Materialism: a brief synopsis.
Today i am writing about the term "Materialism" in response to a question I received in facebook message. A short introduction is as follows: The concept of Materialism is very objective. It changes its meaning with time. If one were to say that real materialism started with the industrial revolution of the European nations that would be big fallacy. Materialism started way before then that. Out of the six basics branches of the Hindu pantheon we have a branch that is wholly attributed to Maharishi Charvaka and his upanishad, "CHARVAKA UPANISHAD". The bible of materialism. It has a very famous sloka: " यावज्जीवेत सुखं जीवेद ऋणं कृत्वा घृतं पिवेत , भस्मीभूतस्य देहस्य पु नरागमनं कुतः " The very essence of the sloka means "if you have to live a life, live life in full pleasure, borrow money and have delicacies made of ghee, because when you die its the end of life and there is no reincarnation". This sloka was said by one of the Rishi's of Hin...