Jaimini Quotes on Knowledge
Jaimini (variously dated to the centuries surrounding 200 BCE) is the conventional author of the Mīmāṃsā Sūtras, the foundational text of the Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā school whose central concern is the philosophical analysis of Vedic injunctions and of the means of valid knowledge through which they are to be received. The classical Mīmāṃsaka epistemology developed on the basis of the sūtras — preserved chiefly through the commentaries of Śabara, Kumārila, and Prabhākara — defends the intrinsic validity of cognition (svataḥ-prāmāṇya) and the authoritative status of the eternal, uncomposed Veda as the principal source of knowledge regarding the supersensible objects of religious obligation.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jaimini:
“An injunction has the form of a command; the command of the Veda is the proper object of inquiry.”
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Attributed to Jaimini:
“What the text commands is to be done; what it merely describes is not.”
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Attributed to Jaimini:
“Sentences are wholes; their parts derive their meaning from the whole that contains them.”
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“Acharanga Sutra , Jainism religious text, in Humanimal , p. 41”
He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ...Those who are at peace and who are free from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others. -
“Acharanga Sutra , Jainism religious text, in Humanimal , p. 122”
Propagate the religion which is a blessing to all creatures in the world . -
“Acharanga Sutra , as translated by Hermann Jacobi (1884)”
Some slay (animals) for sacrificial purposes, some kill (animals) for the sake of their skin, some kill (them) for the sake of their flesh, some kill them for the sake of their blood; thus for the sake of their heart, their bile, the feathers of their tail, their tail, their big or small horns, their teeth, their tusks, their nails, their sinews, their bones; with a purpose or without a purpose. S -
“Acharanga Sutra , as translated by Hermann Jacobi (1884), 1.2.1”
(He thinks) I have to provide for a mother, for a father, for a sister, for a wife, for sons, for daughters, for a daughter-in-law, for my friends, for near and remote relations, for my acquaintances, for different kinds of property, profit, meals, and clothes. Longing for these objects, people are careless, suffer day and night, work in the right and the wrong time, desire wealth and treasures, c -
“Acharanga Sutra , as translated by Hermann Jacobi (1884), 1.2.3”
All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear.