Ankit Hooda· 3y
At least from chinese or tibetan accounts, we know that charvakas believed in devas which included celestial entities. About charvaks and buddhist more conclusions are drawn than what their writings suggest. If you don't believe in prophets which give The God’s words, u r going to be atheistic, with theistic conclusions being result of bad logic. Except for medieval claims by mimansikas about a-human origins of vedas, we don't find any divine truths. IMO, Truth is that all darshans believed in vedic gods, that would become necessary to operate phenomenon in absence of knowledge of natural laws which can explain phenomenon, atmospheric, terrestial, biological. That we can learn also from buddhists who took vedic gods to east asia. In absence of such explanations one is bound to believe in devas.
Interesting description above regarding the "caravakas" "having" Devas according to tibetan/chinese accounts. This is an obvious reflection of the term carvaka being used for ordinary egoists not interested in Moksha (revelers in sense pleasures using ISKCON terminology), which was secondarily and deceptively remapped onto (western) atheism by missionaries and Enlightenment indologists. To even conceive of a world without Deva-s requires the monotheist category of alienation which, in abrahamism, is applied at the level of cosmos (ie God) as well as at the level of the individual believer (western concept of consciousness refers to this sentiment of alienation, in contrast to indication with the underlying/implicit "Consciousness" of Brahman in Eastern ontology).
A qualification of the above quote: It is likely that in East Asia, the residual element was buddhist after the vedic element had diminished.
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