Is absorption in Krishna a combination of all the four levels of consciousness?
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thank you no usually when we are awake we are in jagati stage so jagati basically means the consciousness is at the physical level of reality so now Krishna is so merciful that although Krishna exists at the spiritual level of reality he pervades all the levels of reality so Krishna exists beyond all the levels of reality but he is not restricted to that level he exists at all the levels so for example Krishna Manikasthi is a deity the deity is Krishna Manikasthi at the material level of reality similarly we see that sometimes some great devotees they get Krishna in their dreams there is Krishna Manikasthi at the subtle level of reality so when we chant the holy names the it is Krishna Manikasthi at the physical level of reality to take us back to the spiritual level of reality so to give another example suppose a person is caught in watching a movie and so caught in watching the movie and says its a horror movie the person goes trembling and crying and screaming and there is the father sitting next to that person come on stop watching the movie don’t get caught in it and the person is so caught in the movie the person doesn’t even notice his father so then suppose the father enters into the TV not in the physical sense but wherever the program is that is being broadcast and then through that the father enters into the TV and shows me he reminds me the father suddenly catches the attention so now the father is a reality sitting next to the person but the father is also present in the movie and now to the extent the son focuses on the father although the son the father is at one level is another object in the TV show but at another level the father is a reality far beyond the TV show so like that our consciousness is caught in material thing right now so Krishna manifests within this material level of reality to help us rise to the spiritual level of reality so to the extent we focus our consciousness on Krishna to the extent we become purified to the extent we focus on him to the extent we become purified to the extent we focus on him to the extent we become purified and our consciousness becomes elevated awakening from our spiritual state so from a spiritual perspective all these three states means Swapna, Jagati all three are sleeping states only Jagati, Samadhi and Durga has an awakened state so Krishna comes to the other level of reality comes especially as avatar to the material level of reality Jagati state to elevate us to the Samadhi state so to the extent the child is caught up in watching other thing in the movie to the extent the person that it is illusion to the extent the person is watching the father to the extent the person is moving towards reality so if we are partially absorbed in Krishna that means we are still, if we are awake we are in Jagati state only but within Jagati we are connected with a higher reality to the extent we are absorbed in Krishna