'Turyavastha'

QUESTION: Namaskar Dhananjay,
1.I read in a book that there are seven stages of self-realization. There's a sixth stage called padarthabhavani or untainted awareness of the self. How many years of sadhana takes for a yogi to reach this state?
2.There's also a stage after this called Turiya which is known as the final stage. Is it possible to reach at this stage in kali-yuga? I read that it took sometimes millions of years for an honest yogi to reach this stage.
Your thoughts on this topic would be very beneficial for me and many other aspirants.

ANSWER: 1. There is no fixed timeframe as regards spiritual advancement. Each Jiva takes its own time, based on its past karma and evolutionary attainment. If unbroken Brahmacharya with deep God-meditation and devotion is practiced sincerely, there is a bright possibility to accomplish the same in 12 years. However, even for such 12 year practice to succeed, the Jiva should have struggled and put in great effort towards Yoga & Brahmacharya in its previous incarnations,

2. ‘Turya’ is not the final stage. ‘Turyavastha’ (the state of neither being awake, asleep nor in dream) refers to ‘Nirvikalpa Samadhi’. Turya alone does not confer self-realization. There is another state beyond Turya called ‘Turyateeta’ which dawns to the Yogi only after attaining self-realization, whereupon he goes beyond the Guna-s (traits). This is the final state.

As per scriptures, it takes around 7 million incarnations in the animal form for the Jiva to get a  human body. It then takes around 1.4 million incarnations in the human form to attain self-realization. Brahmacharya becomes possible and successful only near the end of this period when the Jiva has a few births remaining. After a few births trying to establish in Yoga and Brahmacharya, the Yogi succeeds in attaining Nirvikalpa and finally liberation.

The state of liberation has nothing to do with the Yuga (time period), as time itself is unreal and non-existent. It is the Lord alone who is real. Everything else is false and an illusion which is the product of his Leela (play). There have been thousands of Yogi-s in the Kali Yuga who have attained liberation and are still attaining it even in this moment.

ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)

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QUESTION: Hello Dhananjay,

I just had one more question i was curious about.

Q.Does one who attains the sixth state which i mentioned above really becomes dissolved and established into God to such an extent that he becomes unaware of his surroundings and only notices them when someone points them out to him?

Sorry to take your time but people inside the 'box' i live aren't the type to appreciate the questions or discussion of this type at all. Thanks again.