action and knowledge

This we learned two conflicting schools: Mimamsa and Vedanta, and their focus on knowledge and action to achieve liberation. Mimamsa argues that action plays a greater role than knowledge, criticizing that knowledge isn’t “enough,” and focuses on performing the correct ritualistic actions according to the religious text. Vedanta, on the other hand, claims that knowledge is only thing that matter, and it surmounts the importance of action. This seems too definitive, and as we know, nothing we learn in our class is simply black and white. While these two schools may have opposing and conflicting views, faith isn’t absolute. Also, liberation isn’t bound by time or space, so there is no causality; thus, these two schools’ claim that either knowledge or action is the answer for liberation seems to be simplified. There must be an interaction of knowledge and action; rather than having one or the other, having the degree of both.