Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c10.2

c10.2

God, as world-creator, is denied by *Kumārila*; but as to whether this denial applies also to the *Parama-Ātman*, the Super-Soul, has been felt to be doubtful. On the authority of a comparatively recent work, the *Sarvasiddhāntasaṅgraha*, it seems that Kumārila was a believer in a multiplicity of *Jīva-Souls* and in the identity of these with the *Super-Soul*; this *Super-Soul* is one and eternal and is present in all *Jīva-Souls*. This is the teaching of the *Vedānta* also; and the *Shlokavārtika* ends its treaties on ‘Soul’ with the declaration that sound knowledge of the Soul is to be obtained from the ‘*Vedānta*.’ From this it would seem that Kumārila was a believer in the *Super-Soul*, *Paramātman*, in its impersonal aspect, though opposed to the idea of one *Personal-World-Creator*. But if he had really believed in the *Super-Soul*, it seems impossible that he should not have asserted that belief and should have left it to be inferred from his reference to the ‘*Vedānta*,’ which too does not necessarily indicate his belief in the *Super-Soul*.