Why start Vedanta discussion with Mitya ?

This is the famous statement of Bhagavan Madhusudhana Saraswati in Advaitasiddhi, “tatra advaitasiddhe: dvaitamithyatva siddhipurvakatvaat dvaitamityatvameva prathamam upapaadaneeyam” – Here, the non-dual self can be established only through establishing the mityatva of dvaita (mityaness of duality), therefore the mityatva of the duality is what should be established first.

Even after 2/3 years of study of vedanta, and after teaching with that knowledge, many don’t understand what this mitya is.

I had been to an ashram 6-8 years earlier. During my stay, as some knew about my adhyayana of BrihadPrastana, word spread. One brahmachari, came to me during my evening walk, and joined me. During which he asked about the BrihadPrastana and the authors.

After which he said, “when Shankara (!) has explained everything in his bhashya clearly, what is the need of these texts”

I told him, “later period, post acharya, though, there are no errors in the bhashya, people because of their lack of understanding started mis-quoting bhashya and confused others. So, to clear this doubt they were necessary.”

The other one said, “but, bhashya is very simple and clear to understand, how come this error come there. Still, there is no necessity for those books”

I said, seeing him not to be a genuine questioner, to him, “for a person like you, don’t you see, acharyas statement Brahma Satyam Jagat Mitya Jiva-Brahma Eko Na Apara: is itself enough”.

He immediatly said, “yes, it makes everything clear, in one and half stanza”

I asked him to translate, beleive me, he said, “Brahma Truth, Jagat False, Jiva and Brahman are one and not different”

I: Let us leave the first and the last part. Now you said Jagat False, is this statement True.

He: Obviously, what is the doubt.

I: You are talking Advaita? Brahman is Truth and Jagat False is also Truth. He, without thinking said, It is false.

I: Go slowly, Again, Jagat false is false means Jagat is Truth, you still have two truths. Now, he understood what logic is, for him logic is only used to cross the road. He asked me what should I say? I told him to first understand what Mitya means. All this problem arises because of not properly understanding th KEYWORD Mitya. He asked me to explain, I told him to ask his acharya.

Though, this is a logic sequence in many texts, I had a chance to use it.