Hence the Buddhistic view is incorrect, unreasonable and inadmissible. Even the passing of cause into effect in a series of successive states like nescience, etc., cannot take place unless there is a coordinating intelligence. The Buddhists say that everything has only a momentary existence. Their school cannot bring about the simultaneous existence of two successive moments. According to the Buddhistic view, salvation or freedom is attained when ignorance is destroyed.
Ignorance is the false idea of permanency in things which are momentary.
But both the alternatives are defective. Because this annihilation of ignorance cannot be attained by the adoption of penance or the like, because the means like every other thing is also momentary according to the Buddhistic view and is therefore, not likely to produce such annihilation. Annihilation cannot take place of its own accord, for in that case all Buddhistic instructions, the disciplines and methods of meditation for the attainment of salvation will be useless. The Buddhists do not recognise the existence of Akasa. They regard Akasa as a non-entity.