Dvaita and Sophistry - Part 2(Reality and

[kalyan chakravarthy]

Unreality)

Namaskaaram,

TO MY FELLOW ADVAITINS

Now we all Advaitins, know that Maya is anirvachaniya,
as it is neither
real, nor unreal, nor both real and unreal, nor
neither of the two. But
you
see, a Dvaitin boasts of something called *valid
perception* and says
that
there can be only two things, real or unreal. Please
allow me to take
the
pleasure of exposing the sophistry behind the
Dvaitin's arguments.

In the Part 1, we have already seen that prameya#3
collapses. Now we
will
take a look at prameya#3 again.

The pseudo-logical web-site www.dvaita.org claims that
the entities
being
real the differences are also real.

QUESTION 1.
What if one of the entities in unreal and the other is
real?

ANSWER 1.
Why should I answer this question?

QUESTION 2.
How else will you differentiate the real and unreal?
If you cannot
answer
this question, then the difference between the real
and unreal is not
addressed and so Dvaita can be thrown into the
dustbin. And mind you,
this
difference is not just a difference in properties. No
more boastings of
Dvaita being a complete or logical philosophy.

ANSWER 3.
OK. OK. I say the difference between the real entity
and unreal entity
is
inherent to the entity.

QUESTION 4.
Which entity? The real one or the unreal one. In Part
1, we have seen
that
the difference between entity 1 and entity 2 being
equivalent, if this
difference is inherent to the first entity, then it
must be inherent to
the
second.

REPLY 4.
OK. The difference between the real and unreal is
inherent to both the
real
and unreal entities.

QUESTION 5.
As this difference is inherent to the real entity, the
difference is
real.
And as the difference is inherent to the unreal
entity, the difference
is
unreal. So, is this difference real or unreal?
Remember that Dvaita
does not
accept any stage of reality other than the real and
the unreal. So,
even
according to Dvaita, what is this difference?
IS THE DIFFERENCE REAL OR UNREAL?

NOW TO MY FELLOW ADVAITINS

Now my friends, dont you think that the sophistry of
Dvaita in
accepting
things to be only real or only unreal is exposed? Even
by their own
pseudo-logic, they directly arrive at an entity, which
is other than
real
and also other than the unreal. Thus, the Dvaitin is
deceiving himself
when
he says that there is no such thing as "neither real
nor unreal, nor
both,
nor neither".


THUS DVAITA CAN BE THROWN INTO THE DUSTBIN.

Best Regards
Kalyan



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