If a beast slain as an offering to the dead will itself go to heaven,
why does the sacrificer not straightway offer his father?

Carvaka

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Bowl with mouth below and bottom up.
In it: a multitude of forms
On its rim: seven seers
And true speech the eighth

Atharva Veda

Sense-perception belongs to the sleeping soul, the part of the soul immersed in body; and the true awakening is a rising up, not with the body, but from the body. . . To rise up to very truth is altogether to depart from bodies. Corporeality is contrary to soul and essentially opposed to soul.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends….
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Therefore one must follow the universal law, namely, that which is common to all. But although the law is universal, the majority live as if they had an understanding peculiar to themselves.

Yoga is the suppression of the modifications of the mind. Then the seer abides in Itself. At other times the seer appears to assume the form of the modifications of the mind.

The source of coming-to-be for existing things is the same into which destruction, too, happens according to necessity; for they pay penalty and retribution to each other for their injustice according to the assessment of time.

The threefold actions result in subliminal drives that will later come to fruition.

The infinite has no beginning, . . . but seems to be the beginning of other things, and to surround all things and guide all . . .