Question:

Dear Ektaji, I have one question. One must BE in rest to observe one in motion. I am Turiya, and Turiya is consciousness in motion. How can I witness 8 arising in the Waking world and the Dream world, which is consciousness in motion?

Answer:

Let me clarify the position of Turiya.

• • • You are the Witness of the Waker. You are not the Waker. You are only pretending to be the Waker.
    • You are the Witness of the Dreamer. You are not the Dreamer. You are only pretending to be the Dreamer.
    • You are the Witness of the Sleeper. You are not the Sleeper. You are only pretending to be the Sleeper.

The realization of yourself as the Witness of the three states enables you to quit pretending. The dropping away of the pretense naturally reveals that you are the fourth state or Turiya awastha.

Moving forward in your self-exploration, you recognize that the fourth state is also not constant. Turiya collapses into an emptiness and arises back out of the emptiness.

This is the next level of realization: Turiya dissolves into something beyond. That which is beyond Turiya is called Turiyatita or Consciousness at rest. If Turiya is born of it and dies into it, Turiya cannot be different from it. Turiya is a droplet of the same Ocean of Turiyatita.

This direct SEEing in Samadhi or Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana [Wake-Dream-Sleep exploration] reveals that Turiya cannot be anything other than Consciousness at rest?

• • • It only pretends to be the Waker and the Waking World.
    • It only pretends to be the Dreamer and the Dream World.
    • It only pretends to be the Sleeper and the Sleep World.

All 8 arisings of perception of sight, perception of sound, perception of smell, perception of taste, perception of touch, thought, feeling, and sensation are only an illusion that appears and disappears. Turiya only pretends to be Consciousness in motion that can grasp the projected 8 arisings. Just like you pretend that you can fly in the sky in your dream. But once you are awake, you brush the pretense aside. Similarly, when Turiya quits pretending, it is Awake, it realizes that it is Consciousness at rest itself, or Brahman or Turiyatita.

SEE directly, don’t believe Ekta blindly. Take this tip, practice Swapna Nidra Gnyana Sadhana or Wake-Dream-Sleep exploration, and attempt to SEE the collapse of the Turiya or the I-sense into Turiyatita or Nothingness, which ignorantly you have termed as Deep Sleep. 

Don’t quit unless you prove this to yourself by direct seeing, my dear. Go beyond the idea of Deep Sleep to Turiyatita!

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