To the Knower, the world is but bubbles floating on his inner consciousness. All considerations like do’s and don’ts, injunctions and prohibitions, drop their relevance. There is nothing like virtue to be gained or vice to be eschewed. Good action is not anything desirable; bad is not undesirable. In fact, the Knower is freed from the entire clutches of dvandvas, pairs of opposites.

Janaka describes the Knower as a śūnya-citta, empty-minded. When the mind is not at all affected by desires, it becomes free of all strains and stresses, and becomes light and cheerful. At the same time, without any inhibition, it thinks of objects too, as a matter of course. Thinking or not thinking makes no difference to the Knower.

The entire wakefulness becomes like sleep. Whatever usual activities or interactions he does do not form any impression in the mind, causing disturbance and torment. It is virtually like sleep, sleepy wakefulness, or wakeful slumber. Meaning, the usual effects of wakeful activity are not there. Everything he sees and does is more an expression and extension of the inner Self than an infusion or intrusion from outside. The usual worldliness reflected in the mind is worn out, exhausted. Every input gets dissolved into the singular Self-expanse.