Turiya, pure consciousness, is the only reality, and this is the answer to ‘Who am I?’ The question is, ‘Who am I apart from the physical world of the waking state, apart from the mental imagination of the dream state and apart from the blankness of the deep sleep state? Turiya illumines the waker, illumines the dreamer, illumines the sleeper and also appears as the respective physical world, dream world and deep sleep blankness.
