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    It is not the case that The phenomenal empirical world and nondual brahman do not stand in genuine contradiction because they belong to asymmetrical orders of reality.

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    • 1.Asymmetrical ontological hierarchies still require a coherent account of the relation between levels, which itself must belong to one tier or neither.
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    • 2.If the relation between vyāvahārika and pāramārthika belongs to neither tier, a third ontological category is implicitly introduced, undermining the two-tiered schema.
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    • 3.If the relation belongs to the ultimate tier, then empirical reality is genuinely internal to brahman, collapsing the asymmetry that was meant to prevent contradiction.
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    • 1.Rāmānuja argues in the Śrī-Bhāṣya that calling empirical experience 'lower reality' rather than 'false' still grants it a determinate ontological status brahman must accommodate.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Therefore the asymmetrical hierarchy either demotes empirical reality to sheer illusion—reinstating contradiction—or qualifies brahman, defeating non-dualism.
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    • 1.The conventional empirical reality (vyāvahārikasattā) and ultimate reality (pāramārthikasattā) constitute a two-tiered hierarchy.
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    • 2.A hierarchy of asymmetrical orders avoids mutual contradiction between its levels.
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