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32. Q.- I believe in Brahma and Mâyâ. What
ever arguments and theories you have propounded are the products of Mâyâ. Brahma is one ever lasting, conscious, blissful and pure existence.
A.-0! Believer in monism! the position
which you have now taken up is extremely wrong. Is Mâyâ separate or non-separate from the Brahma ? If separate, is it sentient or insentient ? If insentient, is it eternal or transitory. If you say that it is eternal it uproots the monistic creed because when it is separate from God and is insentient and ever lasting it means that you have yourself admitted the truth of the dualistic theory and undermined that of the monistic doctrine. If you say that Mâyâ is transitory even then you cannot do away with dualism, because whatever is perishable is an effect and an effect is another form of cause, and on this statement the material cause of Mârâ cannot be shown. If you say that the cause of the Mâyâ is another Mâyâ, you reason in a circle and the monistic
