Man in Search of Immortality by Nikhilananda;

Author:Nikhilananda;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

The above description is not to be understood as suggesting that Turiya is a state of total annihilation or non-existence, like the non-existent son of a barren woman or the horns of a hare. After the realization of Turiya or even after a mere glimpse of It, one realizes the universe as truth, knowledge, infinity; as goodness, peace, beauty, and non-duality. No experience, illusory or otherwise, can exist without a substratum; the mirage cannot exist without the desert. As waves and bubbles subside into the immeasurable, serene and homogeneous water of the ocean, so likewise do all names and forms, all experiences of the three states, subside into Turiya. When the illusory names and forms are discarded, the mirage is realized to be the desert, the snake the rope, and the waves and bubbles the ocean; likewise when the names and forms projected by maya are discarded, every experience is regarded as Turiya or Pure Consciousness. Turiya is the universe and man in their true essence. Realization of Turiya is the true immortality of the soul.

Sankaracharya wrote the following hymns in praise of Turiya:

‘I bow to Brahman, which experiences (during the waking state) gross objects by covering the universe with the tendril-like rays of Its consciousness, enfolding all movable and immovable entities; which, further, experiences during the dream state the objects produced by the mind due to desire; and which again, in deep sleep, absorbs the various particulars and enjoys bliss, while making us also experience, through maya, the same bliss—I bow to the supreme, immortal, and birthless Brahman, designated in terms of maya as Turiya, the Fourth.’

‘May that Turiya, which, as the World Soul, experiences in the waking state gross objects, good and evil; which, again, experiences in the dream state other and subtle objects produced by Its own mind and illumined by Its own light; and which, lastly, in dreamless sleep withdraws all objects and remains devoid of distinctions—may that attributeless Turiya protect us!’

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