Re: Revisitng Turīya
Hari Om
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Namaste Saidevo (et.al)
Thank you for your post and great examples. I hope others take the time to enjoy and read them as they help understand this turīya a bit better.
One of your examples resonated with my personal experience:
I bought a Henry Sandoz mechanical wrist watch in March 1971 for my university examinations and was wearing it until May 2008, thus for over 37 years! Of course, I would have done repairs and services to the watch at least four or five times during this time, but it worked very well and I was fond and proud of it! Recently, it stopped working, so I changed it to a quartz watch, keeping the old dial. With this mechanical watch, I found it difficult to focus awareness on the tiny half-second intervals of silence. And in fact there is another interval of silence, far tinier, within the double tick-tick!
Years ago (1976) I was just sitting and meditating. The surroundings were absolutely still. Due to this silence, I could hear the tick-tick of my watch. I thought, how interesting , so I just listened.
What was interesting was not the tick-tick's but the underlying silence that pervaded the room and the only sound was the ticks that put a ripple in that silence.
It become apparent to me that the tick-ticks were not measuring any given hour or minute of the day but the 'eternity' that underlies the sound, the silence that was there.
No matter how busy one gets, how many thoughts there are in the mind or how many errands one needs to accomplish that same silence is there all day, night, year, and eternity.
Albeit a simple experience but profound ( for me) as I remember it to this day.
pranams
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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