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**Meaning:** Cunning men corrupt the minds of people by loudly describing the soul, the afterlife, and various types of actions, causing them to be obsessed with worldly pleasures. ||14||
**Meaning:** Therefore, it is not appropriate to abandon the pleasures of this world and desire the pleasures of the future (afterlife); because after the five elements have burned to ashes, the desire to be reborn - to return to life again - is futile. ||15||
**Meaning:** For these reasons, this (Charvaka's) philosophy is false; because the soul (Atman) is directly perceived due to the non-difference of the qualities of perception, doubt, etc. ||16||
**Meaning:** The perception of ego, etc., is not the nature of the body. Because if it were, then there would necessarily be a problem with the perception of the senses like eyes, etc., just like with gravity, etc. ||17||