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Rick Ved
SEVEN STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Vedic literature describes seven states of consciousness. We are all aware of three states — waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, though in deep sleep, there is no awareness, but the physiology functions differently in each of these three states. There are four higher states of consciousness — Transcendental Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, God Consciousness, and Unity Consciousness. When we close our eyes in the TM technique, we experience finer and finer levels of the thought so that it is less overshadowing to our awareness. That thought is a vehicle to take us to finer levels of thinking until that thought slips away and we are left with only our awareness, pure wakefulness without being overshadowed by that thought. Because the mind is no longer bound by a thought, it is unbounded, infinite. That is Transcendental Consciousness or Pure Consciousness, the fourth state of consciousness.
Fifth state: When Transcendental Consciousness is experienced frequently over months or years it becomes so familiar to our experience that it stays with us even while we are out of meditation while walking around in waking state, while dreaming, and while in deep sleep. This is Cosmic Consciousness. We aware of our own Self as unbounded while we experience the relative world as it was before. Both at the same time. We are one with that unboundedness while only witnessing the outer world as not ourselves. Before this state appears, we have all lost our unbounded awareness because it is focused on objects of experience and therefore lost in the object. We don't even exist. Cosmic Consciousness means we are separate from activity an in our true nature in perfect peace and non-attachment. In much of the literature from India, all of it misinterpreted, there is much talk of "non-attachment", that to get enlightened we must not be attached to the world. This is why being a recluse or going into an ashram or cave was thought to be the only way to get enlightened. But true non-attachment is not something we force. It is something that just happens automatically when we discover our true identity as unbounded.
Sixth State. With more advanced TM techniques, we are able to experience more subtle levels of thought until we experience the most subtle level of thought, where it is so faint that it is almost perfectly still, almost at the level of Pure Consciousness, almost infinite and Absolute. That finest level of thought is experienced at the gap between the thought and pure unbounded awareness, Pure Consciousness. In this gap is where God is found — a light brighter than a million Suns in infinite and ever-increasing bliss so great and so powerful we back away from it at first because we think we might be burned up by its fire. But we will not be burned up. Just embrace it. In this state, the relative world and the Absolute world are almost the same.
Seventh State: With further progress, and without using a technique, in just the passage of time, we automatically move to Unity Consciousness where the relative world and the Absolute are experienced as the same thing. All is One. Everything is Absolute. and eternal The Absolute eternal is Absolute and the relative world is Absolute and eternal. We experience no difference between them. In this state of consciousness we are totally at the mercy of God’s will, so every thought we have is in tune with His will. Every thought will be automatically materialized. This is the Rule of Ram Raj I have been talking about, where we each rule our own Universe. This is the final stage of Enlightenment where we are the only person who exists and we are finally One with God as we all should be. That is our birthright. We fell from this state long ago and have now returned to it. This state is coming for all of those who enter Sattyug with reversal of aging, physical immorality, creating our own Universe to live in, creating other Universes, perceiving perfection everywhere, and never returning to ignorance again. This state is eternal.
---Rick Ved
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