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""""""""OBJECTIONS WITHIN THE VEDANTA 1317. The Charge of Nivrttyanupapatti.The removal of the Advaitin s hypotheticalignoranceis quite impossible. The individualsoul s bondage of ignoranceis determined byKarma and is a concrete reality. It cannot therefore be removed by any abstract knowledge butonly by divine worship and grace. Moreover,according to the Advaitins the differentiation between the knower, knowledge, and the known isunreal ;and even that knowledge, which is capableof removing avidya has to be unreal and has tostand in need of another real removing knowledge.Criticism. Our struggle with Karma is undoubtedly real so longas our consciousness of the truenature of Brahman has not arisen. Karma, itsdeterminations, and with iteverything else, issupposed to be real, but only so far. We have alreadyquoted passages from Sankara where he clearly andunequivocally makes this concession, vydvahdricallyfrom the (i.e., practical or empiric point ofview), as he calls it. It may therefore be called abut with the explicit understandconcrete reality,"ing that such a reality is after all phenomenal."We do not hold the efficacy of Karma in the case ofone who has attained the knowledge of Brahman ;such a man, being free from all desires and motives,all springs of action, is pari passu beyond the control of Karma in so far as he is not creating any freshand new Karma for himself. The laws of Karmaare valid within the phenomenal, but in no way do