The works of Ramaṇa Maharṣi

Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu Anubandham

Verse 32

நனவு கனவுதுயி னுடுவார்க் கப்பால்நனவு துயிற்றுரிய நாமத் தெனுமத்துரிய மதேயுளதாற் றோன்றுமூன் றின்றும்றுரிய வதீதந் துணி

நனவு கனவு துயி(ல்) னுடுவார்க் கப்பால் நனவு துயிற் றுரிய நாமத் தெனும் அத் துரியம் அதே யுளதாற் றோன்றும் மூன் றின்று றுரிய வதீதந் துணி

In plain words

Waking, dreaming, sleeping — these belong to whoever takes himself to be the one passing through them. Beyond such a one lies that wakeful sleep which people have named the fourth. But since that fourth alone truly is, the three that seem to come and go were never there at all; and where there is no three, there is no fourth to count. So settle it quietly within yourself: what remains is beyond even the fourth.

Word for word

Waking, dream, sleep — beyond those who undergo them: the waking-sleep which is called by the name 'turīya'; since that turīya alone exists, the three that appear are not at all — therefore conclude: turīyātīta, beyond the fourth.