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on this law of karma presumption. Rajendra Prasad quotes - The three belief systems i.e. the belief in law of karma ,the belief in rebirth, and the belief in moksha form a good logical family in the sense that no one of them can be completely disassociated from the each other."
Part-B Belief in the law of karma is considerded to be one of the most fundamental features of classical Indian philosophy with the lone exception of the so called Carvakas (materialists) and western thinkers don't agree and believe in this law of karma. Those semantic religions like Christianity, Islamism, and Judaism don't believe in the concept of rebirth. So it is the belief system of a person which regulates the entire actions of the human beings. The history of India also repeated the very same things during the period of British rule, colonise the belief system of Indians and colonise the Indians. This tool was adopted by the Britishers and they succeded in their goal. In the same way, what we see in the western world situations today is an effect of their belief system which can be seen in the name of over materialistic life style, highly technological progress and comfort zone attitude leading towards the problem of deficiency of natural resources, deforestation, global warming, climate change, species extinction, reactive voilence and all such dis-compassionate human behaviour. They were all together bearing the fruition or consequences of their own belief system backed up by their non-belief in law of karma. Concept of Karma in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Comparitive Study
But for the Carvakas all the orthodox systems base their views upon the Law of Karma: For them, perception is the only valid source of knowledge. Nothing is real, which is not perceptible. As soul has no existence in the philosophy of Carvakas , they do not believe in the future life and the Law of Karma. The ideal which Carvakas present before us is that of hedonism. It lays emphasis on the individual happiness.
The denial of soul is as absurd as to say that "my mother is barren”. If there is no soul as a separate entity then body is the soul, which is contradiction in saying. By rejecting the existence of soul, Carvakas reject the doctrine of rebirth and Karma which reduces their philosophy to escapicism. They do not care even for moral values. As they reject every other source of knowledge other than perception and all moral values of life, 'Agnosticism' and 'Escapicism' are the necessary outcome of the philosophy of Carvakas.
