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Con il sostantivo maschile sanscrito cārvāka indicati a volte anche come lokāyata si indica in quella lingua i seguaci dell'omonima scuola filosofica materialista che si ritiene contemporanea al buddhismo antico, fondata, secondo alcune ben più tarde fonti, dal leggendario Brḥaspati. Va subito detto che le fonti che attestano l'esistenza di una simile scuola hindū sono decisamente scarse.

Più raramente viene usato anche il termine Nāstikā nel significato di “coloro che negano”. Infatti in sanscrito asti è colui che crede nelle divinità, nāsti quello che non ci crede. La dottrina cārvāka è considerata fortemente blasfema oltre che atea perché nega alcun valore a uno dei pilastri fondamentali della religiosità indiana, i libri sacri Veda, e con essi tutta la dottrina, i rituali e la mitologia ad essi legati. Cārvakā, lokāyatā e nāstikā sono considerati quindi in India gli atei materialisti. Il primo termine è però quello più noto e che in relazione ai suoi sviluppi nel tempo è il più significativo sotto il profilo filosofico. Scuola di pensiero molto antica e considerabile pre-induista essa è radicalmente materialista e ateista originaria dell'India. Wikipedia  

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“In fact, the Lokayata operated and developed as a tradition of universal criticism or negativism, without caring to evolve a durable or regular life-order, a socio-cultural order, of its own, with the result that it failed to commend itself to society at large. No wonder that a branch of the Lokayata, the Nilapata school, so called because its members dressed in blue, were responsible for inception of what may be called an inculture, a tradition of wanton living, about which it is said:…That is: ‘How can the Nilapata feel happy till rivers begins to overflow with wine, the mountains are made of meat, and the world is full of women?”

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Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990) (quoting Puratanaprabandhasangraha)

“The Lokayata is not an Agama. viz. not a guide to cultural living, not a system of do's and don’ts; hence it is nothing but irresponsible wrangling.”

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Jayanta Bhatta, quoted from Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990)

“In every country and every human breast there is a natural desire to find a stable equilibrium — something that does not change. We cannot find it in nature, for all the universe is nothing but an infinite mass of changes. But to infer from that that nothing unchanging exists is to fall into the error of the Southern school of Buddhists and the Chârvâkas, which latter believe that all is matter and nothing mind, that all religion is a cheat, and morality and goodness, useless superstitions.”

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Swami Vivekananda as recorded in the complete works of Swami Vivekananda https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_1/Lectures_And_Discourses/The_Hindu_Religion.

“Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. They have died out now, and most of their books are lost. They claimed that the soul, being the product of the body and its forces, died with it; that there was no proof of its further existence. They denied inferential knowledge accepting only perception by the senses.”

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Swami Vivekananda as recorded in the complete works of Swami Vivekananda https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_7/Inspired_Talks/Friday,_July_5.

“There were the Chârvâkas, who preached horrible things, the most rank, undisguised materialism, such as in the nineteenth century they dare not openly preach. These Charvakas were allowed to preach from temple to temple, and city to city, that religion was all nonsense, that it was priestcraft, that the Vedas were the words and writings of fools, rogues, and demons, and that there was neither God nor an eternal soul. If there was a soul, why did it not come back after death drawn by the love of wife and child. Their idea was that if there was a soul it must still love after death, and want good things to eat and nice dress. Yet no one hurt these Charvakas.”

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Swami Vivekananda as recorded in the complete works of Swami Vivekananda https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_2/Jnana-Yoga/Maya_and_the_Evolution_of_the_Conception_of_God.