Charvak Philosopohy is one of the major streams of Indian Philosophy that have not influenced much of the so-called Hindus in India; though, it seems to have influeced the philosophy of Buddhism and Jainism. I gather that Charvak philosophy believes in Lokayat or what we see and perceive through our senses is what exists: the body, mind, physical universe et all are what exists and there is nothing beyond. This view therefore does not allow the scope for God to exist outside of whatever we see and perceive (unless of course the sage philosopher Charvak had admitted the imagination of God as something that cannot be seen or comprehended and yet perceived to be somewhere inside everything and containing everything else that we can see and perceive through our senses including the mind and the intellect: in which case Charvak would have to agree with the infinite, ceaseless Paramatma God as defined in Gita or the Adaitabad derived from the Upanishads: Charvak philosophy is developed also from certain parts of the Upanishads). So, Charvak philosophy accepted the political leader and ruler of human beings, then called Kings, as God/s because the reality is the accepted and observed supremacy of the Kings. Modern World also believes in this Charvak philosophy conclusion: those who rule citizens/ nationals by using or abusing the sovereign powers of the God ad therefore can behave like all powerful Kings are Gods.
In the current hierarchy of Gods, there are Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ministers and people representatives however elected or selected are all parts of the God, Almighty.
At childhood I had heard my Bengali folks say that Charvak philosophy prescribes the rule 'Wrinam Krutitwa Ghreetam Peevet' meaning one must borrow to consume the relatively expensive healthy and tasty milk-based product called Ghee (a class of clarified butter that originated and commonly used in Indian and neighbouring south Asian countries like Bangladeshi, Nepali and Pakistani). As a child I would wonder who could continuously get borrowings to consume Ghee if does not have the prospect of earning income enough to repay the loans borrowed to finance consumption of Ghee. Now I understand what Charvak meant some 4 millenniums ago: Political Rulers, currently called National Governments can only practice this prescription. They have the powers to borrow without limit, if necessary by repaying past borrowings by raising fresh increasingly large amounts of borrowings and enjoy the comforts of life and distribute such comforts to what the Political leaders in power consider as their henchmen of vote-gathering constituent agents.
The modern national governments are publicised as all powerful God containing all the nationals' as their subservient subjects and make their over-bearing omni-presence in each national can promise to solve all problems in the World and carry out whatever activity they would like to (they can get their Constitutions amended any time to increase the coverage of their operation in the name of economic growth, justice to all, reduction of inequity, restoring balance in economic fluctuations, creation of unemployment and x- or t-protecting regulation). So borrowing ans consuming is the foremost priority and privilege of national governments. And even if they bring in disasters and inflict economic slowdown, loss of jobs and high inflation, national governments are assured of the continued existence - if necessary only the politicians using or abusing the all pervasive powers may change from time to time.
Therefore, the Government of Ireland remains in existence despite defaulting in debt. Greece, the Great Defaulter stays afloat and other national Gods have already waived repayment obligations on 50% of Greece's outstanding defaults in debt. Political rulers, democratically elected institution of Governments, are assured of bail outs from their emerging situation of debt default. France and the US governments have questioned the authority of down-grading their credit worthiness rating by private rating agencies and brushed such down-grades as foolishness. The Sovereign Government of China forces the nationals not to consume beyond 50% of their earnings and lend almost the entire amount to the Govt. or government sposored agencies. So does India's national governments at the centre and the provinces, running fiscal deficits at close to 8% of the national income. Except for a few governments in the world, political regimes are completely addicted to debt and fresh borrowing - desire that is insatiable.
Charvak probably did not say how long and how far the almighty powerful Gods can go on borrowing and enjoying the comforts of life in this material World!
