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sushupti

सुषुप्ति suṣupti

Deep dreamless sleep, awareness without objects; the third of the four states in the Mandukya Upanishad, mapped to the sound M of OM.

Where this term appears

  • Not This, Not This Treatise

    The third is sushupti , deep dreamless sleep, in which there are no objects at all, neither outer nor inner, and awareness rests as an undivided mass, the text says, a state of peace from which one wakes saying…

  • Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities

    Another reads them as the three ordinary states, jagrat , waking, svapna , dream, and sushupti , deep sleep, the three the self passes through and is never confined to.

  • The Three Cities Treatise

    The first reading is the three states of consciousness - jagrat (waking), svapna (dreaming), sushupti (deep sleep).

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