 Given Gelug’s stance on conventional truth as actual truth and its argument for the equal status of the two truths, Gelug must now address the question: How can conventional truth, which is unreal (false) and deceptive, be truth (real) at all? In other words, how can the two truths be of equal status given if conventional truth is unreal (false)? The success of Gelug’s reply depends on its ability to maintain harmony between the two truths, or their equal footing.There are several arguments by means of which Gelug defends this. The first, and the most obvious one, is the argument from the two-nature theory. It argues since two truths are grounded in the dual nature of a single phenomenon, then “just as the ultimate reality of the sprout [for instance] is taken as characteristic of the sprout, hence it is described as the sprout’s nature, so, too,” explains Tsongkhapa, “are the sprout’s color, shape, etc., the sprout’s characteristics. Therefore they too are its nature” (1992: 406). Since the two natures are ontologically mutually entailing, the sprout’s ultimate truth cannot exist ontologically separate from its conventional truth, and vice versa. Neither truth could exist without the other.