Gaudapada says both waking states and dreaming states are bound by cause and effect, deep sleep is bound by cause alone, and Turiya is beyond all cause and effect.
Deep sleep knows nothing of any other state of consciousness nor the state of deep sleep itself. It knows nothing of truth or untruth, but only knows the absence of duality. Turiya is the presence of nonduality, that all-seeing existence.
The absence of duality is actually common to both deep sleep and Turiya. But deep sleep is the seed of variety and such a fruit does not exist in Turiya.
Not only the dream state but the waking state is a state of sleep and dream. Deep sleep is a state of sleep without dream. The wise ones say neither sleep nor dream is to be seen in Turiya.
Dreaming misapprehends reality. Sleeping doesn't apprehend reality at all. Gaudapada says when these two errors disappear, reality is realized.
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