[Advaita-l] Fwd: Vedavyasa concludes that perception of dvaita, duality, is due to delusion

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Vedavyasa concludes that perception of dvaita, duality, is due to delusion
As Shankaracharya says in his commentary to Mandukya Gaudapada's Karika:
अद्वैतं परमार्थो हि द्वैतं तद्भेद उच्यते ।
तेषामुभयथा द्वैतं तेनायं न विरुध्यते ॥ १८ ॥ Advaita Prakarana 3.18.
Bhashya:
द्वैतिनां तु तेषां परमार्थतश्चापरमार्थतश्चोभयथापि द्वैतमेव । यदि च तेषां
भ्रान्तानां द्वैतदृष्टिरस्माकमद्वैतदृष्टिरभ्रान्तानाम्, तेनायं
हेतुनास्मत्पक्षे न...
Advaita is transcendental, Dvaita is the opposite of that: relative. That
is, duality is not real. For dualists, vyavahara and paramartha, samsara,
moksha are both duality and difference. Therefore dualism is delusional.
Advaitin's vision alone is not flawed.
There is a complete concordance of Vedavyasa for this statement of
Shankara. In Veda Vyasa's literature on countless occasions the perception
of bheda, difference, is said to be delusion, moha darshan. Here are just a
few examples from that corpus:
Bhagavatam: 11.23.49
देहं मनोमात्रमिमं गृहीत्वा
ममाहमित्यन्धधियो मनुष्या: ।
एषोऽहमन्योऽयमिति भ्रमेण
दुरन्तपारे तमसि भ्रमन्ति ॥ ४९ ॥
It is taught that knowing this self-conceived body as I, and knowing the
other as different, one becomes deluded in this darkness of ignorance.