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The Differences Between Advaita Vedanta and Shankara

In Advaita Vedanta, there is only the one Brahman and everything else is a kind of illusion. This means that all multiplicity we experience as other than Brahman is unreal in a sense. We falsely see all these things in the world and superimpose self-existence and identity upon them but in reality none of it's real because it's all the Brahman. In fact, writers like Shankara argue precisely in opposition to nihilism.

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