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	Mimamsa
		Mimamsa is a Sanskrit word meaning "investigation, inquiry, discussion." The term was applied to one of the six Hindu philosophical darsanas, viewpoints.
		In this context Mimamsa would have fully meant "the investigation of the proper interpretation of the Vedic texts." The Mimamsa school is better known as the Purva Mimamsa school, meaning the Prior School of Investigation, because it is concerned with the earlier or prior section of the Vedas.
		Mimamsa originated not as a school but as a successor to the ritual Sutra literature, whose purpose was to correctly interpret the Vedas.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/ascetic/mimamsa.html (847 words)

	Mimamsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main objective of the Purva ("earlier") Mimamsa school was to establish the authority of the Vedas.
		The Mimamsa accepted the logical and philosophical teachings of the other schools, but felt that these paid insufficient attention to right action.
		According to the Mimamsa, the very striving for liberation stemmed from a selfish desire to be free.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mimamsa (258 words)

	Mimamsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The main objective of the ("earlier") Mimamsa school was to establish the authority of the Vedas.
		They believed that the other schools of thought, which pursued moksha(release) as their ultimate aim, were not completely free from desire and selfishness.
		At a later stage, however, the Mimamsa school changed its views in this regard and began to teach the doctrines of God and mukti (freedom).
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mimamsa (297 words)

	Madhurima's Page
		Purva Mimamsa is earlier (purva) to Uttara (later) Mimamsa in a logical sense.
		Mimamsa is to investigate Dharma (duty) as given in the Vedas.
		Sabara’s commentary on Mimamsa Sutra is the earliest extant commentary.
	www.geocities.com /fisik_99/philosophy.htm (3386 words)

	Purva-Mimamsa
		Purva Mimamsa or Karma-Mimamsa is an enquiry into the earlier portion of the Vedas, an enquiry into the ritual of the Vedas or that portion of the Vedas which is concerned with the Mantras and the Brahmanas only.
		Vedanta is also called Uttara Mimamsa, "upper or later examination," as distinguished from Purva Mimamsa, which concerned itself solely with the earlier portions of the Veda.
		The earlier Mimamsa (Purva-mimamsa), which explains the ritual meaning of the Vedas, was taught by Vyasadeva’s disciple Jaimini.
	www.experiencefestival.com /purva-mimamsa (1637 words)

	purva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimamsas affirmed that the Vedas were the source of perfect knowledge, and believed that the Vedas had not been composed either by God or by human beings, but rather simply heard by the ancient sages through their advanced powers of perception, and then transmitted orally from generation to generation.
		Mimamsas believed in the existence of the soul, and the necessary connection of actions with their results inherent in the notion of karma, since both of these things were attested in the Vedas.
		The two new ones developed by the Mimamsas were "presumption" (arthapatti) and "knowledge from absence" (abhava), and they justified these additions by claiming that they gave knowledge that could not be subsumed under the existing pramanas.
	www2.carthage.edu /~lochtefe/purva.html (522 words)

	Essays in Life and Eternity by Swami Krishnananda
		The Mimamsa is especially known as Purvamimamsa, or the earlier Mimamsa, to distinguish it from the Uttaramimamsa or the later Mimamsa, known also as the Vedanta.
		The Mimamsa establishes a relation between the sacrifice and the joys of heaven by the proposition that the sacrificial action produces an invisible and subtle potency which does not perish with the deed but continues to exist as a potential force, known as Apurva, until its fruit is reaped.
		The aim of the Mimamsa is attainment of heaven (Svarga), the abode of the gods who are eulogised through the Veda Mantras and propitiated through sacrifices performed by the application of the requisite Mantras or formulae for the invocation of the divinities.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /life/life_29.html (781 words)

	Hindu philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They believed that the other schools of thought, which pursued moksha (release) as their ultimate aim, were not completely free from desire and selfishness.
		The Uttara ("later") Mimamsa school, more commonly known as the Vedanta, concentrates on the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads rather than on the ritualistic injunctions of the Brahmanas.
		The more abstruse Vedanta (meaning literally the end of the Vedas) is the essence of the Vedas, encapsulated in the Upanishads which are commentaries on the four original books (Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hindu_philosophy (1946 words)

