If we accept time as the cause of happiness and distress, that experience still cannot apply to the spirit soul, since time is a manifestation of the Lord’s spiritual potency and the living entities are also expansions of the Lord’s spiritual potency. Fire does not burn its own flames or sparks, nor does the cold harm its own snowflakes. The jīva is transcendental and beyond the experience of material happiness and distress. At whom, therefore, should one become angry? If time is the cause of suffering, what is the role of the jīva? Jīva is non-different from time, since the jīva is an aṁśa of Brahman, and time and Brahman are one. The source of the aṁśa should not afflict the aṁśa. An example is given. Fire does not harm its sparks and cold does not harm snow flakes. Therefore at whom should one become angry? There is no duality of happiness and suffering for the jīva who is beyond māyā by his svarūpa (parasya). Thus the six proposed causes of happiness and distress have been rejected.