107. 122 CHAPTER II

122 CHAPTER II

DISTINCTION BETWEEN TURIYA AND TURIYĀTITA. We have shown that in the case of Turiya the objec- tivity is subordinated to subjectivity, which is conscious of its true essential nature of being eternal, self-luminous and perfect. In the case of Turīyatīta, however, the subjectivity does not simply predominate, but rises as it were above the objectivity. But Turīyatīta is of two types (i) in which the objectivity persists in the subconscious and (ii) in which there is total absence of objectivity. The first is called "Vyatireka Turīyatīta" and the second is called "Avyatireka Turīyatīta". The latter is the highest stage, from which there is no descent. The distinction between Turīya and Turīyatīta is tried to be brought out by means of the analogy of chemical process by which gold is melted. We know that gold, when it is subjected to chemical process along with another metal, silver for instance, there is a stage, at which it is penetrated by the lineal forms of chemical or the other metal that is put with it in fire and that the final stage is a homogeneous liquid, in which the distinction is lost to the extent that one remains only as an affection of the other. The stage, in which the lineal form of melted silver enters into melting gold so that the distinction between the two still persists, is the stage to which Turīya is comparable. For, in this, distinction between the subject and the object still remains. But Turiyatīta is comparable to that stage in which the two are so melted together that they form a homogeneous unit and one remains only as an affection of the other. This statement applies to Vyatireka Turīyatīta in which objectivity remains, though only as sub-conscious affection.

SAVEDYA SUŞUPTA AND PRĀŅA PRAMĀTĀ. We have discussed in the preceding pages the nature