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123 ass' is without any differentia because it is totally non-existent. In the same way, a thing is without its differentia only when it is considered to be totally non-existent. Hence, on the assumption of Adwaitism, every-thing becomes that as being devoid of any differentiating quality.
Finally comes the ethical argument against the pantheistic conception of this school. There would be no distinction between an auspicious and an inauspicious action, virtue en sin, knowledge and ignorance or Beautitude and worldly misery. This criticism is met with by the assertion that Vedant removes the seperate existence of individual souls and makes them " bubles on the surface of water." This is said to go a long way in making altruistic morality acceptable to man. This interpretation of Adwait theory has led some savants of the west to applaud Vedic pantheism for its cosmopolitan : tendencies. But in its logical foundations as well as practical re
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