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APPENDIX,
XXV
.
Serial number.
Name of the
stage.
Characteristics.
Turyasushupti.
Persistence of the desire of karun (seed) world." One might now become the Lord Hiranyagarbha (the golden egg). “He has practically achieved the goal, but the last obstacle is not yet removed, and he still remains the seed or the egg from which creation may spring at any time."
16
Turyu-turya
Elimination of the desire for creation. Maya, however, still exists in this stage potentially. In this condition, "the Ishwara identifies himself with the world as its creator or source. He is an impartial spectator and rejoices in witnessing the play of maya, his consort, as a magician rejoices in the performance of tricks which he himself knows to be sham and baseless in nature."
The goal beyond the sixteenth stage is the turya atit or final awakening, where maya and the trinity of the knower,' ' knowledge and the 'known' merge into the non-dual Absolute. It is beyond inind and speech both; and," says the guru Vasishta, “there are no means in my power nor in that of and body else to give you even an idea or a mental picture of this ultimate Reality."
Such is the path of progress and such the goal depicted by the venerable Vasishta of the Land of Dreams. A glance at the tabulated description of the stages is sufficient to show that they are not the natural rungs of a ladder of causes and effects leading up to perfection in knowledge or happiness or anything else, but truly and essentially landings on an erratic flight of steps to the empty attic of hallucination ; for the artificial happiness induced by auto-suggestion is no more real than a juggler's rupee, which cannot pass current as a genuine coin. The force of suggestion is apparent at each stage beginning with the fifth, which is the first above the normal. The analysis of the mental condition of the dreamer ” himself, who claims to have reached the sixth
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