 He resists, however, the application of the principle to a Vedic injunction to perform a sacrifice whose result is supposed to be in the distant future, going to heaven, say, which wouldn’t make sense, the ritualists reason, without elliptical reference to apūrva, a magical “Unseen Force,” adṛṣṭa, that connects the completion of the sacrifice with its goal. According to Gaṅgeśa, no apūrva is thereby referenced (etymologically that which is “not understood before” comprehension of an injunction as applying to oneself, say Mīmāṃsakas) and if there is “Unseen Force” created by a sacrifice or another good work it, like all karma, inheres in the self of the performer, affecting, in particular, his or her next incarnation. Thus again he endorses a doctrine of the Nyāya-sūtra, which also rejects apūrva but accepts karma as popularly understood.