Turya

Turya

Turya, turiya

the state of the deepest trance - the fourth, one of the highest (penultimate before kaivalya), states of consciousness, attainable in yoga; a state that corresponds to Atman, which is outside of the states:

• wakefulness "jagrat" (area of acts, desires, suffers)
• light sleep "svapna" (area of pleasant-unpleasant and dreams)
• oblivion, or deep sleep "sushupti" (where no longer exist feeling of anything, but attachment to the body remains).