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Detailed explanation-1: -Shankara teaches that Atman is the Self of all individual beings. Atman is uncreated and eternal. It may dwell within a body, but it does not depend on the existence of a body. Wrong knowledge may be produced by the false perception that the Self actually belongs to a body.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indian epistemological tradition comprises six important sources of knowledge. They are: perception (pratyaksa), inference (anumana), verbal testimony (Sabda), comparison (upamana), presupposition (arthapatti) and non-apprehension (anupalabdhi).

Detailed explanation-3: -In Advaita epistemology there is a gradual unfolding of mental mode. Sankara advocates three levels of reality-the transcendental reality, empirical reality and apparent reality. All objects, Sankara holds, are real in their own levels of existence. His philosophy teaches us the gradual unfolding of reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -Metaphysics is the philosophical study of reality. Epistemology is the study of knowledge itself. Both are crucial branches in philosophy as a discipline, as they are all about challenging questions about the nature of the self and the world.