Based on our three basic states of awareness, three truths are posited – vyavahārika, prātibhāsika and paramārthika. World we interact with in our wakeful hours is vyavahārika. Many are able to remain awake together and interact with one another. Vyavahāra means interaction. As it facilitates recurring interaction, wakeful world is called the vyavahārika reality.

Pratibhāsa means superimposition. In this, the base or substratum does not undergo transformation at all. Yet, something is thrust, superimposed, on it. This phenomenon is called prātibhāsika truth. Dream is pratibhāsa. The sleeper does not undergo any change at all, even while he encounters dream, in which he travels, becomes a king, rules the kingdom for long, but gets killed in a fight against the neighbouring king. All this only to wake up before long to find him lying on the cot safe and healthy!

Janaka questions the vyavahārika as well as the pāramārthika truths, as they are related to each other and hence dependent. Dependence of any kind is denial of the status of reality. Janaka says he is not given now to any kind of deliberation, involving crisscross thinking and argumentation. The uniform Self is so much experiential to him, that it rules out all indulgences in logic, reason, propriety and the like.

He has no sukha and duḥkha also, the singular Self he experiences totally rules out the ultimate dvandvas.