What is Inner Silence?It has many names in the traditions: sat-chit-ananda, the Self, the witness, unconditioned awareness, the void, emptiness, Father God, Shiva, samadhi, Tao, and so on... In the lessons we often call it pure bliss consciousness. So many names for what amounts to nothingness. But the nothingness is alive. It is aware. It is everywhere. And it is somehow blissful within itself.
There are three states of consciousness we all know well:
1. Waking state -- what we experience in our daily activity.
2. Dreaming state -- what we sometimes experience in sleep.
3. Deep dreamless sleep state -- what we don't experience much, but
we were somewhere.
Inner silence is a state distinctly different from these three. We
know it in our deep meditation as blissful awareness without any
objects. Or it can be mixed with objects too, like thoughts,
feelings, or whatever. But in its pristine state, it is without
objects. So in yoga it gets it own number as a unique state of
consciousness:
4. Inner silence -- it is all those descriptive words and definitions mentioned already. In yoga it is sometimes called simply "Turiya," which means "the fourth state" in sanskrit.
Read more about inner silence here:
Awakening the Silent SeedWhat is inner silence?and more references in the
Topic IndexAt the forum:
Inner Silence Milestones
