[Advaita-l] On Vedanta Desika's Seshwara Mimamsa. Tamil. MM Sri Mani Dravid Sastrigal

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l wrote:

> I did not know viśiṣṭādvaita (at least of one type) is called 
> seśvara-mīmāmsā ie., mīnāmsā with īśvara added to the mix.

Advaita Vedanta is actually the outlier in proposing a complete separation 
of jnana and karma.  Even in Maharshi Badarayanas' time there were 
thinkers who proposed some variety of jnanakarmasamucchaya. 
Sureshvaracharyas' sambandhavarttika is a good guide to these. 
Vishishtadvaita is merely a more recent example of this tendency.

My understanding is they consider all 20 chapters of the mimamsa shastra 
(12 adhyayas of Jaimini, 4 adhyayas of brahmasutras plus the 4 adhyayas of 
Sankarshana or devata kanda) as a unitary shastra with Shri Mahavishnu as 
its ultimate tatparya.

Some Advaita acharyas have come close to such beliefs (e.g. Shri Appaya 
Dikshita and Shri Bhaskararaya come to mind) but overall he consider Ourva 
Mimamsa and Uttara Mimamsa (i.e. Vedanta) to be two separate 
(albeit closely related) shastras with separate concerns.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>