Turiya
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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:
References
- ↑ It is the method of ‘analysis of the three states of consciousness’.
- ↑ Ātman means the individual soul.
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore
