So we may say that words are significant symbols. This capacity of words to mean their respective objects is called their śakti or potency, and it is said to be due to the will of God.52 That a word has a fixed and an unalterable relation to certain things only, or that this word always means this object and not others, is ultimately due to the Supreme Being who is the ground and reason of all the order and uniformity that we find in the world.
