Indian Logic Forum

Mukund Dhaygude · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: Mimansa

Mimamsa means karanmimamsa. This implies in a general sense management. Why I am saying it is there are justifications and excuses in the management world in general. In India I find many people giving interesting excuses in the work environments.
Off course I am aware of Shabarmimamsa or critical commentary work that was undertaken in Chinmaya International Foundation (visit www.cif.org) in Kochin Kerala Inida. I hope they are still continuing over the last five years. Sarla Suresh was a reserach scholar working there on these topics. Dr Ramaswamy Iyyengar was the head. I heard he has left the organization.

Plamen · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

Karanamimamsa is the investigation of instruments, while karmamimamsa is what is usually meant by Mimamsa, the investigation of the ritual acts. Is Mimamsa management? Why not. All our life is a concatenation of micro- and macro-actions of body, mind, and speech. Shrinks say many of our actions are rituals, or at least try to see them thus - as obsessive-compulsory actions. Freud even wrote an article explaining religious practices as compulsory actions. Dharma taken as norms to follow, i.e., as deontology, has also compulsory character - although the law that is Dharma is not enacted by some divine Adhipati, it has rather the svahbava of something self-imposed. Especially by those who fully understand it.

Anyway, an interesting topic for discussion.