…complete symmetrical logic and complete unconsciousness. Is such a state of mind actually attainable? Yes, supposedly it is. It would correspond to what in Vedanta is called “the fourth state,” or Turiya. It is the pure consciousness of the Atman which transcends the three states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep.

Sri Aurobindo described turiya as “the consciousness of our pure self-existence or our absolute being with which we have no direct relations at all.” It is “a trance in which one has gone completely out of the body. In more scientific parlance it is a trance in which there is no formation or movement of the consciousness and one gets lost in a state from which one can bring back no report except that one was in bliss.”
posted by Gagdad Bob at 9/28/2007 08:36:00 AM   

One Cosmos Under God Robert W. Godwin

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