wgm4u: > Same as Yogananda: > According Vaj, MMY 'made up' the 'seven states of consciousness'.
Now we see that MMY's seven states schema is almost the same as Wilber, Swami Bhaktivedanta, Swami Rama, and Swami Yogananda, and the Vijnanavada, Sri Vidya, and Trika systems. Apparently Vaj, in his religious zeal to discredit MMY, got mixed up again. > Waking, Dreaming, Deep Sleep, Super Conscious/Causal, > Self Realization (what MMY calls Cosmic Consciousness), > God Realization, Cosmic Consciousness (what MMY calls > Unity). > > Same states of consciousness, slightly different names > ......(MMY wanted to be different I guess because in > most schools of Yoga and classical Yoga CC is considered > the ultimate or what MMY calls Unity). > > > Swami Bhaktivedanta, a Vedantin, enumerates the > > five classical states of consciousness which are > > similar to M's: > > > > 1. Wakefulness (jagrat) > > 2. Dream state (svapna) > > 3. Deep sleep (sushupti) > > 4. Superconscious state (turiya) > > 5. Transcendent state (turiyatita) > > > > 'OM Mantra and 7 Levels of Consciousness' > > by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati > > http://www.swamij.com/om.htm#sevenstates
