Just as the double moon does not remain upon awakening, so this universe does not remain at all when Consciousness dawns.

The analogy of awakening (prabodha) returns to the motif of the double moon with a crucial variation: it is not the healing of the eye that removes the second moon, but awakening to the real situation. This distinguishes epistemological correction from ontological elimination. The second moon is not “destroyed”—it never existed to be destroyed—but is instead no longer seen through error.

“Cidbodhe”—when the dawn of Consciousness breaks—uses the same verb (budh, to awaken) to describe gnoseological illumination. This dawn is not an event that happens to something; it is the manifestation of what always was. The sun is not born from the night; the night is the temporary absence of what the sun always has been.

“Na tiṣṭhati sarvathā”—it does not remain at all—does not mean the world vanishes into an empty darkness. It means the world ceases to remain as independent, as real in itself. The world may continue to appear—just as the moon continues to appear after correcting double vision—but its mode of appearance has fundamentally changed. It is no longer attributed its own reality; it is recognized as an appearance dependent on the consciousness that knows it.

The analogy of awakening (prabodha) returns to the motif of the double moon with a crucial variation: it is not the healing of the eye that removes the second moon, but awakening to the actual situation. This distinguishes epistemological correction from ontological elimination. The second moon is not “destroyed”—it never existed to be destroyed—but is instead no longer seen through error.

“Cidbodhe”—when the dawn of Consciousness breaks—uses the same verb (budh, to awaken) to describe gnoseological illumination. This dawn is not an event that happens to something; it is the manifestation of what always was. The sun is not born from the night; the night is the temporary absence of what the sun always has been.

“Na tiṣṭhati sarvathā”—it does not remain at all—does not mean the world vanishes into an empty darkness. It means the world ceases to remain as independent, as real in itself. The world may continue to appear—just as the moon continues to appear after correcting double vision—but its mode of appearance has fundamentally changed. It is no longer attributed its own reality; it is recognized as an appearance dependent on the consciousness that knows it.