Turiya in Vedanta - Pravrajika Divyanandaprana

Fundamentals of Vedanta by Pravrajika Divyanandaprana 🔻
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In Hindu philosophy, turiya (Sanskrit: तुरीय, meaning "the fourth") or chaturiya, chaturtha, is pure consciousness. Turiya is the background that underlies and pervades the three common states of consciousness. The three common states of consciousness are: waking state, dreaming state, and dreamless deep sleep.
Understanding of Turiya
Advaita Vedanta:
Advaita posits three states of consciousness, namely waking (jagrat), dreaming (svapna), deep sleep (suṣupti), which are empirically experienced by human beings, and correspond to the Three Bodies Doctrine:
The first state is the waking state, in which we are aware of our daily world. This is the gross body.
The second state is the dreaming mind. This is the subtle body.
The third state is the state of deep sleep. This is the causal body.
Advaita also posits the fourth state of Turiya, which some describe as pure consciousness, the background that underlies and transcends these three common states of consciousness. Turiya is the state of liberation, where according to the Advaita school, one experiences the infinite (ananta) and non-different (advaita/abheda), that is free from the dualistic experience, the state in which ajativada, non-origination, is apprehended. According to Candradhara Sarma, Turiya state is where the foundational Self is realized, it is measureless, neither cause nor effect, all pervading, without suffering, blissful, changeless, self-luminous, real, immanent in all things and transcendent. Those who have experienced the Turiya stage of self-consciousness have reached the pure awareness of their own non-dual Self as one with everyone and everything, for them the knowledge, the knower, the known becomes one, they are the Jivanmukta.
Advaita traces the foundation of this ontological theory in more ancient Sanskrit texts. For example, chapters 8.7 through 8.12 of Chandogya Upanishad discuss the "four states of consciousness" as awake, dream-filled sleep, deep sleep, and beyond deep sleep. One of the earliest mentions of Turiya, in the Hindu scriptures, occurs in verse 5.14.3 of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The idea is also discussed in other early Upanishads.
Adi Shankara:
Adi Shankara described, on the basis of the ideas propounded in the Mandukya Upanishad, the three states of consciousness, namely waking (jågrata), dreaming (svapna), and deep sleep (susupti), which correspond to the three bodies:
The first state is that of waking consciousness, in which we are aware of our daily world. "It is described as outward-knowing (bahish-prajnya), gross (sthula) and universal (vaishvanara)". This is the gross body.
The second state is that of the dreaming mind. "It is described as inward-knowing (antah-prajnya), subtle (pravivikta), and burning (taijasa)". This is the subtle body.
The third state is the state of deep sleep. In this state, the underlying ground of consciousness is undistracted. "[T]he Lord of all (sarv’-eshvara), the knower of all (sarva-jnya), the inner controller (antar-yami), the source of all (yonih sarvasya), the origin and dissolution of created things (prabhav-apyayau hi bhutanam)". This is the causal body.
In the waking consciousness, there is a sense of 'I' (self-identity) and awareness of thoughts. In the sleep or dream state, there is no or little sense of 'I'; however, there are thoughts and the awareness of thoughts. Waking and dreaming are not true experiences of Absolute Reality and metaphysical truth, because of their dualistic natures of subject and object, self and not-self, ego, and non-ego.
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Thank you for the amazing explanation. I got a question, since the three states of jagrat, swapna and shushupti, according with modern neuroscience are states where different frequencies are active in the brain: beta on waking state, alpha on dream state and delta on deep sleep. But it is known that in early childhood delta waves are more active, about between 7 to 12 years old alpha waves are more active and after 12 beta waves become more active. And it's known too that beliefs are more firmly impressed on subconscious when alpha waves are dominant, what haves great influence on a person behaviour later. What can be said from Vedanta point of view about such relation between wake, dream and deep sleep states and mind activity expressed in predominance of different frequencies of brain waves as a child grows old, specially when the mind is more susceptible to learning (alpha waves that is more active on dream sleep and ages between 7 to 12)? And if deep sleep is related to bliss, can we say that because of predominance of activity of delta waves, a child below 7 is always in bliss? What about samadhi, may have more active delta waves active on a brain of someone on that state?

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