Waking (Jāgrat)

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.