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THE MIMAMSA SCHOOL
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toto the commonly accepted tenets of
which, according to him, are founded
on mythical, wicked, and impious stories.
He teaches that everything that tends to cherish the
passions, to which one must necessarily yield if they are
not surmounted, is calculated to bind the spirit anew to
Matter and to prolong its captivity. It is only after having
overcome all such passions, and especially those of lust,
anger, and avarice, that one can aspire to complete free-
dom and the supreme blessedness known as mukti.
The Mimamsa school, which recognizes a blind and
irresistible predestination,
professes absolute toleration
with regard to other sects. Its adepts scrutinize and dis-
cuss the dogmas of these sects, without condemning them
or venturing on any decided opinion with regard to them.
They commend the utmost tolerance in matters of opinion,
and affirm that every sect nay, every religion pursues
the same end. viz. happiness, although they may differ as
to the means of attaining it.
I have already described l the abominable orgies of the
sakti-'puja, practised by the votaries of the Sakta sect 2
Their principal doctrine seems to be that happiness consists
in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures.
There is another sect called Bouddha Mata, which has
no Brahmin adherents at all, its followers being chiefly
Buddhists, whose number at present is very small in
Southern India. Their doctrine is pure materialism.
Kapila rejects in
Hindu
the
religion,
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1 See Part
2 The Saivas
II,
Chapter IX.
are all worshippers of Siva and Bhavani conjointly, and
they adore the linga or compound type of this go