The Great Causal Body
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The Great Causal Body
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Now, we will see what the fourth body, the Great-Causal Body is. (The Great-Causal Body is also known in the teachings of Vedanta as the Turya State, or SatChitAnanda. It is called Great-Causal because it is above, or beyond the limits of the Causal Body.) It is the father of the other three bodies. In Hindu mythology, King Janaka (Janaka means Creator, or Producer) was one without a body (Videhi). He had a daughter named Janaki (Janaki means Awareness). This mythological story tells us that King Janaka is the same as the fourth body, the Great-Causal Body. This indicates a state of Consciousness that is without a body in spite of the fact that the body still exists. That is the state of "Knowledge" in the fourth body. This is King Janaka. Out of him, the daughter Janaki (Awareness) is created. Compared with the previous three bodies, the fourth body is a state that is without a body, and without any conditions, in the form of "Knowledge." However, this does not mean that there is an absence of Knowledge found in the previous three bodies.
Knowledge is the same whether it is in an agitated condition or in equanimity. It is clean and pure in the state of equanimity as well as in the disturbed condition, even when immersed in the flood of objective knowledge. In all states, Knowledge is One and the same. However, the knowledge in the first three bodies is adulterated knowledge, or conditional objective knowledge. The Knowledge in the state of the Great-Causal Body is balanced with an intermingling of the three gunas (Rajas, Tamas, and Sattva), and can be experienced as "Pure Knowledge."
Whether Knowledge is in a balanced or an unbalanced state, Knowledge is always Knowledge. However, it is different with respect to it's conditioning. Because of the identification with particular conditionings of Knowledge, a human being sees differences, and creates distinctions and separateness in the One Knowledge. For example, the sweetness that one tastes in the various sweets called laddoos, or jilebis, or basundis, is all sugar. However, because it is in these particular forms we say that the laddoo is sweet, the jilebi is sweet, or the basundi is sweet. If we taste some sugar that is not mixed with any other ingredients, we will say that sugar is sweet. If someone is given a description of what sugar is like, and is given a laddoo and told that the sweetness in the laddoo is sugar, he will never get the knowledge of the true nature of sugar. However, if he is given pure sugar unmixed with any other ingredients he will know exactly what sugar is.
This example illustrates why Knowledge cannot be experienced in its primal state in the first three bodies because it is always in some form of conditioning. In the first three bodies it will always be experienced only as objective knowledge. In the Fourth Body, that Knowledge which is "non-objective" and Pure, and which is not apparent (visible) in the other three bodies, shines in its "Pure Nature." This is the reason why aspirants have to be taken to the Great-Causal Body. When Pure Knowledge, or Consciousness, is known, then even if it is mixed with objective knowledge, or is in any other state, the aspirant will understand correctly that the entity that is called "the world," is not separate, or different from that which is called "The Knowledge of the Self" (Self-Knowledge).
Even when each state comes and goes, the witness of these states does not come or go anywhere. The one who sees the dark and fair complexion, as well as childhood, youth, and old age, of the Physical Body, is also the one who sees all concepts, imaginings, dreams, and doubts in the Subtle Body. The same witness also sees the Causal Body where there is a complete absence of concepts, imagination, and doubts. The one who witnesses all three of these bodies is forever awake. Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj
- From "Master Key to Self-Realization"
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Mahakali
able to be in the Turya State as much as possible is the equivalent of
living in constant bliss. The direct path takes me directly into a
state of pure beingness and must stabilize in it. Nisargadatta would
do this all the time.
Kali