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present it fairly! But I will try. Meanwhile, you can study it 
in the Upanishads, in the Bhagavad-Gita, in Ernst Haeckel's 
The Riddle of the Universe, and dozens of other classics. The 
dogma appears to excite its dupes to dithyrambs. I have to 
admit the "poetry" of the idea; but there is something in me 
which vehemently rejects it with excruciating and vindictive 
violence. Possibly, this is because part of our own system 
runs parallel with the first equations of theirs. 
K. The Monists perceive quite clearly and correctly that it 
is absurd to answer the question "How came these Many 
things (of which we are aware) to be?" by saying that they 
came from Many; and "Many" in this connection includes 
Two. The Universe must therefore be a single phenomenon: 
make it eternal and all the rest of it-Le., remove all limit of 
any kind-and the Universe explains itself. How then can 
Opposites exist, as we observe them to do? Is it not the very 
essence of our original sorites that the Many must be 
reducible to the One? They see how awkward this is; so the 
"devil" of the Dualist is emulsified and evaporated into 
"illusion"; what they call "Maya" or some equivalent term. 
"Reality" 
for them consists solely of Brahman, the 
supreme Being "without quantity or quality." They are 
compelled to deny him all attributes, even that of Existence; 
for to do so would instantly limit them, and so hurl them 
headlong back into Dualism. All that of which we are aware 
must obviously possess limits, or it could have no intelligible 
meaning for us; if we want "pork," we must specify its 
qualities and quantities; at the very least, we must be able to 
distinguish it from "that-which-is-not-pork." 
But-one moment, please! 
L. There is in Advaitism a most fascinating danger; that is 
that, up to a certain point, "Religious Experience" tends to 
support this theory. 
A word on this. Vulgar minds, such as are happy with a 
personal God, Vishnu, Jesus, Me1carth, Mithras, or another, 
often excite themselves-call it "Energized Enthusiasm" if 
you want to be sarcastic! -to the point of experiencing actual