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"""""128 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAfeelings ? Is it not a mystery? And what elsecould we say but that this is due to our ignorance,theerroneous transferencespokenof above ?6. The Charge of Nivartakanupapatti.This difficulty is in relation to the idea that thecessation of avidyd takes place solely by means of theknowledge which has the attributeless Brahman forits object. Brahman is not without attributes andqualities, since there are many passages which provethat He ispossessed of these. Moreover, the grammatical equations, such as Tattvam asi That artThou"),do not denote the oneness of any attributelessthing, they are not intended to give rise to thestultification of any illusion due to avidyd ;but theysimply show that Brahman iscapable of existing intwo different modes or forms. The universe is thebody of which Brahman is the soul. He is Himselfall the three entities God, soul and matter. Consequently, the knowledge which has an attributelessBrahman for its object is impossible and cannot bethe complete knowledge of truth ;and obviouslysuch an impossible knowledge of the oneness of theattributeless Brahman cannot be the remover of theavidyd postulated by the Advaitins.Criticism. The force of this objection lies mainlyin the supposition that Brahman is not withoutattributes," and it is further pointed out by Ramanujathat many passages of the Sruti prove thisthesis. In the light of Sankara s Advaita, as brieflydescribed in Chapter II, we fail to see the force of("