 So, Śāntarakṣita might argue that love and hatred are just as much part of a “chain of cognitions” that is without beginning and end as all other cognitions. The reason why he postulates the existence of this eternal “chain of cognitions” is the argument that no cognition could be caused by anything other than a previous cognition and hence there cannot be a first cognition for anything we call a particular being. If there was a first cognition for a particular being then, according to Śāntarakṣita (TS 1878–1885), there would be five options: i) the first cognition does not have a cause; ii) it is produced by an eternal cause; iii) it is eternal and unchanging; iv) it is caused by another substance; and v) it is caused by a cognition “from another chain”.