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Detailed explanation-1: -The Carvaka do not believe Moksha or liberation as highest goal or ‘Summum bonum’ or parama-purusartha. They regard kama or the enjoyment or the sensual pleasure as the highest end of life. To acquire sensual pleasure they can do everything. Carvaka’s message regarding liberation is-avoid pain and gain pleasure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Charvaka, also called Lokayata (Sanskrit: “Worldly Ones”), a philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation (moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Indian Philosophy liberation means complete cessation of sufferings. The concept of liberation entails someone’s state of bondage and anticipates the possibility of his. or her release into a state of freedom. It is perhaps the biggest idea in man’s quest of happiness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charvaka holds direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference as proper sources of knowledge, embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects ritualism and supernaturalism. It was a popular belief system in ancient India.