What is God? Part-II

The Charvakas, the original source of atheism in the East, said, ”Don’t worry, enjoy eating butter even if you have to borrow money.” Don’t be worried about paying it back. Who borrows? Who pays back? One dies and everything is left behind – yours as well as his. And nothing remains afterwards.

When nothing remains what is the fear. If you want to sin, sin. If you want to do evil, do it. Live freely the way you want to. It is a life of just two days, drop all worries and live it in style. Even if the other is hurt, even if violence is inflicted upon the other, don’t worry about it. What violence, what hurt? It

is all a facade created by the priests to frighten you.

But if we enter into a Charvaka’s mind the same fear is there. He is denying god out of fear.

God is not just unknown. Here lies the difference between religion and science. Religion says, there are three types of things in the universe: the known – which has already been known; the unknown – which will be known; and the unknowable – which is not known and will never be known.

Science says there are only two categories in the universe: the known and the unknown. Science divides the universe into these two categories – that which is known and that which will be known. The unknowable: in this one word the whole essence of religion is hidden. There is something which has never been known and never will be known, because its mystery is such that one who seeks it disappears into it.