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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Purva-Mímāṁsā
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from Jaimini to Kumärila and their followers did not believe in God as the ultimate creator of the world or as the controller and supervisor of the world. Sabaraswāmi did not accept the existence of God for it was not necessary and it would have challenged the supremacy of the words of the Vedic mantras. The Mimārasakas were very eager to maintain the supremacy of the Vedic hymns over all other things. They did not find it logically necessary to believe in such ultimate agency as God; Sabara maintained that belief in God is only through tradition and convention; there is no philosophical ground to it. Even Prabhākara believes like Sabara that God is unnecessary, and words of the Vedic hymns are self-sufficient. They can exist by themselves; they do not require any originator nor any support. He also believes that the words possess enough power to enable an individual to reach the heaven when he performs the prescribed sacrifices with genuine faith in them. The Mimāṁsā system is not in favour of believing in God as the ultimate originator or creator of the world. The Naiyāyikas believe in God as the ultramundane supervisor of the workings of the dharma and adharma. The problem is how God is connected with his control over the dharma and adharma. The control cannot be combined with God by means of conjunction ( ) because conjunction becomes possible only between two independent substances, and dharma and adharma are not substances, but are only qualities. Nor can it be related to God by means of inherence (74914 ) as dharma and adharma
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