Turiya — The Fourth State Beyond All
Mandukya Upanishad · 1 · Verse 7
Sanskrit Original
नान्तःप्रज्ञं न बहिष्प्रज्ञं नोभयतःप्रज्ञं न प्रज्ञानघनं न प्रज्ञं नाप्रज्ञम् । अदृष्टमव्यवहार्यमग्राह्यमलक्षणमचिन्त्यमव्यपदेश्यम् । एकात्मप्रत्ययसारं प्रपञ्चोपशमं शान्तं शिवमद्वैतं चतुर्थं मन्यन्ते । स आत्मा स विज्ञेयः ॥ ७ ॥
nāntaḥprajñaṃ na bahiṣprajñaṃ nobhayataḥprajñaṃ na prajñānaghanaṃ na prajñaṃ nāprajñam | adṛṣṭam avyavahāryam agrāhyam alakṣaṇam acintyam avyapadeśyam | ekātmapratyayasāraṃ prapañcopaśamaṃ śāntaṃ śivam advaitaṃ caturthaṃ manyante | sa ātmā sa vijñeyaḥ || 7 ||
Not conscious of the inner world, not conscious of the outer world, not conscious of both, not a mass of consciousness, not conscious, not unconscious — unseen, beyond transaction, beyond grasp, without distinctive marks, unthinkable, unnameable, the essence of the one-Self experience, the cessation of the phenomenal world — peaceful, benign, non-dual. That is what they call the Fourth. That is the Atman. That is to be known.