Soundarya Lahari - Part 315

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The three states of awareness - waking, dream, sleep - pertain to the jIva; therefore it is what happens in the microcosm (the ‘pinDa’). The three states of Creation, Sustenance and Dissolution, pertain to the Ishvara; this is what happens in the macrocosm (the ‘aNDa’).

The fourth, ‘turIyaM’, is common to both. That ‘turIyaM’ or attributeless Brahman, which is the substratum behind the saguNa-Brahman, that is Ishvara, is the very same ‘turIyam’ that lies as the ‘Atman’, the substratum of the three states of the jIva.

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