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credulity. The irony and sarcasm of the Charvakas was directed especially
at the priests and the ecclesiastical machinery of the Hindu religions; the
priests and Brahmins being derided as rogues robbing the people of their
sustenance; the ritual was regarded as a farce, and sacrifices and offerings
as clever means of the priests to subsist upon the ignorance of the masses;
the Vedas were derided as wordy masses of drivel and falsehood and vain
imaginings; and the philosophers as cheats who “palm specious promises for
gold”; God or Brahman was denied, and Matter was raised to the altar. Such
was the ancient school of the Charvakas. The modern Hindu Materialistic
school has softened the Charvaka teachings somewhat, and its doctrines
and writings are now very similar to those of the Western materialistic
school of the Nineteenth Century. A number of modern Hindus now affect
the prevalent Agnosticism or Naturalism of the West, claiming to have
“advanced” beyond metaphysics and spiritualistic philosophy. But these
dissenting thinkers are lost to sight among the millions of adherents of the
old schools of thought.
Special Message VI.
In our messages of the past three months we have given you the Axioms
of Truth—those symbols whereby we seek to enter into an understanding
of the nature of Truth. We have given you these Axioms, as symbols, for
the reason that by reason of them our spiritual understanding is aided in
unfoldment. We are unable to grasp the idea of the nature and essential
Being of Truth, and must rest content with the statement that it is identical
with Spirit, which also is ineffable and incapable of being expressed in relative
terms. And only by the employment of symbols are we able to picture to
ourselves the aspects of the nature of Truth, and our relation thereto. And
so we have invited you to consider these several symbolic axioms, from
month to month. We have now given them to you in full. Meditate over
them often, that the Message of the Truth may sink into your consciousness,