Namaste.
Benjamin writes:
"At any rate, I am quite certain that 'Brahman is Consciousness'

combined with 'Brahman is One without a second' implies the
nonexistence of the material world. To me, it is like 1 + 1
=2."

Probably you have all gone through this in the past three months
when I was not reading the advaitin postings.

Still I hasten to point out the fallacy in the above logic.
'Brahman is Consciousness'
combined with 'Brahman is One without a second' does not imply
the nonexistence of the material world. It only means that the
material world (and all that goes with it) is also
Consciousness. "sarvam khalvidam brahma". If we cannot see it
that way, the fault is ours and not that of the material world
or the logic.
praNAms to all advaitins.
profvk

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Prof. V. Krishnamurthy
My website on Science and Spirituality is http://www.geocities.com/profvk/
You can access my book on Gems from the Ocean of Hindu Thought Vision and
Practice, and my father R. Visvanatha Sastri's manuscripts from the site.

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