Glimpses Of World Religions

SR No.: 032397
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Navbharat Sahitya Mandir
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 228
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 26 MB

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Charwak Darshan
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you live, and relish sweets even by incurring debts. There is 'no return' of the body which is engulfed by fire. Happiness means only lustful pleasure (Bhog, Vilās). (Eat, Drink and be merry)."
This system of knowledge is not ready to accept the inference as a source of valid knowledge. This fully materialistic philosophy does not believe in anyone like God as the creator of this universe. It has no faith in any such inscrutable or miraculous other-worldly power. This is a pragmatic or naturalistic darshan. There is no motive or purpose behind the creation of this world. As this ideology or darshan believes that the progress or 'getting on' of this universe is just working on like a machine only, this darshan is also known or called as a mechanistic darshan. We do have a real experience of the existing objects of this world; because of this belief of theirs, this 'darshan' is also termed as a realistic one or realism.
The Late Pandit Sukhlalji gives the word matter-likeconsciousness or "Bhoot chaitanyavad" for this sort of philosophical system. For, Charwak Darshan does not believe that 'conscience' (or consciousness) is a quality or characteristic of some non-physical or spiritual entity like soul. Thus, it is a 'darshan' which regards the body only as a soul. There is no need, moreover, of believing in God as a creator or a destroyer of the world. And if asked to believe in God, we will have to believe in such a God as is wicked and unjust. As per this way of thinking:
The soul or Atma dies along with the death of the body and so, there is no question of its getting happiness or misery in heaven or in the hell respectively; and there being no soul remaining after the death of a man, there is no question of its re-birth.