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  2. Chaitanya (consciousness) - Wikipedia

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    Chaitanya (Sanskrit: चैतन्य) refers variously to 'awareness', 'consciousness', 'Conscious Self', 'intelligence' or 'Pure Consciousness'. [1] It can also mean energy or enthusiasm. [ 2 ] The meaning of name Chaitanya also stands for "State of Conscious Energy".

  3. Vijñāna - Wikipedia

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    there are six types of consciousness, each unique to one of the internal sense organs; consciousness (viññā ṇ a) is separate (and arises) from mind (mano) here, consciousness cognizes or is aware of its specific sense base (including the mind and mind objects) viññā ṇ a is a prerequisite for the arising of craving (ta ṇ hā)

  4. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Consciousness Philosophers have used the term consciousness for four main topics: knowledge in general, intentionality, introspection (and the knowledge it specifically generates) and phenomenal experience... Something within one's mind is 'introspectively conscious' just in case one introspects it (or is poised to do so).

  5. Turiya - Wikipedia

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    In Hindu philosophy, turiya (Sanskrit: तुरीय, meaning "the fourth"), also referred to as chaturiya or chaturtha, is the true self (atman) beyond the three common states of consciousness (waking, dreaming, and dreamless deep sleep).

  6. Ātman (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Kumārila, for example, believed that Atman is the object of I-consciousness, whereas Prabhākara believed that Atman is the subject of I-consciousness. [55] Mimamsaka Hindus believed that what matters is virtuous actions and rituals completed with perfection, and it is this that creates merit and imprints knowledge on Atman , whether one is ...

  7. Saccidānanda - Wikipedia

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    In Advaita Vedanta, states Werner, it is the sublimely blissful experience of the boundless, pure consciousness and represents the unity of spiritual essence of ultimate reality. [ 7 ] Satcitananda is an epithet for Brahman , considered indescribable, unitary, ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism.

  8. Sakshi (witness) - Wikipedia

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    Sakshi means Ishvara, the चेता (cetā), the sole Self-consciousness, who is the witness of all, who gives consciousness to every human being, thereby making each rational and discriminatory. [ 7 ]

  9. Moksha - Wikipedia

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    Scholars provide various explanations of the meaning of moksha in epistemological and psychological senses. For example, Deutsche sees moksha as transcendental consciousness, the perfect state of being, of self-realization, of freedom and of "realizing the whole universe as the Self". [24]