turiya
तुरीय turīya"The fourth"; the awareness beyond waking, dream, and dreamless deep sleep, identified in the Mandukya Upanishad with the silence after A-U-M.
Where this term appears
- Why is Om chanted at the start and end of prayers and yoga? Journal
And it says this silence is the fourth state, turiya , pure awareness itself, the absolute behind waking and dreaming and sleep.
- What Does Om Mean? Deities
The Mandukya calls this the fourth, turiya , the still awareness that underlies all three states and is itself Brahman .
- What is a Mantra? Worship
The silent fourth, turiya , simply "the fourth," is the ground under all three, the awareness that does not come and go.
- Nada, Bindu, and Om Treatise
… silence into which the syllable dissolves, and the Mandukya calls it turiya , simply "the fourth." It is soundless, the text says, beyond grasp, the cessation of the manifold, peaceful, without a second.
- Not This, Not This Treatise
And then the Mandukya points past them, to what it calls simply caturtha , the fourth, or turiya , by the same meaning.
- The Mandukya Upanishad: twelve verses, four states, one sound Treatise
… the Mandukya says caturtha , "fourth," while the Brihadaranyaka says turiya and the Maitri says turya , and "all later philosophical treatises have the form turiya , which came to be the accepted technical ter…
- The Three Cities Treatise
The fourth state - turiya - the awareness that is neither asleep nor dreaming nor awake but is the witness of all three, is Lalita herself.