Answer: Sankracharya
was an orthodox Brahman for whom all the Vedic literature was sacred and
unquestionably true. To harmonise its many paradoxes he had recourse to an
expedient already known in Buddhism, that of a double standard of truth. On
the every day level of truth the world was produced by Brahama, and went
through an evolutionary process similar to that taught by the Sankhya school
from which Sankracharya took over the doctrine of the three guns. But on the
highest level of truth the whole phenomenal universe, including the God
themselves, was unrealthe world was maya, an illusion, a dream, a mirage, a
figment of imagination. Ultimately the only reality was Brahman, the
impersonal world soul of the Upanishads, with which the individual soul was
identical.
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