Is Advaita Vedanta post-truth?

A week ago, I posted a quote from Robert Adams. It says:

Reality is something we make up with our finite minds. We say, ‘Absolute Reality,’ Pure choiceless awareness. Brahman.’ We say, ‘This is Reality.’ For we don’t know what we’re talking about… There is no such thing as Reality, to begin with. Nothing is real and nothing is unreal.

A Muslim friend responded and said, “This is post-truth. No longer about what is true…”

Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 — March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. I was not aware of him when he was alive. But his teachings have been widely circulated amongst those investigating the philosophy of Advaita and the Western devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Adams was not a Buddhist. But there is a lot of similarity between Buddha’s teachings and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta. The notion that the world is Maya (or an illusion) pervades all Indian philosophy. The Diamond Sutra concludes with the following:

So you should view this fleeting world —

A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,

A flash of lightening in a summer cloud,

A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Were Adams’s teachings “post-truth”? It depends on what we mean by “reality.” Note that “reality” is…