Three principles of Drishtantaism that can affect the world. Drishtantaism, an ultramodern Lokayata (mostly known as Charvaka) philosophy of the Indian subcontinent, came to the notice of intellectuals in the late 2010s. It was proposed by Shobuj Taposh as the next Philosophy of Postmodernism and founded with a mixture of Eastern and Western theories.
- God + Allah = There is nothing.
- Neither theist nor atheist, but religious.
- Be good only for saving yourself and the world.
In the three principles, the political side of Drishtantaism has been exposed. Here, God isn’t neglected at all, but to create conflict, setting the question of God in explaining the complicated world is not indulged. The philosophy doesn’t take important opposing to God.
God and Allah
According to Drishtantoism, the given equations below are not appropriate:
| God | + | Allah | = | 0 |
| God | + | God | = | 2God (if God = Allah) |
| Allah | + | Allah | = | 2Allah (if Allah = God) |
| God | + | Allah | = | Gallohad |
Allah cannot be God. It is believed that Allah gives The Quran, and God gives the Bible. If the Quran and the Bible are not the same matter, then God plus Allah is not equal to 0. So, God + Allah = there is nothing. Besides, because of being a number, the summation of the two may not be 0. God ≠ Allah. Because all Christians who do not read the Quran do not maintain the Eid festival; in reverse order, all Muslims who do not read the Bible do not maintain Christmas. For this, without opposing, Drishtantaism avoids any divine/Godly matter.
Neither theist nor atheist, but religious
Drishtantaism is a philosophy that is neither for theism nor for atheism, but it trusts that man is naturally religious. Carl Jung said, “Our mind (psyche) is, by nature, religious”. His claim is theistic. He, depending on his cognition/feeling at the time of speaking on a dream, said, “I find that all my thoughts circle God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.” (quoted it from his autobiography, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, 1962). So, the Drishtantoistic religion is different from the theistic religion. What is the Drishtantaistic religion? According to philosophy, a man’s natural and biological behaviour is his religion.
Here, faith is avoided. Shobuj Taposh claimed if a man is devoted to his body and nature, he needs no faith. Nature means a man’s surroundings. Homeland is mainly considerable. The philosophy avoids faith, as it loves the man. But faith is contempt to a man. Because of remaining the matter of ‘slavery’ and ‘mastery’ here, the philosophy doesn’t receive it cordially. Besides being near to belief, faith is, to a great extent, God-based. But because of being neither a theist nor an atheist, the philosophy avoids God. To Taposh, if a man is devoted to his body and nature, he must be sympathetic to the world and must neglect otherness. In this sphere, the philosophy is near to Postcolonialism. In Drishtantaism, Patriotism is accepted as the main religion.
Be good only for saving yourself and the world
The philosophy requests man to be good ethically. If a man becomes so, he will express honest courage for saving himself. In this way, if all men save themselves ethically, the world will be saved from all the problems: religion-based belligerency, terrorism and all kinds of conflict. In principle, God is not neglected but avoided. Avoidance doesn’t mean opposing God but staying far from the being. According to the philosophy, it is impossible to have worldly peace by opposing/ignoring traditional religion. Again, by giving importance to it, it is impossible to have earthly peace, too. Kant said, do duty for the sake of duty. The imperative is philosophy. According to philosophy, man will do tasks for the world.
