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“Turiya”, the “Fourth State”—Prior to all conditional states, the Witness of it all

Turiyatita – state of integration where awareness is never lost [“beyond fourth”] /pure consciousness/non-dual awareness


Turīyātīta (तुरीयातीत):—Pratyabhijñā claims that the state of perfection achieved by its sādhana is beyond and above the turīya, the “fourth state” of the Upaniṣads: it is Turīyātīta, Śiva-consciousness, in which the individual experiences the self as identical with the entire universe and with Śiva.



Adi Da from "My Bright Word":

"The gross, the subtle, and the causal are psycho-physical and

temporary in nature. They correspond to the three states—

waking, dreaming, and sleeping—into which experience is

analyzed, in certain traditional texts. As the traditional Indian

texts declare, “Turiya” (or the “Fourth State”) is Prior to these

three conditional states. In other words, the Witness-Consciousness

is the State fundamental to all of those three states.

The Witness is not the religious person, not the Yogi, and not

the intuitive (or causal) seeker, but “Turiya”, the “Fourth State”—

Prior to all conditional states, the Witness of it all. And even

greater than the Witness-Consciousness is Most Perfect Divine

Self-Realization, “Turiyatita”, “Beyond the Fourth”—Unspeakable,

neither formless nor formed, partially intuited but never truly

Known before My Avatarically Self-Revelatory Divine Appearance

here. “Turiyatita” is the “Regenerated” Amrita Nadi, the Perfect

Form of Reality, Whose Very Nature is the True Divine Heart.

Therefore, Truth is not (Itself) to be equated with any conditional

process, with the opening of any particular knot, with the solution

of any particular dilemma."




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