The verse uses the paired opposites of waking (நனவு) and dream (கனவு) to point to a yogic/gnostic reversal: both are treated as unstable appearances. “Calling waking a dream” implies devaluing ordinary empirical certainty—loosening attachment to sensory-cognitive constructions. “Removing the dream by calling it waking” can be read as a second move: the mind’s tendency to reify inner images (visions, dream-knowledge, subtle experiences) is also denied ultimate status. In Siddhar and broader yogic discourse, both external and internal phenomena are appearances within consciousness; neither is to be clung to.

The third line is a classic cryptic instruction: “to make thought into a thought that does not think” (நினைவை நினையா நினைவாக்கில்). This suggests a practice where the mind is not forcibly suppressed but is used to undo itself—akin to self-inquiry, discriminative seeing, or a meditative stance in which thoughts arise yet are not followed, owned, or elaborated. The “thought that does not think” can indicate: - a reflexive awareness that notices thought without entering its content, - the subtlest vṛtti that leads to cessation (a “thorn removing a thorn”), or - a stabilized non-conceptual clarity (nirvikalpa-like) where mentation is present only as a transparent trace.

“Abiding in the steady state” (நிலைகொள்) is crucial: the instruction is not a momentary insight but stabilization. From a Siddhar standpoint, such stabilization can yield “siddhi” (சித்தி): this may include yogic powers, mastery over mind-body processes, or—more fundamentally—accomplishment as liberation/realization. The line “whatever will be accomplished” keeps the claim broad, while the tradition often implies that true siddhi is the unshakable state itself, with other powers considered secondary or even distracting.