..glad for the inspiration hardboiled..thank you..keep inspired..
and hi Tattvamasi..yes i meant 'Turyia', it was a typo, apologies
yeah the Mandukya Upanishad was given in full earlier in the thread..it's verse 7 that is key, and describes Turyia..'the fourth' state..which you gave a good summary of
..much love also
it would be nice to look at some more of the upanishads in the thread, as they are a core of the subject..
..with vedantan practice, the mind is trained to focus on the objective..with the 'buddhi' (intuitive intellect) and 'jnana' (knowledge - by direct experience) focused on Brahman, the yogic union emerges..
sometimes through initially the focus on a symbolic object, such as Om, or an 'embodied' god(ess)
..the objective being the non-dual state, or 'Self', as vedanta calls it..
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here's a good vedanta talk, looking at some of the issues just discussed:
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