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Detailed explanation-1: -Sankara’s philosophy is also known as ‘Mayavada’. According to him, this world is nothing but the creation of maya. About the nature of maya he holds that it is an indescribable power. Maya is indeterminable or indescribable because it is neither real nor unreal.

Detailed explanation-2: -The world is neither totally real nor totally unreal. It is not totally unreal since it is experienced. It is not totally real since it is sublated by knowledge of Brahman. There are many examples given to illustrate the relation between the existence of the world and Brahman.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Shankara, Brahman is the one and only reality. Brahman is Being, Consciousness, and Bliss. Brahman is infinite, formless, and perfect. Brahman is all-inclusive and all-perceiving.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is Non-dualism. Key Points. Samkara is the most influential philosopher of the Advaita, or nondualistic, school of Vedānta philosophy in India. He was considered the incarnation of the god Śiva.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shankara follows the monism embeds in the Upanishads and declares that Brahman is the only ontological Reality everything else is just name and form. It is attributeless, indeterminate and without a second. It can be only conceive as Existence, Knowledge and Bliss.