Merging with principle is still not enlightenment. Each sense and every field interact and do not interact. When interacting they also merge, otherwise, they remain in their own states. Forms are basically different in material and appearance. Sounds are fundamentally different in pleasant or harsh quality.
Darkness is a word for merging upper and lower.
Light is an expression for distinguishing pure and defiled. The four gross elements return to their own natures like a baby taking to its mother. Earth is solid. Eye and form, ear and sound, nose and smell, tongue and taste. Thus, in all things the leaves spread from the root.