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We normally consider consciousness in the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep (or unconsciousness). Advaita Vedanta puts forward a fourth state - turiya.
Wikipedia offers the following:
Advaita also posits the fourth state of Turiya, which some describe as pure consciousness, the background that underlies and transcends these three common states of consciousness. Turiya is the state of liberation, where ... one experiences the infinite and non-different, that is free from the dualistic experience, the state in which non-origination, is apprehended. ... The Turiya state is where the foundational Self is realized, it is measureless, neither cause nor effect, all pervading, without suffering, blissful, changeless, self-luminous, real, immanent in all things and transcendent. Those who have experienced the Turiya stage of self-consciousness have reached the pure awareness of their own non-dual Self as one with everyone and everything, for them the knowledge, the knower, the known becomes one, they are the Jivanmukta.
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