*WORDS OF WISDOM* - RAMANA MAHARSHI

“What there is, is one state only; you may call it turiya or turiyatita or what you like. The wakeful state (jagrat), the dream state (swapna) and the state of deep sleep (sushupti) — these three states go on changing like the scenes in a cinema. All the three are ideas of the mind. That which is beyond these three, and which is real and permanent, is the Self itself. That is the state called the Fourth, the turiya, state. In common parlance, people talk of the ‘Fourth State ‘and of ‘Beyond the Fourth State’, and so on, but strictly speaking, there is only one state.”
(Bhagavan in 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 156)