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the one that is dualistic, will continually have confusing thoughts about the one who is non-dualistic. Now, they cannot go beyond this confusion based on ego (vikalp). When you say that the Atma is dualistic – non-dualistic (dwaita-adwaita), it means that you have gone beyond the confusion that is based on the ego (vikalp), and that is called an egoless state (nirvikalp).
Therefore, the Gnani Purush says it exactly as it is; that the Atma is dualistic – non-dualistic (dwaita-adwaita); it is dualistic (dwaita) and it is also non-dualistic (adwaita). How long will this adjective of dwaita-adwaita (dualistic – nondualistic) apply? While it is involved in the worldly life, it is dualistic, and when it is contemplating on its own Self (Swadhyan), then it is non-dualistic. There is the body and there is also Absolute Knowledge (Keval Gnan); therefore it is considered dualistic - non-dualistic (dwaita-adwaita). People see the man and they also see the Absolute Gnani (Keval Gnani). However one sees it; that is how it will appear! Therefore, the Atma never becomes non-dualistic (adwaita). That is because, when it leaves the body from here, and attains final liberation (moksha), then there in Siddha gati (abode of Liberated Souls), it will lose its adjective. The adjective is there as long as the body is there. Therefore we have to accept these adjectives. Those who are stuck in the hole of non-dualism (adwaita), would be considered ekantik (adhering to a single viewpoint, while excluding all other viewpoints), and if they are stuck in the hole of dualism (dwaita), they are also considered as adhering to one single viewpoint (ekantik). And if you accept any path that is ekantik, then final liberation will never come into your hands. If you want to attain the Truth, one has to side with non-insistence on one's own truth or viewpoint (niragraha). Insistence (aagraha) itself is ego.
Truth (Satya) certainly exists in everyone, but only according to one's own degree. Each one's truth is according to his own measure. And the truth according to the world
