Namaste Yajvan,

The great forgetting occurs in samAdhi.

The turIyAtIta, in samAdhi, knows I am brahman.

turIyAtIta = prAja = aghora = nandivaktra.

prAja (pra-aja ~ deep sleep or complete unconsciousness) is the turIyAtIta consciousness.

The turIya-atIta has passed away into the turIya, as one who has gone beyond.

turya = prajA = sahasrAra = paramashiva = M
turIya = prAjA = AjA = shambhu = AUM
turIyAtIta = prAja = vishuddha = sadAshiva = haM
taijasa = aja = anAhata = IshAna = yaM

vaishvAnara = AjA = maNipUra = rudra = raM


The forgetting is conceived in the taijasa, matured in the turIyAtIta, and realized as wisdom in the turIya. And all sense of dvaita is extinguished when consciousness goes beyond the AjA cakra.

Where is the effort in forgetting?

Arjuna has doubtlessly remembered advaita, but necessarily forgotten dvaita and its attendant doubts (e.g. balancing all the conflicting perspectives of truth).

Transcendence is exactly what I had intended by comprehension and supersession.

Learning requires guidelines, but perfect knowledge requires that those lines be erased.

The notion of forgetting (especially in the waking state) is perhaps similar to someone who is brought up discriminating on the basis of skin color suddenly realizing the unity of humanity and the error of past judgments. If you are only avoiding discrimination at a superficial level, then conscious effort may be required; but when there is no longer any division perceived, there is surely no effort at all.

To know dvaita you forget advaita, and to remember advaita you forget dvaita.