Dharma as understood by Pūrva Mīmāṃsā can be loosely translated into English as " virtue ", " morality " or " duty ".

The Pūrva Mīmāṃsā school traces the source of the knowledge of dharma neither to sense-experience nor inference, but to verbal cognition ( i. e. knowledge of words and meanings ) according to Vedas.

In this respect it is related to the Nyāya school, the latter, however, allows fewer proofs ( pramāṇa ) than Pūrva Mīmāṃsā.

The Pūrva Mīmāṃsā school held dharma to be equivalent to following the prescriptions of the Saṃhitās and their Brāhmaṇa commentaries relating the correct performance of Vedic rituals.

Seen in this light, Pūrva Mīmāṃsā is essentially ritualist ( orthopraxy ), placing great weight on the performance of karma or action as enjoined by the Vedas.

Emphasis of Yajnic Karmakāṇḍas in Pūrva Mīmāṃsā is erroneously interpreted by some to be an opposition to Jñānakāṇḍa of Vedānta and Upaniṣads.

Pūrva Mīmāṃsā does not discuss topics related to Jñānakāṇḍa, such as salvation ( mokṣa ), but it never speaks against mokṣa.

Pūrva Mīmāṃsā 6. 3. 1: " sarvaśaktau pravṛttiḥ syāt tathābhūtopadeśāt " ( सर ् वशक ् त ौ प ् रव ृ त ् त िः स ् य ा त ् तथ ा भ ू त ो पद े श ा त ्).

In the context of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā 6. 3. 1 shown above, next two sutras becomes significant, in which this Omnipotent Being is termed as " pradhāna ", and keeping away from Him is said to be a " doṣa ", hence all beings are asked to get related (" abhisambandhāt " in tadakarmaṇi ca doṣas tasmāt tato viśeṣaḥ syāt pradhānenābhisambandhāt ; Jaimini 6, 3. 3 ) to the " Omnipotent Main Being " ( api vāpy ekadeśe syāt pradhāne hy arthanirvṛttir guṇamātram itarat tadarthatvāt ; Jaimini 6, 3. 2 ).

The foundational text for the Mīmāṃsā school is the Purva Mīmāṃsā Sutras of Jaimini ( ca.

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There are other indications, too, of the importance of the Aeginetan fleet in the Greek scheme of defence.

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Databases are usually too expensive ( in terms of importance and needed investment in resources, e. g., time, money, to build them ) to be lost by a power interruption.

In the process, Prussia became too heterogeneous, lost its identity, and by the 1930s had become an administrative shell of little importance.

God responds by showing Jonah that he is " angry at doing good ", and that he too would agree to spare an ephemeral plant if it has importance for him.

He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, " I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass.

There were too many inhabitants inside the walls, but the fortifications could not be demolished because Nijmegen was deemed as being of vital importance to the defence of the Netherlands.

The relative intensities of pain, then, may resemble the relative importance of that risk to our ancestors ( lack of food, too much cold, or serious injuries are felt as agony, whereas minor damage is felt as mere discomfort ).

Michel Foucault believed that modern political theory was too state-centric, saying " Maybe, after all, the state is no more than a composite reality and a mythologized abstraction, whose importance is a lot more limited than many of us think.

In 1936 he told TS Eliot that he was starting to meditate, and he used other therapies too ; the Alexander Technique and the Bates Method of seeing had particular importance in guiding him through personal crises.

" Based on Heidegger's earliest lecture courses, in which Heidegger already engages Dilthey's thought prior to the period Gadamer mentions as " too late ", scholars as diverse as Theodore Kisiel and David Farrell Krell have argued for the importance of Diltheyan concepts and strategies in the formation of Heidegger's thought.

The premise of Everyman is that God, believing that the people on earth are too focused on wealth and worldly possessions, sends Death to Everyman to remind him of God's power and the importance of upholding values.

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The Ehrlichs stand by the basic ideas in the book, stating in 2009 that " perhaps the most serious flaw in The Bomb was that it was much too optimistic about the future " and believe that it achieved their goals because " it alerted people to the importance of environmental issues and brought human numbers into the debate on the human future.

