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| | Deep Sleep and turIya |
 | | Deep sleep (turIya) is that which underlies all of our experience, the 'stone' and, indeed this is all that there is, in fact. |
 | | Thus, to recap, deep sleep is the condition underlying all of the other states and, once appreciated, is seen to be, in effect, all there is. |
 | | Since illusion and reality never co-exist, there were never four states in the first place, but three (illusory ones), from the vantage point of an illusory personal entity, or one (reality), from the vantage point of consciousness. |
| www.advaita.org.uk /discourses/past_messages/deepsleep_waite.htm (595 words) |
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