera	and knowledge of origin forestalls wrong theories of cause that occur as finding a reason where there is none, such as “The world occurs owing to an Overlord, a Basic Principle, Time, Nature (Individual Essence),” etc.;23