Salvation is brought about when a man enjoys and suffers the fruits of his good and bad actions and thereby exhausts them and stops the further generation of new effects by refraining from the performance of kamya-karmas (sacrifices etc. performed for the attainment of certain beneficent results) and guarantees himself against the evil effects of sin by assiduously performing the nitya-karmas (such as the sandhya prayers etc., by the performance of which there is no benefit but the non-performance of which produces sins).  This state is characterized by the dissolution of the body and the non-production of any further body or rebirth.

Mima@msa does not admit the existence of any God as the creator and destroyer of the universe.  Though the universe is made up of parts, yet there is no reason to suppose that the universe had ever any beginning in time, or that any God created it.  Every day animals and men are coming into being by the action of the parents without the operation of any God.  Neither is it necessary as Nyaya supposes that dharma and adharma should have a supervisor, for these belong to the performer and

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[Footnote 1:  It may be mentioned in this connection that unlike Nyaya Mima@msa did not consider all activity as being only of the nature of molecular vibration (parispanda).  It admitted the existence of energy (s’akti) as a separate category which manifested itself in actual movements.  The self being considered as a s’akti can move the body and yet remain unmoved itself.  Manifestation of action only means the relationing of the energy with a thing.  Nyaya strongly opposes this doctrine of a non-sensible (atindriya) energy and seeks to explain all action by actual molecular motion.]

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no one can have any knowledge of them.  Moreover there cannot be any contact (sa@myoga) or inherence (samavaya) of dharma and adharma with God that he might supervise them; he cannot have any tools or body wherewith to fashion the world like the carpenter.  Moreover he could have no motive to create the world either as a merciful or as a cruel act.  For when in the beginning there were no beings towards whom should he be actuated with a feeling of mercy?  Moreover he would himself require a creator to create him.  So there is no God, no creator, no creation, no dissolution or pralaya.  The world has ever been running the same, without any new creation or dissolution, s@r@s@ti or pralaya.

Mima@msa as philosophy and Mima@msa as ritualism.