"You can only be full to the extent to which you are empty"
The thoughts of Parallel Universes lobed my neurons when I saw Dr.Strange visualizing 1.6 million possibilities of the outcome of the Avengers Infinity war.When started thinking deep,the thoughts wandered retrospectively and in the journey joined Charvaka, Kanad and Krishna.That's like trying to hold multiple paradoxical thoughts together and expand your imagination.
Charvaka's philosphy of inference and materialism combined with Kanad's thoughts on Vaisheshika,provides ample cranial space to attach "NO" meaning to life and henceforth live life to the timely demands.Not moving back and forth,a miniscule matter of atom clubbed together to form the complex structures,form the basis of Universe as per these philosophers.So what happens when these two people have an on-board member named Krishna.
Krishna's "Nishakama Karma"(doing one's duty without expectation),according to me,forms the core essence of his teaching.The mentor,in this case Krishna,propounds a theory of duty bound unselfishness as a way to salvation.Taking for granted,the very nature of "salvation",in itself is attributed along with the many aspects of Soul,afterlife,divinity.Almost all the religions,come to a certain conclusion that attaining salvation is the ultimate purpose of human life.Man is in a constant search for peace.Happiness brings with it an excitation peace and not a linear one prolonged over time.Hence,an objective suggestion for the entire human kind to reach the path of peace sounds Utopian.Period.
While I do agree with Krishna in the matters of self consciousness and the differentiating concept of soul and the body,I stand contradictory or rather helpless in finding the solution to the animal behaviour within the humans which dictates the pleasure and fuzzy decisions in human life.It is only logical to agree that despite possessing the sixth sense,we are not saintly creatures but only an evolved species of Primates.Krishna's advocacy of endless life,provides us a faithful rope to tie around and sail through the journey of life adhering to the principles of common good or say larger good.While the end goals are not defined, its only an assumption based rule to hold the order of the society.The question then is "Can Charvak's Nihilism be completely ignored?".The answer here is partly Yes and partly No.
Humans by large are emotional creatures and are motivated by the purpose they attach to their lives.One cannot derive happiness when one is in search of nothing."Shoonya" or "absoluteness" is a emotionless state or a delicate balance of staying away from emotional state.Say,it is the dark matter of our human mind whose potential is yet to be tapped or have been trying to be tapped in multiple ways.Hence forth ,"Just Be" state of neutrality in complex scenarios is a life time practice and we as a species should travel towards that. Charvak's philosophy of reaching an absolute end while trying to make a living with the hormonal sense in the practical world is extremely complex.
Man should and had always been guided by emotions.A thorough rationalist knows this difference and hence develops a greater emotional quotient to deviate those harmful sways of emotion while the situation demands.This forms the essence being human.Not pleasure but a satisfactory joy of life is the pragmatic way of living together as a society.
Coming to Kanad's atomism,true that matter makes up the Universe,but yet the question of anti-matter leaves our knowledge with limited inference of information.A philosophy that needs investigation with the leaps of time.So what happens when these the Charvak,Krishna and Kanad meets on chariot??? No doubt,you end up writing a whatsoever to convey article like this..
