The Fourth State of Consciousness

The Fourth State of Consciousness

The following essay is from my friend, Tejas of the Surat Center, India. It is a sketch of the unsketchable. A peek at the highest state of consciousness available to all of us.

There is an existence free from any kind of relationship, which we know as reality itself.

God is also a description which we compare with the word Brahman.

For example, such words are said about God that He is everywhere, omniscient, omnipotent, but all these words are His attributes. But they do not represent His form. And so finally a great definition of Him came which says - God is the Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer of all.

However, we all know that there is something above and beyond all.

What is such an essential element?

Which by its own right reigns in the greatness of itself and in its own glory?

What is such a light which cannot be perceived by anyone else?

Such a light shines but there is nothing else like it. That is perfection, which is called Turiya or the Fourth.

Why is it called so?

It is not gross, subtle, or casual.

It is not a dream, wakefulness, or sleep.

Therefore, what is other than these three, that is why it is a Fourth, that is, here the Fourth is merely a number. But it indicates a state and condition above and beyond all these.

It is.

It is not.

It is both what is and what is not.

It is not both what is and what is not.

Nothing can be said about it because everything is woven into it or merged into it.

A “because” definition means comparison of qualities.

Subject, thing, place and time are all illusions of context.

That word, meaning, logic, inference, conclusion, comprehension, comparison, nothing like that applies to it.

So, what is realization? Or how does it happen?

Just knowing that - 'that' is.

What is the reality of all reality?

The answer is - 'that'.

It is the Fourth State of consciousness.

Atma means here that the fourth is not a number but is called the fourth state in comparison to dream, wakefulness, and sleep.

The fourth means only one state which surpasses the other three. That is - 'the state of immeasurable existence without measure.'

If we look at it this way, there is no end to the experiments for this search, our end comes.

Therefore, the Upanishad writer says the secret of the search for self-realization that -

The soul realizes itself to whom it chooses.

Apart from this, no one can help seeing it.

Finally,

the experiments stop.

The ego is dissolved.

It takes the place of your own person.

You disappear and He enters the stage.

That is the soul for which we live in this world.

That is the fourth state of consciousness.

That is - the soul - the Supreme Soul - Brahman.

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Braham hides cow herds, Bhagavita Purana, Cleveland Museum of Art