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according to them. S. Dasgupta writes -“The school of Sus'iksita Cārvākas holds that so long as the body remains, there is an entity which remains as the constant perceiver and enjoyer of all experiences. But no such thing exists after the destruction of the body."? It is further stated that the 'living body itself is the Self'.? They could not admit the existence of an immaterial entity like the Self because the Self did not present itself in any sense perception. The Cārvākas accepted the sense perception as the only valid and reliable means of knowledge. They did not believe in the knowledge obtained by other means like inference (anumāna) and authority. They accepted only the direct and immediate knowledge by sense perception as the only reliable source of knowledge.
The Cärvāka teacher Kambales'vatara says that the consciousness is produced from the body through the influence of the prāņa and other bio-motor faculties. They could not also admit the so called dormant consciousness in the foetal state of the individual, simply for the reason that the human organism in the foetus-state does not posses the sense-organs in a developed form, to the extent of being capable of cognising objects; and as there is no cognition possible, consciousness cannot be ascribed to the foetus. They also argued, that cons
1 Dasgupta S. : A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I, p. 540. a Sarvadars'anasangraha, p. 3.
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