In Hindu philosophy, turiya (or chaturtha)'s a state of pure consciousness. It's a fourth state of consciousness that underlies and transcends the three common states of consciousness: the state of waking consciousness (jagrata), the state of dreaming (svapna), and dreamless sleep (susupti). Advaita concept The first two states aren't true experiences of reality and truth because of their dualistic natures of subject and object, self and not-self, ego and non-ego. In the third state, dreamless s… (More on Turiya)