	Ethics of Hindu Philosophy by Sanderson Beck
		In Mimamsa the soul is the agent that causes all movement of the body.
		However, in Mimamsa Vedic prayers, rituals, and sacrifices are emphasized as the means of achieving this.
		Mimamsa is based on the revelation in the Vedas, which are considered as eternal as the world.
	www.san.beck.org /EC11-Hindu.html (6835 words)

	Classical Yoga: Yoga as 1 of 6 views
		Mimamsa (literally, "Reflection") is often translated as "The Way of Ritual".
		Thus, the Vedic view that ritual upholds the cosmic order is not merely a poetic statement, but a statement of fact that even the secular sciences of the modern era are beginning to see for themselves.
		From the point of view of Mimamsa, it is a truth that ritual, prayers and sacrifices to the causal reality envisioned as so many gods and goddesses bears auspicious and abundant fruit.
	www.lotus-medicine.com /pages/y-sixviews.html (3775 words)

	Astika Schools Orthodox Schools,
		The Mimamsa school produced the Mimamsa sutra a systematic compilation which was written by Jamini.
		The foundation of Mimamsa philosophy is the doctrine of the self validity of knowledge or svatah pramana.
		The Upanishads from the last par of Vedic literature and so their study is also called Uttara Mimamsa or the later Mimamsa, as opposed to the Mimamsa of Jamini.
	www.indiaprofile.com /religion-culture/astikaschools.htm (1730 words)

	Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
		According to mimamsa, a chodakavakya is indispensible for determining the relationship between the model and the modified sacrifice, and the relationship between the parts and the whole; it helps in determining which actions are parts of a whole and which is the whole of which they are parts.
		But the mimamsa is concerned with the Veda that is deemed eternal and self-existent (and not man-made), that deals with religious matters, cannot be amended or repealed and is to be expounded according to the intent of the Vedic words.
		The application of the mimamsa principles for resolution of doubts and conflicts in statutory interpretation, though, at least as at present advised, appears to be beset with formidable difficulties.
	www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/2004v6a5.htm (7645 words)

	Why I Am Not a Hindu
		Mimamsa or Purva Mimamsa, another orthodox Hindu system is "the outcome of the ritualistic side of the vedic culture".
		The infallibility of the authority of the Vedas, according to Mimamsa, rests on the "fact" that they are not vitiated by any defect to which the work of imperfect persons is liable.
		Mimamsa, which is an orthodox Hindu school of thought, considers attainment of heaven (swarga), instead of moksha, as the highest end of life.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/ramendra_nath/hindu.html (8282 words)

	Philosophy
		Jaimini, a disciple of Vyasa, composed the Sutras of the Mimamsa school, which is based on the ritual sections of the Vedas.
		According to Mimamsa school, Karma or ritual is all-in-all in the Veda.
		The Purva Mimamsa system of philosophy is said to be unsatisfactory and incomplete, in as much as it does not deal with the problem of the Ultimate reality and its relation to soul and matter.
	www.hinduism.co.za /philosop.htm (12343 words)

	Mimamsa Beliefs from the Chapter "Mimamasa - Karmamarga", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		Mimamsa is concerned with the latter, and does not speak of the ultimate blessedness of release from worldly existence.
		Mimamsa has an answer to it: Sandyavandana is not a kamya or optional rite and its non-performance will bring you unhappiness.
		Mimamsa believes that the karma that we " applied for " gives its own reward.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part12/chap9.htm (2718 words)

	Re: Issues in mImAmSA, advaita, dvaita. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is just as if you change the system created by Whitehead and Russell, as by dropping a few axioms, and by substituting some for others, you can still have a system of number theory, but not one that you can meaningfully call Whitehead and Russell's.
		As they are special, their exegesis has to be done differently, or at least more systematically, than that of louwkika vaakyas.
		It quite certainly is; as I think I said in a posting before, uttara- miimaamsaa and Vedanta are close entities, but are not identical, just as the color of a fruit and its state of ripeness are.
	www.hindunet.com /alt_hindu/1995_Jul_1/msg00027.html (1858 words)

	Issues in mImAmSA, advaita, dvaita. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimamsa, Vedanta etc. - Srisha, I get the impression that you associate pUrva mImAmSA primarily with the kArytAvAda of Prabhakara.
		Advaita is arrived at after as elaborate a criticism of BhATTa mImAmSA as of, say, vijnAnavAda.
		Within the mImAmSa sUtras itself, Badarayana disagrees with Jaimini about who is entitled to perform Vedic rituals.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1995_Jun_1/msg00098.html (1160 words)

