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## Chapter 2
**26**
**Samantbhadra-Bharati**
(Besides this, the question arises: Is the realization of non-duality achieved through a cause or simply by words without any cause? In response:) If it is said that the realization of non-duality is achieved through a cause, then the acceptance of both cause (means) and effect (goal) leads to the establishment of duality - non-duality does not remain absolute - and if realization is said to be achieved without any cause, then doesn't the mere use of words lead to duality? - The goal of non-duality and the words by which the realization of the goal is declared, both exist, and therefore non-duality does not remain. And it is not possible for something that does not exist itself to prove the existence of something else or to declare its realization. Therefore, the realization of absolute non-duality cannot be achieved in any way, it remains only a mere imagination.
**Non-duality cannot exist without duality**
*Advaitam na bina dvaitaad heturiva hetuna | Sanjnanaha pratishedo na pratisheadhyadrute kvacit ||27||*
(One more thing needs to be explained, and that is) Non-duality cannot exist without duality, just as a cause cannot exist without a non-cause; because nowhere does the negation of a named entity - the negation of something that is negated - occur without the existence of the thing being negated - the word "duality" is a named entity, and therefore the word "non-duality", which is its negation, cannot exist without the acceptance of the existence of duality.)
[Thus, the doctrines like Brahma-Dvaita, Sanvedana, and Shabdat, which advocate absolute non-duality, are found to be flawed and contradicted.]