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A presentation slide titled "The Criss-Crossing of the 5 Basic States of Consciousness" with a grid table listing Deep Sleep SUSHUPTI, Dream SWAPNA, Waking JAGRAT, Awakened TURIYA and Alive TURIYATITA as rows and columns, with entries such as Su + Su, Sw + Sw and Ta + Ta. A red handwritten scribble marks the table over the BODY label, and MIND is printed vertically on the left. Text on the right reads that Jeeva goes through 25 states of consciousness and that understanding them liberates you. The slide has a cream background with gold decorative borders and no people are shown.

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March 23 20222022-03-23December 03 20162016-12-03A slide titled "The 5 Faces of the 5 Phases of Paramaśiva" with a beige background and a grid table. The left column and top row list Creation, Sustenance, Rejuvenation, Pulling out of delusion and Liberation, and each cell pairs a row phase with a column phase in red text, such as "Creation need to be Sustained". Small thumbnail images of a deity-like figure appear at the top corners, and a . No people are visible2022-03-23March 21 20222022-03-21March 21 20222022-03-21A man in saffron-orange robes and multiple dark rudraksha malas stands beside a large presentation board titled "Various States of Consciousness", holding a microphone in his right hand and pointing at the board with his left. The board is divided into four colored panels labelled with states of consciousness, including Jagrat, Swapna, Sushupti and Thuriya. The man has short dark hair and is speaking, with a dark curtained backdrop behind him.March 23 20222022-03-23A clipboard holding a printed-out white sheet of paper with a hand-ruled grid table. Column and row headers in blue handwriting read JAGRATH (J), SNAPNA (S), SUSHUPTI (SUS), TURIYA (TUR) and TURIYADEETAM (TUA), with the same labels down the left side. Each cell holds a slash pair in green, red or blue ink, for example J/J, S/J and TUR/S. No people, deities or ritual objects are visible; the sheet lies on a dark wooden surface with a glass-covered clipboard edge at the left.2010-11-25A presentation slide titled "Turiyatita" with the subtitle "Alive State" and a text panel reading "The 5th state is Turiyātīta which is you awakened to higher reality and you are able to manifest what you want. Beyond the idea of body and mind." On the right, a photograph of a bare-chested man wearing a gold ornate crown with a crescent moon motif, a long ceremonial necklace of red and gold beads, and earrings, seated before gold-draped ornamentation. A person with that presentation and crown is shown; the slide is a screenshot-style graphic with no physical people in the scene itself.2022-03-23November 25 20102010-11-25A man in a red-maroon turban decorated with a crescent ornament and jewels stands beside a whiteboard during a teaching session. He wears a rust-red robe, a long multi-strand gold and red-bead necklace, a large ornate gold pendant, and a small headset microphone. He smiles while holding a small open notebook in one hand and gesturing with the other. The whiteboard lists states of consciousness in a two-column grid: WITH THOUGHTS (JAGRAT, wakeful state, thinking; SWAPNA) and WITHOUT THOUGHTS (TURIYA, blissful state, total awareness; SUSHUPTI). A brass vessel with a lid stands at the right edge. A red curtain forms the backdrop.2016-12-03A man in a rust-orange turban with a white flower ornament, wearing a long rust-orange robe, a multi-strand gold and white flower garland, a gold pendant and a headset microphone, stands on a stage holding a small tablet. Beside him is a whiteboard headed '4 STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS' with a grid labelled JAGRAT (wakeful state, thinking), TURIYA (blissful state, total awareness), SWAPNA (dream state, dreaming) and SUSHUPTI (unconscious, deep sleep). Golden trident staffs and a gold-and-brown throne-like seat with an orange cloth stand at right, and a red curtain hangs behind. The man appears to be a probable Swamiji by the turban, robe and garland cues, presented as a teacher at a discourse.2016-12-03