Vedanta - Discussion Forum I (introductory))

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Brahman is said to be beyond dualities. I think that was the intent of Sridhar too. Thats why most statemnts like 'brahman is beyond A and not-A' are fine. But treating 'reality-unreality' also as a similar duality is risky.

Existence and non-existence can't be put on opposite but equal levels. Brahman is reality itself, thats why 'sat' in sacchidananda.

Existence 'IS" and non-existence 'IS-NOT'. They can't be put on equal and opposite levels.

Existence (sat) doesn't require the reference of non-existence to be. It is self-existent. While non-existence requires a reference to existence.

Think about light and darkness. Light is made of real photons. Darkness is not made of real dark photons. It is the absence of real photons. Darkness can only be defined by a negation. Light can be defined directly in terms of photons, it doesnt need to be defined as a negation of darkness.