A Wisdom Archive on The State

Nitya Sarga (Sanskrit). The state of constant creation or evolution, as opposed to Nitya Pralaya - the state of perpetual incessant dissolution (or change of atoms) disintegration of molecules, hence change of forms.

 
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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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Avasthas (Sanskrit) States, conditions, positions.

 
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Moksha (Sanskrit). "Liberation." The same as Nirvana; a post mortem state of rest and bliss of the "Soul-Pilgrim".

 
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Manas Taijasi (Sanskrit). Lit., the "radiant" Manas; a state of the Higher Ego, which only high metaphysicians are able to realize and comprehend.

 
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Ardhanariswara (Sanskrit). Lit., "the bi-sexual lord". Esoterically, the unpolarized states of cosmic energy symbolised by the Kabalistic Sephira, Adam Kadmon, &c.

 
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Sekten (Egypt, Egyptian). Devachan; the place of post mortem reward, a state of bliss, not a locality.

 
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Pratyabhava (Sanskrit). The state of the Ego under the necessity of repeated births.

 
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Paramarthika (Sanskrit). The one true state of existence according to Vedanta.

 
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Samadhi (Sanskrit). A state of ecstatic and complete trance. The term comes from the words Sam-adha, "self-possession ". He who possesses this power is able to exercise an absolute control over all his faculties, physical or mental; it is the highest state of Yoga.

 
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Vamadeva (Sanskrit) The beautiful or fair god; a title of Siva. Also one of the Vedic rishis, stated to have been the author of many hymns.

 
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