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enjoy the same. But dreams are not true and they disappear at the instant of awaking. As the dreaming person wakes up, he realizes that he was simply availing of a dream; the fanciful situations visualized during the dream had no reality. Similarly all the worldly situations look ephemeral and unrealistic to the enlightened persons.
Identification and attachment that the worldly soul feels with the body and other environments is thus illusory and arises out of its ignorance and unawareness of the self. The enlightened person considers all the worldly situations dreamlike, and therefore does not attach importance to any of them. Since it is not possible to get the truth without overcoming the illusion, only those who set aside the illusion of the dreaming state can be considered enlightened. The so-called enlightened persons, who do not satisfy this criterion, are merely verbally knowledgeable.
Sthänak Panch Vichärine, Chhatthe Varte Jeh; Päme Sthänak Panchmun, Emän Nahi Sandeh.
Pondering over the five stages (Fundamentals), if one acts as stated in the sixth, he would undoubtedly attain the fifth stage (State of liberation). (141)
Explanation & Discussion:
Of the six Fundamentals, the first five have to be properly understood and the last is meant for practicing. This stanza therefore states that if one truly understands the first five Fundamentals by contemplating over them, and then if he puts into practice what is stated in the sixth, he would surely attain liberation. In other words, if one is convinced of soul and its wandering, and proceeds on the path of liberation as stated in the sixth, he would reach the destination (liberation).
The Letter of Six Fundamentals (Appendix-II) states: "The enlightened persons have described the teaching of these Fundamentals for the sake of removing the sense of ego and attachment of the worldly soul. That sense arises from one's dreaming state, which has been prevailing since the time without beginning. If the soul realizes that its true nature is beyond that state, it would easily come out of it and gain right perception. By acquiring right perception, it would attain the liberation in the sense of realizing its true Self. Contemplation of these Fundamentals can thus lead it to experiencing its own natural purity, perfection, imperishability, and infinite bliss."
Since the concept of liberation has been dealt with in the fifth Fundamental, it is said in the stanza that those, who contemplate over the first five stages and practice as per sixth, would attain the fifth stage.
