Establishment of Brahman 3.93

3.93

na smaryamāṇasya vartamānapramāṇasaṃbandhaḥ /
nanu smaryamāṇe vināśasaṃbhavānnaiva ‘asti'; iti vyavahāraḥ /
satyam /
‘nāsti'; ityapi nāsti /
yadi vartamānapramāṇayogaḥ sattā tadviparyayo 'sattā, ‘nāsti'; ityeva syāt na ca ‘asti'; iti /
tasmādanye sadasattve /

That which is remembered has no connection with a present means of valid cognition.
If it is objected that regarding what is remembered there is no linguistic and practical usage “it exists” because destruction is possible,
true;
neither is there [the usage] “it does not exist”.
If conjunction with a present means of valid cognition were existence and its opposite non-existence, there would only be [the usage] “it does not exist”, and not “it exists”.
Therefore, existence and non-existence are different [from that].