Book Title: Relation Between Religion And Philosophy
Author(s): Jitendra S Jetly
Publisher: Jitendra S Jetly

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________________ I of mass killing of innocent creatures. studied the reasons of the Vedic religion making such sacrifice of innocent animals, They came to know that this sacrifice was performed in order to achieve i.e. heaven or some good result in the next birth. But they argued that such imagined heaven was not seen by any one. For the next birth also no body was certain. There were perhaps the reasons why he ultimately considered perception as the only right means of knowledge. Non-acceptance of separate self other than body and hence rebirth of the self was maintained because of the fact that they were not perceptible () to any one. So he vehemently cpposed the mass killing of the innocent animals in the sacrifice in the name of merit goreligion, Thus the inner con passion towards all the creatures led them to above tanets. He rejected the authorities of those fas which preached killing of animals in the sacrifice. Ultimately he rejected, leeding_to prove परलोक or स्वर्ग etc. He could see that on the strength of the fa and wrong inference Brahmins were proving the existence of heaven, rebirth, good and bad birth according to cne's merit and demerit and so on. So he rejected all these while accepting as the only right means of knowledge. As all these things were not seen by any type of perception they did not exist and the dictum was established प्रत्यक्षमेव प्रमाणमिति चार्वाकः The ultimate aim of ajafa was not to behave without any responsibility in the society but to have social justice here and here i.e. in this world alone and in this birth through good government. This was the reason why some arafas accepted a king as the God.

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