Critique of Vedanta: Even if you--the Vedantin--say that the body does not exist, you do not, you cannot, deny that you experience it. Then there must be something which suggests the experience to you. This too you will admit and will name this something as Maya, which you describe at the same time as the mysterious power which creates the World-Illusion--and with it, the body-illusion--for us. This bestows on Maya a power equal to the power of God, since it makes God--whom you say we really are--forget himself. So there are then two supreme realities! This is an untenable position. What is the use of the Vedantic talk of living as if the body did not exist? Who is deceived by it? Certainly not the Vedantin himself, for in all his actions he has to take the body into his reckoning. The philosopher, who keeps himself deliberately disengaged even while he is busy in and with the world, accepts the body for what it is, neither overvaluing nor undervaluing it.
-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 372
