One who sees the world as a dream, freed from doubt, remains unstained

Prapañca — the phenomenal unfoldment, the multiplicity of the manifest world — is not something to be negated. It is to be seen for what it is: a projection of consciousness, not an independent substantial reality. Seeing it as a dream is not to despise it; it is to locate it. The lucid dreamer does not despise the dream — they enjoy it with the freedom of knowing it does not affect them. That is the position of the jīvanmukta: in the world but not of it, acting without grasping, experiencing without identifying.