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" THE REVEALED WORD."
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be the same as that seen on the previous occasion; as there could be no notion of succession in what is not successive. The effect is always something that follows from, is born of, something else ; when an effect does not come into existence at & certain time, if its cause is there in its efficient state, why should there be delay in the appearance of the effect --Then again, what is eternal does not stand in need of the help of anything; hence it is not possible for the delay to be due to the absence of that help. Hence the Cognitions that would proceed from the Eternal Source should all appear simultaneously.-The argument may be formulated as follows:- When the efficient cause of a certain effect is present, that effect must appear at the time ;-for example, Visual Perception, when the complete set of its causes is present :--the cognitions proceeding from all words, Cow' and the rest, have the complete set of their efficient causes present at all times and under all conditions ;-hence this is a Reason based upon the nature of things.Consequently,-because it is wrong, and because it is associated with Conceptual Content, Recognition cannot be regarded as Perception. All this has been already explained in course of the examination of the Per. manence of things' (2448)
Even Recognition is not found to be present in the same form in all cases. This is what is pointed out in the following -
TEXTS (2449-2452).
THE IDEA THAT THERE APPEARS IN REGARD TO WORD-SOUNDS IS
FOUND TO BE MOSTLY DIVERGENT; AS IT IS OFTEN COGNISED IN SUCH TORMS AS THIS IS SPOKEN BY THE PARROT ' AND 'THIS OTHER IS SPOKEN BY THE Sharikā'.-IY IT IS SAID THAT “THIS IS DUE TO THE DIVERSITY OF THE MANIFESTERS OF THE SOUNDS",-THEN, WE SHALL STATE THE REASONS FOR REJECTING THIS IDEA OF THE
MANIFESTATION' (OF SOUNDS). ON THIS GROUND ALONE, ALL THIS WOULD BE ONE AND THE SAME. HENCE THERE CAN BE NO manifester, AND NO manifested. BECAUSE WHEN THE THING IS ONE AND INDIVISIBLE, THAT FACT PRECLUDES ALL NOTIONS OF DIVERSITY. FURTHER, THERE CAN BE NO DETERMINATION, BASED UPON RECOGNITION, THAT THESE WORDS ARE human' AND 'THOSE OTHERS ARE NOT UTTERED BY MEN :-(2449-2452)
COMMENTARY.
When certain word-sounds are uttered by birds,-like the Parrot, the Sharika and the like, there is always the notion of diversity, as that this is uttered by the Parrot', 'that by the Sharika and so forth; hence Recognition (Word-Sound) does not appear in all cases.
It might be argued that "this notion of diversity, in regard to the utterances of the Parrot, etc. is due to the diversity among the manifesting
