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Waking (Jāgrat)

Ordinary waking: awareness turned outward to the solid, shared world of the senses.

Jāgrat is the waking state — ordinary everyday consciousness, turned outward through the senses to the solid, shared world of physical things. It is the most familiar and 'public' of the states, the one in which we take the external world to be most real. In the Trika analysis it is the most externalized of the five, the surface from which the inward journey through the subtler states begins.

How it traveled

  1. Tantrasāra
    Śrīnagara (Srinagar), Kashmir · 1000
    explains
  2. Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
    Śṛṅgeri (Sringeri) · 1400
    applies

Key passages(15)

Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

Very high

Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

Very high

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

Very high

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

Very high

Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

High

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

High

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

High

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

High

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

High

Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

High

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Praśna Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

High