Turiya

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[edit]

↑ 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

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[1] It is the method of ‘analysis of the three states of consciousness’.

[2] Ātman means the individual soul.

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