This is a summary of a fantastic publication by Sri Rama Ramanuja Achari from srimatham.com that explains the principles of Mimamsa. All the credit goes to the author. Note: you may get a insecure connection warning when you try to download it; I did it anyway, because the text is excellent. I recommend you read the full text if you have the time.
Introduction
Exegesis is defined as "critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text." Mimamsa is the the science behind how the Vedic statements are analyzed to bring out the central teachings. Many Hindu sampradayas, especially the Vedantic schools, are based on Shruti (Vedas). While the Vedas are considered flawless, the teachings derived from them are subject to rigorous analysis and reasoned debate. Thus all Hindu philosophers are required to study logic (nyaya) and exegesis (mimamsa), prior to Vedic study. The Brahma Sutra, for example, is grounded in Nyaya and Mimamsa.
Jaimini defines Dharma as:
>codaṇā-lakṣaṇaḥ arthaḥ dharmaḥ
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>Dharma is that which leads to the highest common good (śreyas).
According to Manu there are four sources of Dharma:
>vedaḥ smṛtiḥ sadācāraḥ svasya ca priyamātmanaḥ |
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>etaccaturvidhaṃ prāhuḥ sākṣād dharmasya lakṣaṇam ||
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>The Veda (śruti), tradition (smṛti), the conduct of virtuous people and one's own conscience, these are declared to be the distinct four-fold sources of Dharma. (Manu 2:12)
The primary source of Dharma is the Veda and when we seek spiritual guidance from the Veda we are totally confused by the immensity, obscurity and complexity of the teachings!! How do we deal this vast resource of material? What is significant and what is not? What do I accept and what do I reject? It is in this context that one has to study Mīmāṃsa.
These rules were first formulated in a systematic manner by the sage Jaimini in what is known as the Jaimini Sūtras (Mimāṃsa Sūtras). Jaimini did not invent the teachings, but for the first time reduced them to writing.
To the Vedantin:
- The Upanishad portion of the Veda is the unique source of knowledge regarding Brahman.
- The Veda is claimed to be ‘eternal’ in that the truths propounded in it have a perennial validity for all time.
- The Veda can thus, by definition neither deal with temporal evanescent events, nor can they provide empirical facts or scientific generalizations based on those events.
- The ethics tau
>The blame was laid on the doorsteps of India. Sheldon Pollock claimed that the Mimamsa school contributed to the ideological formations of precolonial India and Nazis tried to implement it in Germany. He argues that it was this that “lead to the legitimation of genocide”. Wilhelm Halbfass, takes Pollock’s thesis to fabricate far reaching speculation that Nazism is a mirror image of Mimamsa and that nothing prevents calling Sage Kumarilla a Nazi and Hitler a Mimamsik
https://medium.com/@atulsin/aryan-myth-impact-on-race-science-distortion-of-caste-ac855d15eee5
>Sheldon Pollock is by no means the first one to build on the mythology that has overgrownthe factual core of a link between racism in general, National-Socialism in particular, and thestudy of Indo-European and Sanskrit. In his case, the alleged National-Socialist connection ofSanskrit is heavily over-interpreted and emphatically taken to be causal, as if the interest inSanskrit has caused the Holocaust. We verify the claims on which he erects this thesis one byone, and find them surprisingly weak or simply wrong. They could only have been made in aclimate in which a vague assumption of these links (starting with the swastika, which inreality was not taken from Hinduism) was already common. Yet, even non-specialists couldeasily have checked that Adolf Hitler expressed his contempt for Hinduism, repeatedly and inwriting. Pollock’s attempt to even link the Out -of-India Theory with the Nazi worldview is thediametrical opposite of the truth; it was the rivalling Aryan Invasion Theory (which Pollockhimself upholds) that formed the cornerstone and perfect illustration of the Nazi worldview.This linking could only pass peer review because of the general animus against Hinduism andIndo-European indigenism in American academe. The whole forced attempt to associateHinduism with National-Socialism suggests a rare animosity against Hinduism.
https://www.academia.edu/33837547/PurvaPaksha1607NaziIndology_docx
Sheldon Pollock was also awarded Padma Shri by Antonia Maino government.
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If they do who are the current gurus? Anyone famous personalities from each school of thought
Understanding the Ashwamedha Yajna
This is probably a relevant topic to discuss as polemicists of the Hindu tradition have begun taking one of the controversial aspects of the Ashwamedha sacrifice as a tool to denigrate and disparage the Hindu tradition. But what is the traditional narrative regarding the Aswamedha yajna and what relevance does it have in contemporary Hindu society? Let us investigate .
The historical and theological context
The earlier corpus of Vedic literature(the Samhitas,brahmanas) dealing with ritual sacrifice falls into the category of karmakanda (which places greater emphasis on the mode of action as a means to salvation), while the later texts such as the Aranyakas and Upanishads constitute the jnanakanda (which emphasises esoteric understanding).
Vedic society, during the age in which karmakanda was prominent, centred around a ritual known as Yajna.
The rites in the karmakandha are followed to produce specific temporal rewards which are materialistic in nature. Since they are temporary rewards, they represent a lower mode of worship than the jnanakanda. This mode of ritual is done via appeasement or propitiation of limited beings known devas and is not to be equated with the Bhakti directed towards the Eternal Brahman as found in the jnanakanda. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:-
3.8.10. “He, O Gārgī, who in this world, without knowing this Immutable Being, offers oblations in the fire, performs sacrifices and undergoes austerities even for many thousand years, finds all such acts but perishable; he, O Gārgī, who departs from this world without knowing this Immutable, is miserable. But he, O Gārgī, who departs from this world after knowing this Immutable, is a knower of Brahman.”
There are three types of ritual practices which are described in the Vedas:- the Nitya karmas (necessary rites), the Naimitika karmas (the occasional rites) and the Kamya karmas (desire oriented rites).
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The Nitya karmas are to be followed on a daily basis to produce the necessary results required for expiating sin. According to Vedanta, the Nitya karmas are to be performed without desiring the outcome of the ritual-such a process is known as karma yoga. These rites are also known as nishkamya karmas as they are done without any objective in mind. The non performance of the Nitya karmas invites sin on the individual. ex:- Agnihotra.
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The Naimitika karmas are occasional rites -examples include the Upanayana for the initiation of Vedic educ
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Loss of Purva Paksha tradition and its consequences
Purva paksha or the study of opponents in a dialogue or debate from their frames of reference so as to make an informed rebuttal is an ancient Dharmic intellectual tradition. Rajiv Malhotra reasons how the loss of the purva paksha tradition has led to serious civilizational and cultural trade-offs for Hindu (Sanatana) Dharma, which is…
https://www.hindupost.in/society-culture/loss-of-purva-paksha-tradition-and-its-consequences/
The blame was laid on the doorsteps of India. Sheldon Pollock claimed that the Mimamsa school contributed to the ideological formations of precolonial India and Nazis tried to implement it in Germany. He argues that it was this that “lead to the legitimation of genocide”. Wilhelm Halbfass, takes Pollock’s thesis to fabricate far reaching speculation that Nazism is a mirror image of Mimamsa and that nothing prevents calling Sage Kumarilla a Nazi and Hitler a Mimamsik
https://medium.com/@atulsin/aryan-myth-impact-on-race-science-distortion-of-caste-ac855d15eee5
Sheldon Pollock is by no means the first one to build on the mythology that has overgrownthe factual core of a link between racism in general, National-Socialism in particular, and thestudy of Indo-European and Sanskrit. In his case, the alleged National-Socialist connection ofSanskrit is heavily over-interpreted and emphatically taken to be causal, as if the interest inSanskrit has caused the Holocaust. We verify the claims on which he erects this thesis one byone, and find them surprisingly weak or simply wrong. They could only have been made in aclimate in which a vague assumption of these links (starting with the swastika, which inreality was not taken from Hinduism) was already common. Yet, even non-specialists couldeasily have checked that Adolf Hitler expressed his contempt for Hinduism, repeatedly and inwriting. Pollock’s attempt to even link the Out -of-India Theory with the Nazi worldview is thediametrical opposite of the truth; it was the rivalling Aryan Invasion Theory (which Pollockhimself upholds) that formed the cornerstone and perfect illustration of the Nazi worldview.This linking could only pass peer review because of the general animus against Hinduism andIndo-European indigenism in American academe. The whole forced attempt to associateHinduism with National-Socialism suggests a rare animosity against Hinduism.
https://www.academia.edu/33837547/PurvaPaksha1607NaziIndology_docx
More on Narayan Murthy:
https://np.reddit.com/r/RegimeChange101/comments/p8p7gs/infosys_founder_murthy_appointed_a_board_of/
https://np.reddit.com/r/RegimeChange101/comments/pavhiq/vijay_patel_adds_more_info_on_big_unis_of/
https://np.reddit.com/r/RegimeChange101/comments/pfc214/newsclick_funded_by_tricontinentalrun_by_vijay/
https://np.reddit.com/r/RegimeChange101/comments/pbgb6l/continuing_trail_of_cia_backing_antiindia/
