Charvak : advocated total rejection of the spiritual truths & experiences recorded in the Vedas such as immortality of the soul, its transmigration (i.e., its lives before & after the present one) on this earth as a means of its own & the earth’s evolutionary transformation – a doctrine after the heart of Western Scientific Scholarship because it justified its own materialistic doctrines & policy of total opportunism.
... . In obedience to this impulse the centuries between the rise of Buddhism and the advent of Shankaracharya became — though not agnostic and sceptical, for they rejected violently the doctrines of Charvak — yet profoundly scientific and outward-going even in their spiritualism. It was therefore the great age of for- malised metaphysics, science, law, art and the sensuous luxury which accompanies the ...
... . In obedience to this impulse the centuries between the rise of Buddhism and the advent of Shankaracharya became — though not agnostic and skeptical, for they rejected violently the doctrines of Charvak — yet profoundly scientific and outward-going even in their spiritualism. It was therefore the great age of formalised metaphysics, science, law, art and the sensuous luxury which accompanies the arts ...
... s. In obedience to this impulse the centuries between the rise of Buddhism and the advent of Shankaracharya became, though not agnostic and sceptical, for they rejected violently the doctrines of Charvak, yet profoundly scientific and outward-going even in their spiritualism. It was therefore the great age of formalised metaphysics, science, law, art and the sensuous luxury which accompanies the arts ...
... Vidya alone be eternal, then is Avidya a curse and a bondage, what have we to do with it, but shake it off with disgust as soon as possible? These are the extremes of the Materialist and Nihilist, the Charvak & the Sunyavadin; but the Vedanta gives its sanction to neither. The Unconditioned Brahman is, but of the Conditioned also we cannot say that He is not and the Conditioned Brahman is what we call Maya ...
... does not save from collapse. When one follows the rule "eat, drink and be merry' it is the worst. Well, I never heard that 'to eat, drink and be merry' was one of the paths of Yoga—unless Charvak's way is one of Yoga. I am coming to X's view that your Yoga will always remain yours. Nobody will ever catch its head or tail, except a few perhaps. Let us pin our faith on the "Head" now. The ...
... to aggrandise himself, but that is another matter. Self-aggrandisement does not save from collapse. Well, I never heard that 'to eat, drink and be merry' was one of the paths of Yoga - unless Charvak's way is one of Yoga. It is not my Yoga that is difficult to get the head or tail of - it is your and X's and others' views about Yoga that are weird and wonderful. If a fellow is brilliant in ...
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