Wikipedia describes Carvaka as "Cārvāka (Sanskrit: चार्वाक), also known as Lokāyata, is a system of Indian philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras."
[1] below discusses the extinct text of Barhaspatya-sutras and has the following exquisitely beautiful lines:
[1] below discusses the extinct text of Barhaspatya-sutras and has the following exquisitely beautiful lines:
While life is yours live joyously;No one can avoid Death's searching eye:When this body of ours is burnt,How can it ever return again?
The following text taken from Wikipedia comes as a surprise to me and I figured it will be of interest to many others as well--
The Indian Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen, in an interview with Pranab Bardhan for the California Magazine published in the July–August 2006 edition by the University of California, Berkeley states:
| “ | In some ways people had got used to the idea that India was spiritual and religion-oriented. That gave a leg up to the religious interpretation of India, despite the fact that Sanskrit had a larger atheistic literature than what exists in any other classical language. Madhava Acharya, the remarkable 14th century philosopher, wrote this rather great book called Sarvadarshansamgraha, which discussed all the religious schools of thought within the Hindu structure. The first chapter is "Atheism" – a very strong presentation of the argument in favor of atheism and materialism. | ” |
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