Dvaita ÷ Bouddha = Advaita

The Shānti mantra or the 'mantra of peace' in the Iśavāsya Upanishad opens up as follows:

पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।

पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

The meaning of this is, 

Brahman is complete (full), the world (universe) is also complete. From the complete Brahman did this complete world emerge. Despite taking away the complete world from the complete Brahman,  the Brahman yet remains complete.

Brahman is the ultimate Super-Soul (Super-Consciousness). The above verse conveys that the Brahman is not different from this world. That is, the Brahman did not create this universe from anything outside of it. Nor does it say the Brahman is transformed as this world. It conveys, the Brahman appears as this world.

Let's recollect the rope-snake analogy discussed in one of the earlier posts. 

The rope and the snake analogy - In the dark, you think you have seen a snake when in reality it is only a rope. The rope only appears as the snake. Neither did the rope create the snake, nor did it get transformed. It 'completely' appears as the snake. When it was seen as a snake, it appeared completely as a snake, and when it is seen as a rope it is completely a rope. From this complete rope did this complete snake arose. When the snake appeared in the rope nothing increased. And, when the snake was removed from the rope nothing decreased.

From the analogy, a key question arises. Why did the rope appear as a snake? The answer is due to darkness. Similarly, it is due to our ignorance, we are seeing the world in Brahman. The next question is, what is causing this ignorance? It is Māya. To satisfactorily explain what Māya is, deserves a post by itself. For now, let us briefly see what this Māya is.

Māya literally means 'magic'. That is, which is 'virtual'. In other words, 'that which is not there'. Now, how can something that is 'not there' make something appear differently? This question can be answered using arithmetic.

From the rope-snake analogy, we saw how addition and subtraction worked on Brahman. It requires an analogy using multiplication and division to understand its relation to Māya.

From the basic arithmetic, we know that anything divided by 0 is infinity (∞). 

That is, 

1 ÷ 0 = ∞, 2 ÷ 0 = ∞, and so on.

In other words, 

∞ ✕ 0 = 1, ∞ ✕ 0 = 2,  and so on.

As we saw earlier, Māya is that which is not there, that is 0. And, Brahman is Anantam (that which doesn't have an end), which is nothing but ∞. Just like how ∞ ✕ 0 = 1, 2, ... is just an idea of how the numbers are generated from ∞ with its interaction with 0, and that the idea in itself is questionable, Māya causes an illusion that the duality arose from Brahman. 

According to Advaita, Brahman is the only Truth. Dvaita, on the other hand, specifies this world as it appears is the Truth. However, Bouddha (Buddhism) concludes everything that exists is śūnya (voidness), which is nothing but Māya. 

It was inferred from the above that,

Brahman ✕ Maya = World

It can also be said, 

Advaita ✕ Bouddha = Dvaita

Or

Dvaita ÷ Bouddha = Advaita

Reference:

Deivathin Kural (Voice of God) Volume 1, Compiled by R.Ganapathy, Vanathi Pathippakam