Purva-Mimamsa: Shruti, Shruti-Vakyas, Injunctions, Hymns, Names, Prohibitions, Explanatory Passages

• Vedas are divided into Mantras, Brahmanas, Aryanakas and Upanishads. Mantras and Brahmanas deal with karma-kanda which is accepted by Purva-Mimamsa.
• As a result, Purva-Mimamsa is also known as Karma-Mimamsa. According to the school, liberation is possible via karma or action. The founder of Purva-Mimamsa school is Jaimini.
• Jaimini accepts three pramanas or sources of knowledge, namely, perception, inference and verbal testimony.

Shruti

• The main aim of Purva-Mimamsa school is to ascertain the nature of D…

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Purva-Mimamsa: The Concept of Sabdanitya-Vada & Jatisakti-Vada

Purva-Mimamsa: The Concept of Sabdanitya-vada

According to Jaimini, words are eternal, part-less and uncaused.

• Sabdanitya-vada means the theory of eternality of words.
• Words are not produced at any place or time because they transcend space and time.
• Sabda (words) are not perceived sounds or dhvanis.
• According to Jaimini, words are ever present, they are only spoken for the purpose of manifesting them to others.
• They are beyond creation and destruction.

Purva-Mimamsa: Jatisakti-vada

According to Jaimini, un…

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Advaita Vedanta- Shankara: The Concept of Brahman, the Concept of Atman, the Atman-Brahman Relation, the Concept of Bondage and Liberation

• Advaita means monism, or one reality. Sankaracharya is regarded as the founder of the Advaita Vedanta School. It was originally known as Purushavada. It is the oldest sub-school of Vedanta (or Uttar Mimamsa) and is one of the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy.
• It is regarded as orthodox because it accepts the authority of the Vedas and the Vedic literature. The central premise of Advaita Vedanta is the highest reality called Brahman, the concept of Atman, Jiva or the individual self, the conc…

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