History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c71.s1.3

v5.c71.s1.3

¹ In these days many people, both in the East and the West, question the very existence of sın As Barbour puts it in his 'Sin and the new Psychology' (p 19) "The feeling is gaining wide acceptance that there is no such thing as sın in the Christian sense. Evil may encompass a man's life and bring disaster to his personality, but it is not sın It is psychic evil that can be explained by psychic causes and perhaps cured by psychological therapy .. Many say 'nothing is right and nothing is wrong Every thing is the result of complexes' It has resulted in an easy tolerance of sın" Sır Oliver Lodge in his article on 'Christian Doctrine' in the Hibbert Journal for 1903-4 at p 466 says 'The higher man of to-day is not worrying about his sins at all, still less about their punishments His mission, if he is good for anything, is to be up and doing and in so far as he acts wrongly or unwisely he expects to suffer' The followers of Cārvāka who was the prince of Atheists in ancient India used to say 'man should live among pleasures as long as life lasts, he should feed himself sumptuously (lıt. should drink ghee) even by borrowing money from others There is no coming again into the world after the body is reduced to ashes by cremation'.