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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
CHAPTER III
CĀRVĀKISM There are mainly three atheistic schools that came into existence in the post-Vedic period. The Pūrva-Mimārasā school also is regarded as an atheistic school. All these four schools, i.e., the Carvāka system, Buddhism, Jainism and Pūrva-Mīmā msa philosophy are unanimous in denying the existence of God, simply because they can explain the world and life without the idea of God. Out of these four schools the Cárvāka philosophy is not only atheistic in character, but it is also anti-theistic. The Carvāka philosophy, Buddhism and Jainism were powerful reactions offered against the Vedic and Brāhmaṇic ritualism and sacrifices. They refused to believe in the Vedas and in their divine-origin. They did not believe in animal and human sacrifices and their efficacy. The Pūrva-Mīmārsā system, of course, believed in the validity, authority and the divineorigin of the Vedas; but the Cārvāka philosophy offered a deadly resistance to the Vedic ritualism and sacrificalism. Buddhism also most vehemently criticised the practice of the Brāhmaṇic sacrifices as cruel and unfounded.
The Cārvāka school is known also as the Lokāyata school of philosophy. The Cārvākas are sometimes known as the Asuras (119T) or Dehátma
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