The states of consciousness and the untouched supreme

PS_34

Emanation, maintenance, and dissolution; waking and dream and deep sleep — these shine forth in that abode, the turīya / turya (the 'Fourth', state beyond waking-dream-sleep); yet even so [the Fourth] shines unveiled by them.

PS_35

Waking is [governed by] Viśva [the all-pervading], because of differentiation; dream is Taijasa [the luminous], because of the predominance of inner light; the deep-sleep state is Prājña [the wise], because of being a dense mass of knowledge; and beyond that is the Fourth (turya).

PS_36

Just as the vault of the sky is not [really] sullied by cloud, smoke, and dust, so the supreme Person remains untouched by the modifications of māyā (the Lord's self-veiling power of differentiation).

PS_37

When the space within one pot is filled with dust, the [spaces in] other [pots] do not [thereby] become sullied; just so are these individual souls (jīva), each partaking of its own differentiation of pleasure and pain.

PS_38

When the assemblage of [psychic] principles is calm He [seems] calm, when it is elated [He seems] elated, when it is deluded [He seems] deluded; but the Blessed One is not, in the highest sense (paramārtha), [truly] so.

PS_39

Having first dispelled that appearance of [the Self's] form in the non-self, the supreme Self [then] shatters the [contrary] error which [imputes] the form of the non-self to the Self.

PS_40

For the supreme yogin, thus fulfilled by the uprooting of this twin-delusion at its very source, there never arises any thought of anything further to be done.