TURIYA

 

If you ask what that is, it is called Turiya, which means the fourth state. Why is this name used? This name is proper because it seems to say the three states of your experience – waking, dream and deep sleep – are foreign to you and your true state is the fourth, which is different from these three. Should the three states – waking, dream and deep sleep – be taken to form one long dream, the fourth state represents the waking from this dream. Thus it is more withdrawn than deep sleep, also more wakeful than the waking state. Therefore your true state is that fourth one which is distinguished from the waking, dream and deep sleep states. You are That only.

Swami Sahajananda Tirtha

The path chosen by a human being to meet the creator is always unique to that individual. And the Supreme Divinity’s grace is always present, no matter which path is taken. The idea of the Divinity is unique and different for every individual, as the nature of earthly knowledge possessed by each person differs.

(Yajur Veda)

begins perceiving in all living beings a part of himself. He becomes a lover of all, a part and parcel of the Universal Joy. He flows with the stream of happiness, and is enriched by each soul.The one who loves all intensely

Brahma Jnanavali Mala, Adi Sankara

 

Brahman is real. The world is a delusion. Atman is nothing but Brahman.  It is the perfect philosophy as declared by the Vedanta. 

Aurobindo

 

“be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity. To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning. This is the transfiguration of thyself on the mountain. It is to discover God in thyself and reveal him to thyself in all things. Live in his being, shine with his light, act with his power, rejoice with his bliss. Be that Fire and that Sun and that Ocean. Be that joy and that greatness and that beauty”

Chinmayananda

 Forgetting his own Real Nature, which

is all-pervading Consciousness, a person comes to misunderstand himself to be the matter envelopments which are nothing but thought-created encrustations around the Divine in him. Perceiving through the prism of the body, mind and intellect, he sees Truth splashed and splintered into endless plurality and the objects give a delusory enchantment to the senses and the mind. To satisfy these urges of his body and mind, the individual runs after the objects. Such a deluded person, having misunderstood his Real Nature, becomes the 'samsaric' ego-centre, a victim of his own ignorance. This fall of the Self to be the selfish ego is spiritual suicide

Ramana Maharshi

“That inner Self, as the primeval Spirit, Eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite Bliss, Single, indivisible, whole and living, Shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness. That self in its splendour, shining in the cavity of the heart This self is neither born nor dies, Neither grows nor decays, Nor does it suffer any change. When a pot is broken, the space within it is not, And similarly, when the body dies the Self in it remains eternal.”

Chögyam Trungpa

If we face ourselves properly, fully, then we find that something exists in us that is basically awake, as opposed to asleep. We find something intrinsically cheerful and fundamentally pride-worthy. That is to say, we don’t have to con ourselves. We discover genuine one-hundred-percent gold, not even twenty-four carat. We are fundamentally awake. You might think this is just an old myth, another trick to cheer us up. But no! It is real and good.

The Upanishads

 

The Spirit is beyond sound and form, without touch and taste and perfume. It is eternal, unchangeable, and without beginning or end; indeed above reasoning. When consciousness of the Spirit manifests itself, man becomes free from the jaws of death

Prashna Upanishad 3:5-7

 

“And then at the moment of death, through the nerve in the center of the spine, the Udana, which is the fifth Prana, leads the virtuous man upward to higher birth, the sinful man downward to lower birth, and the man who is both virtuous and sinful to rebirth in the world of men.”