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    It is not the case that A brahman that accommodates a lower order of real appearance is itself conditioned by that appearance, violating Śankara's claim of brahman's absolute non-relational purity.

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    • 1.Accommodation need not imply conditioning: brahman can appear-as without being affected, like space containing objects yet remaining unaffected by them.
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    • 2.Maya operates at the epistemic level; appearances don't condition brahman's nature but only condition individual consciousness, preserving brahman's purity.
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    • 3.Relational language describing brahman doesn't necessitate real relational properties—it reflects linguistic/conceptual limitations, not brahman's actual constitution.
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    • 1.If brahman accommodates lower appearances, it must possess relational properties that distinguish it from those appearances, compromising its non-duality.
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    • 2.Śankara's advaita requires brahman's complete independence; any conditioning by appearances introduces causal dependency, violating absolute freedom.
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    • 3.The very act of 'accommodating' presupposes brahman's capacity to be affected or modified by what it accommodates, entailing internal limitation.
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