Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c19.10.2

c19.10.2

This manifestive agency consists in the Effort put forth by the man who utters the Word. The Logician regards this Effort as the *Cause* producing the Word; but in reality, it is only a force or agency that serves to *manifest* to our Consciousness the Word that is already in existence, but imperceptible. And as these Efforts may be many, there need be no incongruity in the same Word being uttered, and heard, by several persons; whenever the manifestive agency is present and active the Word will become manifested and heard. Hence if there are several men putting forth the Effort for uttering a Word, it is only natural that there should be several manifestations of the Word. That it is the same Word that is cognised in each of these cases is proved by our direct Cognition of all of these as one and the same. And this is another reason for regarding the Word as *Eternal*. The Effort put forth by the speaker is not in itself sufficient to account for the Cognition of the Word; and in that case we could not account for the non-cognition of the Word by the deaf. In fact, the Effort tends to manifest the Word only through certain effects that it produces in the auditory organ of the person standing by.