Difference between revisions of "Turiya"
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Revision as of 06:40, 2 November 2016
By Swami Harshananda
Turiya literally means ‘the fourth’.
Treatises on Advaita Vedānta take recourse to a method called ‘avasthātraya-viveka’[1] to prove the existence of the ātman[2] as pure consciousness beyond the body-mind complex. Since it persists through all the three states of consciousness it is called the ‘turīya’ or ‘the fourth’. The three states are:
- Jāgrat - waking state
- Svapna - dream state
- Suṣupti - deep-sleep state
References
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore