Page "Mandukya Upanishad" Paragraph 11

In the fourth state of consciousness – turiya – the mind is not simply withdrawn from the objects but becomes one with Brahman.

In both deep sleep and transcendental consciousness there is no consciousness of objects but the objective consciousness is present in an unmanifested ' seed ' form in deep sleep, while it is transcended in turīya.

Specifically, if one identifies the wordless state with turīya and meditates, one realizes the true self and ' there is no return to the sphere of empirical life '.

From the fact that many Buddhist terms are used in explaining the fourth state, such as Śūnyatā or emptiness, it is clear that this commentary was written in an era when the concepts of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā school of Mahayana Buddhism were influential and renowned.