what it is not

What it is Not

What it is Not

    A little more on Advaita: the A in Advaita means “not”.  Dvaita means “dual”. Nonduality doesn’t mean monism.  Monism is the perception that there is only one. Dualism means that there is always two. Dualism and monism are not quite the whole real truth.  If there is multiplicity in existence, this and the others, this thing here and that thing over there, then there can be no real monism.    Yet, if all things here and there in time and space are the same in essential identity, the essence of the same one source, then this is a type of monism, a monism that contains in itself a multiplicity.  So real monism is also real dualism. Yet there is no real dualism.    So it is not possible to accurately speak of the inconceivable; it cannot be said, there is monism or there is dualism.   Therefore, we say Advaita, nondualism.   It’s as close as speech can come to describing the indescribable.   We can know what IT is not: it is not two.  Heterogeneity-Homogeneity, yin-yang, all the opposites are not two.  The mind cannot conceive of real actuality, therefore all the sages who learned to see the truth of this always gave the injunction to transcend the mind.   The real truth can be known, but not through a dichotomizing mind.

 

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