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Conclusion
When the entire universe looks like the left over food or like a dream, it is considered the enlightened state; otherwise it is mere verbal knowledge. (140)
Explanation & Discussion: This stanza gives other significant signs of enlightenment. To an enlightened person the entire universe seems like the left over or rejected food. This concept can be better understood by analyzing the worldly phenomenon. It is a scientific truth that the world consists of infinite atomic particles pervading everywhere. The physical bodies as well as everything else in the world are composed of such particles. The worldly souls adopt the particles at the time of body-formation and leave them at the time of death.
That process of adopting and leaving has been going on continually. During the infinite time that has elapsed, every particle in the world must have been adopted by each soul several times. As such, the entire world consists of the particles that have been adopted and released. Is that situation not comparable to the used or left over food?
To an enlightened person the entire universe therefore seems like the rejected food and is worthless. It is identical to the articles to be disposed off like vomited food. To take an illustration from routine life, if left over or vomited food is strewn over the dining table, who would like to occupy that place? To the enlightened persons every thing in the universe is comparable to that situation. On that very account when Rathnemi, brother of Lord Neminäth, displayed his attachment for Räjul, she brought him back to detachment by comparing his attachment to the vomited food.
As an alternative, the stanza states that the enlightened person looks at everything in the world as a dream. Quite a
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