Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c19.s1.9

c19.s1.9

The *Mīmāmsaka's* answer to the above is as follows: [*Rjuvimālā*, p. 191]:—All this argumentation may be very soul-satisfying. But what has got to be explained is—how is it that the entire World of Composite Things becomes dissolved all at once simultaneously. At the present time we find that while one thing is coming into existence, another is disappearing; when such is the fact of common experience, who can deny the beginningless tradition of usage among experienced people? Then again, if the ordinary Intelligent Beings—the ordinary Souls—are unable to control Destiny, by reason of their being non-cognisant of their own Destiny,—then how can an entirely distinct Soul (the Super-Soul, God) be the Controller? The absence of the knowledge of the Destiny of Souls would be there in His case also. Specially because the idea is that all Cognition (knowledge of things—) proceeds from Mind-Soul contact through Sense-object—