Thus the manifold world is seen, but no one [exists] in the ultimate sense.

Prapañca—expansion, the manifold—is a technical term for the universe of multiplicity. It derives from pra-pañc, to expand, to multiply. The world is prapañca because it unfolds in ten directions, into countless objects, into endless events. Yet na ko ‘pi paramārataḥ: no one, nothing, in the ultimate sense. This is not a nihilistic denial; it is the recognition of vivartatva (apparent transformation). Prapañca functions in vyavahāra, the practical world; it ceases in paramārtha, the ultimate view.

It is like a film: during the projection, it fully exists; when the lights are turned on, it ceases to exist. But the film does not “die”; it is simply revealed as projected light. The world does not die in enlightenment; it is revealed as projected cit (consciousness). The sādhaka who has established this vision (dṛṣṭi-sthiti) lives in the world like one who lives inside a movie: emotionally engaged, knowing it is not real, not confused about its status. They weep at the drama, but know it is drama. This is what in Sanskrit is called līlā: conscious play.