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==== '''Final Liberation''' ==== Liberation is seen by many thinkers as the ultimate aim of human existence. Again, liberation is seen as the complete eradication of all suffering. Some believe it can only be gained after death when the soul is liberated from the body; others think it can be attained while one is still alive. However, the Carvaka system contends that these opinions are illogical and unreasonable. Because there is no such thing as a soul, it is ridiculous to say that liberation is the soul's release from its shackles to physical life. But if achieving a state free from all sorrow in this particular life is what emancipation entails, then that is likewise an unachievable ideal. Both pleasure and pain are a part of existence in this body. Liberation in the sense of complete cessation of suffering can only mean death (Chatterjee & Datta, 1948, 74)<sup>3</sup>.
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