Turiya is this immovable state
behind all our experience.

When I was dissolved in Samadhi,
there was still this familiar
sensation. Even when I forgot who
I was, even when my memories
seemed alien to me, even when I
forgot what being a human was,
there was still that space, this
sensation, this calm abiding
vibration.

Awake, dream state, dreamless
sleep, and Turiya are the four
state of being. Although the 3
first state comes and goes,
Turiya is always there.

It's really nothing magical. It's
so simple that if I were to make
you experience that state you
would simply say:

"yeah I know. Is that all?"

But turiya is rarely experienced
by itself. It's clouded by the
awaken, dream and dreamless
experience. In dream and sleep
yoga, if you stay aware during
the dreamless sleep experience,
you can abide in turiya as the
mind is completely quiet at that
moment. I wonder if turiya is
experienced also after dying?

Dying and dissolving

Your whole life flashes in front
of you.

While in Samadhi, my whole life
flashed in front of me, so many
times. I understand now what
people sees when they die. Its no
so much that my whole life
flashed in front of me, but that
I could see my whole life all at
once. Instead of time being lived
sequentially, I moved outside the
scope of time, and saw my whole
life as a strand of light. From
the beginning to the end, all at
once. 

As if time was flattened, moving
from one dimension to a greater
dimension. Creating a time /
space worm, that I could see in
its entirety.

If that's the case, it seems like
at the moment of you death you
enter some sort of Samadhi. In
some yoga tradition there is this
saying that at the moment of your
death you have the opportunity of
dissolving into consciousness or
you might re-incarnate to come
and deal for unfinished business.

In Kashmir Shavinism, they talk
about being a Jivanmukta, or
becoming awaken while alive. So
that you don't need to wait for
the moment of your death to
dissolve into the light. What a
weird reality it would be to be
always in that state, completely
detached from who you are,
what you are. I have a feeling
that most Jivamukta are in asylum
or being heavily medicated.