	Dr. Waggle -
		Liberation for Mimamsa is life in heaven and not the state of ultimate release found in most other systems of Indian thought.
		Later Mimamsa thinkers, however, were not untouched by the prevalent tendency in other systems of thought.
		A more interesting factor, however, of the Mimamsa philosophy is its unique epistemological theory of the validity of all cognition as such.
	www.philosophy.ilstu.edu /ljwaggl/phil207/Mimamsa.htm (524 words)

	Hinduism - Brahma Sutras
		Mimamsa means the investigation or enquiry into the connected meaning of the sacred texts.
		Of this Mimamsa two branches have been recognised, the Purva Mimamsa (earlier) and the Uttara Mimamsa (the latter).
		Sri Vyasa (Badarayana or Krishna Dwaipayana), the Guru of Jaimini, is the author of the Brahma Sutras otherwise known as the Vedanta Sutras.
	www.hinduism.8k.com /brahmasutras.html (2400 words)

	Vedanta and Mimamsa from the Chapter "Mimamasa - Karmamarga", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		The three leading Vedantic teachers (Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhva), do not completely reject Mimamsa, but the paths they have cut out go beyond the mimamsic view: devotion in the case of Visistadvaita and Dvaita and jnana in the case of Advaita.
		Mimamsa is called karmamarga since it teaches that karma is all.
		Mimamsa holds karma to be a goal in itself; Vedanta regards it as a means to a higher end.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part12/chap11.htm (357 words)

	Mimamsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimamsa is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Founded by Jaimini (ca 200 bce), author of the Mimamsa Sutras, who taught the correct performance of Vedic rites as the means to salvation.
		- Vedanta (or Uttara "later" Mimamsa): "End (or culmination) of the Vedas." For Vedanta, the main basis is the Upanishads and Aranyakas (the "end," anta, of the Vedas), rather than the hymns and ritual portions of the Vedas.
	www.experiencefestival.com /mimamsa (1567 words)

	The Advaita Vedânta Home Page - Mimamsa and Other Schools of Vedanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The primacy concern of mImAm.sA is textual exegesis, in addition to being a school of philosophy.
		According to pUrva mImAm.sA, this heaven is the highest salvation that is available to human beings, and thus the vedas are the sources of knowledge about both dharma and moksha.
		Thus, the pUrva mImAm.sA, with its emphasis on the karma kANDa of the vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /avhp/mimved.html (1681 words)

	AGORA: Winter 2002 Issue: Sukumaran
		Mimamsa mainly deals with the meaning of dharma in the Vedic sense, as well as sacrifice as a means to gain heaven.
		The Mimamsakas do not include a creator God in their metaphysics; the world has always existed and was never created and will never be destroyed.
		The Mimamsa school goes further and formulates arguments that positively disprove such a God.
	www.tamu.edu /chr/agora/winter02/sukumaran8.html (445 words)

	Mimamsa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sanskrit Mimamsa (“Reflection,” or “Critical Investigation”), one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy.
		Probably the earliest of the six, Mimamsa is fundamental to Vedanta and has deeply influenced the formulation of Hindu law.
		The aim of Mimamsa is to give rules for the interpretation of the Vedas and to provide a philosophical justification for the observance of…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052771?tocId=9052771 (325 words)

	Mimamsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		El Mimamsa aceptó las enseñanzas lógicas y filosóficas de las otras escuelas, pero se sentía que éstos prestaron la atención escasa a la acción derecha.
		Según el Mimamsa, muy el esforzarse para la liberación provino un deseo egoísta de estar libre.
		Mientras que Mimamsa no recibe mucha atención de estudiante actualmente, su influencia se puede sentir en la vida del hindu practicante.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/mi/Mimamsa.htm (257 words)

	Hinduism
		There are traditionally six ancient astika or orthodox (accepting the authority of the vedas) schools of philosophy, or shaddarsana: nyaya, vaiseshika[?], samkhya[?], yoga, purva mimamsa[?] (also called just 'mimamsa'), and uttara mimamsa[?] (also called 'vedanta').
		The Yoga system lays down elaborate prescriptions for gradually gaining physical and mental control and mastery over the personal self, until one's consciousness has intensified sufficiently to allow awareness of one's real Self (as distinct from one's feelings, thoughts and actions).
		But there are over a hundred Upanishads and they do not form a unified system.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Hinduism.html (3855 words)

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