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UNITY IN DIFFERENCE. Vijnánvadi Buddhists hold ; nor is it different from the sum of its determinations as the Vedantins try to explain. It is a unity of all its determinations It is an ideal unity which realises itself through these particular determinations
So the partial phases of the Absolute are phenomena and these are related to the Phenomena
are but par. Absolute as the members of a living body are tsal phases related to the body itself The particular lute things of experience are aspects of the Absolute which is the all inclusive unity expressing itself through particular determinations. It is the subject, but not as correlative of the object, rather a unity implied in the correlation
The Absolute is thus the ultimate Unity. But here again the familiar conception gives Suppose.
difficulty in us trouble. If the Absolute is One, then the the accepta
tion of the Absolute is not Many. If it is unity then it is to concepnot a Plurality. The Vedāntins of the type of absolute Shankar hold that the absolute is the Unity. It is not a plurality therefore But Plurality is a stupendous fact which cannot be denied So plurality, according to those Vedāntins, is but an illusion-Mâyà (1971) and not a reality
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