(10) Chaarvaaka enters

 (Chaarvaaka and his student enter)

{Chaarvaaka (चारुः- लोकसंमतं वाक्यो यस्य) also known as Lokaayata (prevalent among people/ admits the existence of this world alone) is named after its founder Chaarvaaka, (also known as Chaaru or Brihaspati) a sophistical philosopher and author of Baarhaspatya Sootras. He propounded the grossest form of atheism and materialism. Chaarvaaka system is classified as the heterodox (Naastika) system. According to Charvakas, Aatma, the Self does not exist as a separate entity in the body, as one can never `see` it directly.}   

CHAARVAAKA-

“Son! Science of administration (Danda-Neeti) alone is proper learning. All intelligence is contained within it only. The three Vedas are the worthless prattle of the cheats. By producing a heaven, nothing special has been achieved.

स्वर्गः कर्तृक्रियाद्रव्यविनाशे यदि यज्वनां

ततो दावाग्निदग्धानां फलं स्याद् भूरि भूरुहां [19]

If heaven is attained by the person who performs sacrifice 

at the destruction of

the agent of action (after death), action (fire-rites etc)

or materials used in the Sacrifice (offered to the fire),

then such a fruit should be attained abundantly

by the trees getting burnt in a forest-fire!

And also-

निहतस्य पशोर्यज्ञे स्वर्गप्राप्तिर्यदीष्यते

स्वपिता यजमानेन तत्र कस्मान्न हन्यते [20]

If the animal sacrificed in the Sacrifice is destined to get heaven,

then why not the ‘performer of the Sacrifice’ kill his own father?

And also-

मृतानामपि जन्तूनां श्राद्धं चेत्तृप्तिकारणं

निर्वाणस्य प्रदीपस्य स्नेहः संवर्धयेच्छिखां [21]

If the ‘Shraaddha ceremony’ (performed in honor of the dead)

is going to satisfy the creatures though they are dead,

then oil poured into the lamp with the snuffed out flame, should rise up the flame!”

SHISHYA (Disciple) -

“Master! If the main objective of a man is to eat and drink, then, why do these people suffer performing the most horrifying types of penance like, ‘Paraaka (twelve days of fasting), Saantapana (scorching or Burning), Shashta-kaala-ashana (food eaten every sixth evening only)’ in these pilgrimage centers discarding the pleasures of the world?”

CHAARVAAKA-

“Deceived by the Vedas coined by the cheats these fools get satisfied just by imagined sweet-balls. (Laddus)

Look Look!

क्वालिङ्गनम् भुजनिपीडितबाहुमूलं

भुग्नोन्नतस्तनमनोहरमायताक्ष्याः

भिक्षोपवासनियमार्कमरीचिदाहैः

देहोपशोषणविधिः कुधियां क्व चैषः [22]

Where is (what comparison is there for) the embrace,

of the lovely girl with large eyes-

as her high rising breasts bend down and get crushed

pressed hard at the shoulder blades by the lover

and

where is the austerity of the idiots

by emaciating the body through begging, starving, disciplines,

and vows like ‘Chaandraayana’ or ‘sitting under the sun’?”

SHISHYA-

“Master! If it is so, then these fools roaming these holy-centers say that the pleasures of the world should be avoided as they are mixed with pain!”

CHAARVAAKA- (laughing aloud)

“Ah! All that is the insane imagination of these human-shaped animals!

त्याज्यं सुखं विषयसंगमजन्म पुंसां

दुःखोपसृष्टमिति मूर्खविचारणैषा

व्रीहीन्जिहासति सितोत्तमतण्डुलाढ्यान्

को नाम भोस्तुषकणोपहितान्हितार्थी [23]

The fools alone have made the theory that

 the pleasures rising out of the sense contacts should be renounced by men

as they will give pain later.

Ho! Which person desirous of his own good

will throw away the paddy grains filled with excellent white rice

because they are mixed with the chaff?”