Hindu scriptures also
have a mention about modern day philosophy of enjoyment which suggest
that body is individual and there is no question of rebirth at all.
Till you live, live merrily,
Take loan and feast yourself,
The body will be reduced to ashes.
Where is the scope for re-birth?’
But this philosophy was
preached for destruction. The story is, demons wanted to defeat
demigods. So, demons’ master-Shukrachary,-decided to go to
forest to propitiate God through austere worship so that he could
seek the knowledge of turning dead into living again. He wanted to
use this power during war with demigods to make alive dead demons.
Demigods received this
information. Their master Brihaspati contrived a plot. He sent his
daughter to break Shukrachary’s worship through allurement. She
went to the forest as directed and assumed form of an exceptionally
beautiful and charming lady. Shukkrachary got attracted to her and
his sacrificial worship was destroyed.
Meanwhile Brihaspati
assumed the form of Shukrachary and went to demons who could not make
out the deception and gave him a grand welcome thinking him as their
master. Brihaspati wanted demons not to have any spiritual powers
and hence he preached demons the philosophy of materialistic
pleasures that one should enjoy the life throughly and there is
nothing like soul or God. Individual is just the body and on the
destruction of the body nothing remains. Hence no one should get
bothered by rebirth, after life and the like stupid things. He said ,
Till you live, live merrily,
Take loan and feast yourself,
The body will be reduced to ashes.
Where is the scope for re-birth?’
And also told them that
a decoy Shukrachary would soon visit the demons. ON his visit he
should be captured and put behind bars.
Demons were pleased
with this philosophy and on return of Shukrachary he found that his
clan was completely destroyed and he had suffer in jail.
Thus the modern day
philosophy of life enjoyment is the philosophy of destruction.