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Establishment of Brahman 2.25

Brahmasiddhi 2.25

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Sanskrit

2.25

yaduktam ---
bhedātmatve vastuna ekavastvabhāvaḥ, tadbhāvāditarasyāpīti vastvabhāvaḥ, tatrāhuḥ ---
parāpekṣaṃ vastuno bhedasvabhāvaṃ brūmaḥ, nātmāpekṣam, yena virodhādekavastvabhāvaḥ syāt, svarūpeṇa tvekaṃ vastu parāpekṣayā bhinnamiti /
tatrocyate ---

As for what was said:
'If the entity had difference as its self, there would be no single entity; and due to the non-existence of that, of the other as well, so there would be the non-existence of entities'—to that, they say:
'We say that the nature of difference in an entity is relative to another, not relative to itself, which would cause the non-existence of a single entity through contradiction; rather, in its own nature an entity is one, but in relation to another it is different.'
To that, it is said:

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