vedarthasangrah aof ramanujam14.. criticism of advaita continued

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14. The refutation of the advaita view that the

cause alone is real.

 

Na ethath evam,

 

It is not so.

 

ekavijnaanena sarva

vijnaana prathijnaanam, sarvasya miThyaathve sarvasya jnaathavyasya abhaavaath

na sethsyathi;

 

If everything is unreal, nothing

deserves to be known. Then the statement that by knowing one everything is

known is not tenable.

 

sathyamiThyaathvayoH

ekathaaprasakthiH vaa;

 

Or it would that the real

is identical with unreal.

 

api thu ekavijnaanena

sarvavijnaana prathijnaa sarvasya thadhaathmakathvena eva sathyathve siDhyathi

 

Only when all the entities

are real by having the One, Brahman as their inner self and hence the unity

being that of the body and the self, the statement that the knowledge of one leads

to the knowledge of all becomes true.

 

Then Ramanuja explains the real implication of

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