gudaakesa:

gudaakesa (gudaakesha). Master of senses; thick-haired (Arjuna). A person who has overcome sloth, sleep, and ignorance.

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thuriya:

thuriya (thureeya). "Beyond" stage in samadhi; fourth stage beyond waking, dream, and deep sleep. Superconscious state.

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Somnambulist:

1. a person who performs physical activity while asleep also known as sleep-walking.
2. a person in a deep hypnotic state.

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Svapna (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root svap to sleep]

The dreaming-sleeping state of consciousness, "the state of consciousness more or less freed from the sheath of the body and partially awake in the astral realms, higher or lower as the case may be" (OG 72).

The second of the four states of consciousness mentioned in Yoga philosophy, the others being jagrat, sushupti, and turiya. Svapnavastha is the dreaming-sleeping state.

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Turiya (Sanskrit). A state of the deepest trance - the fourth state of the Taraka Raja Yoga, one that corresponds with Atma, and on this earth with dreamless sleep - a causal condition.

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Prativindhya

A son of Yudhishthira and Draupadi, murdered in his sleep with his brothers during the Battle of Kurukshetra while they were still in their teens.

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PSYCHIC MIND: the subconscious, or unconscious, mind in which we receive psychic impulses. The psychic mind is at work when we sleep, dream, and meditate.

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ASTRAL BODY - subtle or dream body that disengages during sleep/through consciousness techniques; exact replica of the physical body with a higher frequency of vibration. (NAD)

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A state of consciousness characterized by even longer, slower waves called theta waves. It is associated with a very deep state of relaxation or trance or with sleeping.

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KUNDALINI

Sex power (Hindu serpent). The goddess in the form of a fire-serpent, who lies sleeping at the base of the spine. It is the supreme power of magic in man.

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Kundalini:

Kundalini- latent energy located at the base of the spine. Kundalini is like coiled sleeping serpent. The yogi works to gently awaken this dormant energy to attain enlightenment.

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Yoga nidra:

a deep relaxation technique also called 'yogic sleep' in which mind and body is at complete rest but with complete awareness.

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Turiya:

Turiya ("fourth"), also called cathurtha: the transcendental Reality, which exceeds the three conventional states of consciousness, namely waking, sleeping, and dreaming

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Turiya: The state of pure consciousness. A Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook defines it as: "The superconscious; lit., 'the Fourth,' in relation to the three ordinary states of consciousness-waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep-which it transcends."

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Prajna:

Prajna: a name according to Vedanta philosophy  of the individual in the causal state (as in sound sleep); the  supreme reality appears as such through the veil of an individual  causal body.

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Dainn (Icelandic) (from deyja to swoon)

A dwarf in the Norse Edda who represents unconsciousness. Dainn awakens when worlds pass into rest, and goes to sleep when they awaken. Dainn is also the name of one of the four stags that nibble the leaves of the world tree Yggdrasil.

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SUCCUBUS

Thomas Aquinas, darling of the Catholic Church and 13th Century founder of "scholasticism," believed that devils, as succubi, performed fellatio on sleeping mortals. Then, as incubi, used the seed so obtained to impregnate virtuous unmarried women in their sleep, thus producing half human/half demonic monsters, or what Crowley would have called"moonchildren."

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Waking State The state of human consciousness when perceiving the physical world, conscious of other people and things. Termed the jagrat state in Hindu philosophy, it is the lowest of the four states into which human consciousness is divided: jagrat, svapna, sushupti, and turiya.

The reason we cannot remain continuously in the waking state, but must seek another aspect of consciousness during sleep, is that "our senses are all dual, and act according to the plane of consciousness on which the thinking entity energizes. Physical sleep affords the greatest facility for its action on the various planes; at the same time it is a necessity, in order that the senses may recuperate and obtain a new lease of life for the Jagrata, or waking state, from the Svapna and Sushupti. . . . As a man exhausted by one state of the life fluid seeks another; as, for example, when exhausted by the hot air he refreshes himself with cool water; so sleep is the shady nook in the sunlit valley of life. Sleep is a sign that waking life has become too strong for the physical organism, and that the force of the life current must be broken by changing the waking for the sleeping state. Ask a good clairvoyant to describe the aura of a person just refreshed by sleep, and that of another just before going to sleep. The former will be seen bathed in rhythmical vibrations of life currents -- golden, blue, and rosy; these are the electrical waves of Life. The latter is, as it were, in a mist of intense golden-orange hue, composed of atoms whirling with an almost incredible spasmodic rapidity, showing that the person begins to be too strongly saturated with Life; the life essence is too strong for his physical organs, and he must seek relief in the shadowy side of that essence, which side is the dream element, or physical sleep, one of the states of consciousness" (TBL 58).

Human beings, animals, and plants die not because of a lack of life, but because their vehicles become finally worn out, precisely because the life-currents within have become too strong, and the building power of the vehicles less able to repair the damages of the life-force. Paradoxically, it is the life-force which itself brings about both sleep and death, and thus life repairs its own damage, both building and destroying.

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Maha Pralaya (Sanskrit). The opposite of Mahamanvantara, literally "the great Dissolution", the "Night" following the "Day of Brahma". It is the great rest and sleep of all nature after a period of active manifestation; orthodox Christians would refer to it as the "Destruction of the World".

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Turiya Avastha (Sanskrit). Almost a Nirvanic state in Samadhi, which is itself a beatific state of the contemplative Yoga beyond this plane. A condition of the higher Triad, quite distinct (though still inseparable) from the conditions of Jagrat (waking), Svapna (dreaming), and Sushupti (sleeping).

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Sakata (-asura)

A demon who assumed the form of a cart. When Mother Yashoda left the infant Krishna sleeping under the cart, Krishna kicked the cart with His little foot and killed the demon.

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PSYCHIC MIND: The subconscious, or unconscious mind, in which we receive psychic impressions. It is at work when we sleep, dream, and meditate. It is our direct link with the Divine, and with the larger, nonphysical world around us.

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