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APPENDIX.
Serial number.
Name of the
stage.
Characteristics.
10
Sush uptiswupna
Sushuptisushupti
12
Sushupti-turyu
Recognition during deep sleep of the fact that one's previous states of waking and dreaming consciousness “were both merely the results of one's own mental activities." Full awareness during deep-sleep of the “mindless "condition of one's mind, that is to say full consciousness of one's own unconsciousness, i.e., of the unconscious condition of deep-sleep. This is but a temporary condition and either merges into the next higher stage, that is, turya, or lapses into the dreaming state, or is followed by waking up, due to a sensation similar to that of throttling. If the aspirant has no love for his personality left in him he will pass beyond this stage ; otherwise he will return to dreaming or wake up altogether. Expansion of the ego or self into the all-pervading ocean of life and joy, ever conscious, ever existent, ever blissful. Here one" sees the whole universe in him and himself in the whole universe, and actually feels that both the waking and the dream worlds are his own mental creation. This is called the state of samadhi by the yogis." He who reaches this stage is called a Jiwan-mukta. This is the description of turya. Beyond this is turya atit which will be described after four other stages that intervene on the path of knowledge unaccompanied by perfection in renunciation. Persistence of desire for doing good, and liability for “assuming a personality and appearing in the world as an uvatara or prophet."
Turya-sugrat
Turya-swapnia
The desire for doing good now extends to devatas (gods or the residents of the celestial world). The 'dreamer' might now " come down as Brahma, Vishnu or Mahesh in creation."
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