Editing Charvaka (section)

===Pleasure===
{{Hedonism}}Charvaka believed that there was nothing wrong with [[sensual]] pleasure. Since it is impossible to have pleasure without pain, Charvaka thought that wisdom lay in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain as far as possible. Unlike many of the Indian philosophies of the time, Charvaka did not believe in austerities or rejecting pleasure out of fear of pain and held such reasoning to be foolish.{{sfn|Acharya|1894|p=3}}

The ''[[Sarva-siddhanta Sangraha|Sarvasiddhanta Samgraha]]'' states the Charvaka position on pleasure and hedonism as follows,{{sfn|Billington|1997|pp=44-45}}
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The enjoyment of heaven lies in eating delicious food, keeping company of young women, using fine clothes, perfumes, garlands, sandal paste... while [[moksha]] is death which is cessation of life-breath... the wise therefore ought not to take pains on account of ''moksha''.

A fool wears himself out by penances and fasts. Chastity and other such ordinances are laid down by clever weaklings.
|Sarvasiddhanta Samgraha| Verses 9-12{{sfn|Billington|1997|p=45}}}}The scholar Bhattacharya argues that the common belief that "all materialists are nothing but sensualists" is a misconception, as no authentic Carvaka aphorism have been cited by the movement's opponents to support this view.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhattacharya|first=Ramkrishna|title=Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata|publisher=Societa Editrice Fiorentina, 2009|year=2009|location=Florence}}</ref>