Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: The highest state is not a fourth space alongside the three familiar states.

The Vārttika explains: This aphorism forms a transition from the Śakticakra to the doctrine of states: within the distinction among waking, dream, and deep sleep, the experience of Turya can shine forth.

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: Waking here means outward-directed knowledge of commonly perceived objects.

The Vārttika explains: Waking is the shared knowledge mediated by the senses.

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: Dream denotes not only images in sleep but every experience arising primarily from inner conception.

The Vārttika explains: Dream is knowledge formed by inner conceptions and not based on commonly perceived objects.

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: Deep sleep stands for the darkness in which neither clear discrimination nor true recognition is present.

The Vārttika explains: In deep sleep, non-discrimination and Māyā remain although determinate perception rests.

Kṣemarāja explains in the Vimarśinī: One who recognises awareness as the lord of the three states is no longer swallowed by waking, dream, and sleep.

The Vārttika explains: The yogin experiences the three states as a single space of Turya.