Therefore as the dhamma saying puts it, paramattha-dhamma is not pannatti, because it is a reality that truly exists.  Even without using any words or conventional terms to call it, that reality which has arisen is actually of those characteristics.  Pannatti, on the other hand, is not paramattha-dhamma because it is not a reality that truly exists, and it is called pannatti because it makes known in such and such a way.

 When we see pictures of mountains, the sea and trees, we recognize them as pictures of mountains, seas or trees.  And when we see real mountains, the sea and trees, what are pannatti?

 When we see pictures of grapes, rambutans and mangosteens, and when we see real grapes, rambutans and mangosteens, what are pannatti?

 Dhamma would always be true to the dhamma.  Names are pannatti because they are words that signify characteristics or meanings of realities.  But even before being called or named anything, there is already ghana-pannatti [attachment to the signs of collective realities with or without knowing what the convention terms for the object is] without necessarily knowing any languages.  There is still pannatti in things appearing, otherwise one would not recognize them.  The instant one recognizes the things appearing is the instant one knows pannatti because pannatti is to make known in such and such a way.  Even without naming them, to see painting of fruits and  real ones, which is pannatti?  Both are.

 Pannatti is not paramattha.  What are paramattha?  What are the differences between real fruits and their paintings?  In the instant of seeing through the eyes, all that appear through the eyes are not animals, people, the selves or objects of any kinds whether in the instant of seeing paintings of grapes or that of seeing the fruits.  Some might misunderstand that only the painting is pannatti, and not the fruit.  But in reality both the picture and the fruit that appear through the eyes are pannatti-arammana of the continued processes of the mano-dvara-vithi-citta because the cakkhu-dvara-vithi-citta would know the colors that appear while the mano-dvara-vithi-citta would know pannatti or the meanings of grapes, because it is made known in such and such a manner that they are grapes whether they are the grapes or their paintings, both are pannatti-arammana, and not paramattha-arammana.

 In the instant there is recognition as someone one should realize the truth that it is similar to paintings because it is already pannatti.  It is hard to eradicate pannatti at the instant one recognizes the pannatti as seeing a chair, that the paramattha-arammana that appears through the eyes and that which appears through the bodysense when there is physical contact, is not pannatti.

 Each day pannatti hides the characteristics of paramattha-dhamma through eyes, ears, nose, tongue, bodysense and mind so that one does not know realities as they truly are: that the reality appearing through the eyes, is not an entity, a person or the self, but only colors and features that appear when in contact with the cakkhuppasada [eye-sense].  Only when panna has developed until it knows the truth when seeing could it attenuates attachment to the reality as a self, an entity or a person, and know the differences between paramattha-arammana and pannatti-arammana.  The same applies to the ears, nose, tongue, bodysense and mind.

 What is the arammana while we are dreaming?  Certainly everyone dreams because the only ones who do not are the arahanta.  Everyone dreams and when they awaken they say they dreamed of elderly relatives who have passed away etc.  Do they dream of pannatti or paramattha-arammana?  If one does not examine this, one would not know because both are like seeing.  Actually when asked what one saw, one answers people, elderly relatives, friends, entities, various persons.   That is to dream of pannatti because at that instant no cakkhu-dvara-vithi-citta arises since one is asleep.  But the mano-dvara-vithi-citta arose to think thoughts and see related things about entities and people.  Therefore the instant there is dreaming, there is thinking about pannatti of things one had seen or heard, for example.  Everyone reads a newspaper.  There are various stories and pictures, too.  The instant one knows of stories and sees pictures are all instants one thinks of pannatti.  Therefore each day one does not differentiate the characteristics of paramattha-dhamma that appear from those of pannatti.  Because whether one sees through the eyes, or read books or work wherever and whenever, one always thinks of pannatti.

 Through the ears, after one is born as a baby, we often hear sounds, normally but we did not know words, or understand any languages.  But sanna, the meaning of different sounds increased, so that we thought of pannatti, the meaning of sounds remembered.  Babies see, hear, smell, taste, know bodysense contact, feel pain and anger, like, dislike and cry but they do not know the words to explain, speak, or tell until they are grown up.  Can anyone remember events when one was just born?  Even though then there was seeing, hearing etc, since there were not words to speak yet because one still does not understand the meaning of different sounds, the memory of events fade away.  Once older and one knows the meanings of sounds, languages because other than remembering visual objects one also remembers things heard through the ears.  Taken together as various stories, the world of sammati-pannatti would increase in never-ending evolution.  After reading a story in a book, they had to make it into a film to be seen and heard.  If we examine and compare, we could see how much the world of sammati hides the characteristics of the paramattha-dhamma.  For example, while one is watching TV, what pannatti are there?  What story?  Who plays which part?  It seems as though the television actors are actually real people.  But in the same way that the plays and the players are pannatti, when paramattha-dhamma arise and appear then fall away in rapid continuation, to recognize this or that person is to know pannatti as well.