Where S puts too much emphasis on the separateness of persons, C fails to recognize the importance of bonds and emotional responses that come from allowing some people privileged positions in one's life.

" Dutch anarchist-pacifist Bart de Ligt ’ s 1936 treatise The Conquest of Violence ( with its none too subtle allusion to Kropotkin ’ s The Conquest of Bread ) was also of signal importance.

Telerecording was still being used internally at the BBC in the 1980s too, to preserve copies for posterity of programs which were not necessarily of the highest importance, but which nonetheless their producers wanted to be preserved.

Another factor in Edwin's treatment of Kent may have been the location of the archbishopric in Canterbury: Edwin was well aware of the importance of Canterbury's metropolitan status, and at one time planned to make York an archbishopric too, with Paulinus as the planned first incumbent.

He is apt to attach an exaggerated importance to some of the authorities which he was the first to bring to light, to see a general tendency in what may only be the expression of an individual eccentricity, to rely too much on ambassadors ' reports which may have been written for some special end, to enter too fully into the details of diplomatic correspondence.

The advantage of a scientifically and technologically sophisticated country became all too apparent during wartime, and in the ideological Cold War to follow the importance of scientific strength in even peacetime applications became too much for the government to any more leave to philanthropy and private industry alone.

Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute have criticised past studies of good governance to place too little importance on developing political parties, their capacity and their ties to their grassroots supporters.

They too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

He discusses and rejects the idea that mere faith ( without law ) alone is enough, but then cautions against rabbis he sees as adding too many restrictions to Jewish law.

In consequence, Hamlet loses his faith in all women, treating Ophelia as if she too were a whore and dishonest with Hamlet.

Albo and the Raavad argued that Maimonides ' principles contained too many items that, while true, were not fundamentals of the faith.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

But Honorius III really had too large a task ; besides the liberation of the Holy Land, he felt bound to forward the repression of Cathar heresy in the south of France, the war for the faith in the Spanish peninsula, the planting of Christianity in the lands along the Baltic Sea, and the maintenance of the impossible Latin empire in Constantinople.

For too long the Protestant people have watched their very faith, culture and identity being slowly eroded away ".

" To my surprise, they didn't pay too much attention to it ; they invested on faith.

Buechner has occasionally been accused of being too “ preachy ;” a 1984 review by Anna Shapiro in the New York Times notes “ But for all the colloquialism, there is something, well, preachy and a little unctuous about making yourself an exemplar of faith.

at $ 44. 6 billion was already too expensive, and that Yang was not bargaining in good faith.

When a grammar school has too many qualified applicants, other criteria are used to allocate places, such as siblings, distance or faith.

They have some cause: the then-radical insistence that nothing valuable had been written in archaeology before 1960 matched the hippie belief that anyone over 30 was too ancient to be intelligent, and the optimism that anything could be recovered from the archaeological record if only you searched hard enough was the archaeological version of the hope that the Pentagon could be levitated if only enough people had sufficient faith.

In Don Sylvia von Rosalva ( 1764 ), a romance in imitation of Don Quixote, he held up to ridicule his earlier faith and in the Comische Erzählungen ( 1765 ) he gave his extravagant imagination only too free a rein.

Popular CBS anchor Walter Cronkite stated during a news broadcast on February 27, " We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds " and added that, " we are mired in a stalemate that could only be ended by negotiation, not victory.

Moreover, some and even very many of the significant elements and endowments which together go to build up and give life to the Church itself, can exist outside the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church: the written word of God ; the life of grace ; faith, hope and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, and visible elements too.

Harnack's view was that the creed contains both too much and too little to be a satisfactory test for candidates for ordination ; he preferred a briefer declaration of faith which could be rigorously applied to all ( cf.

Instead, public servants are advised to keep their religious faith private, and may be censured if they display it too openly.

Marshall McLuhan, too, was opposed to the expressway and said: " Toronto will commit suicide if it plunges the Spadina Expressway into its heart ... our planners are 19th century men with a naive faith in an obsolete technology.

In the same year, the Schmalkaldic League called its own council, and posited several precepts of faith ; Luther was present, but too ill to attend the meetings.