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## First Study: Gathapati Ananda
[79] The fragrance of sweet and fragrant flowers is infinitely more pleasant than the touch of butter, which is infinitely more delicate.
The color of Padma Leshya is yellow like turmeric, its taste is infinitely sweeter than honey, and its fragrance and touch are like Tejo Leshya.
The color of Shukla Leshya is white like a conch shell, its taste is infinitely sweeter than white sugar, and its fragrance and touch are like Tejo Leshya and Padma Leshya.
The color of Leshyas is based on the excellence and non-excellence of emotions. Krishna Leshya is indicative of extremely polluted emotions. As the pollution of emotions decreases, there is a difference in the categories. When the pollution of emotions generated by Krishna Leshya decreases slightly, the state of Neel Leshya arises, and when it decreases further, the state of Kapoth Leshya is formed. Krishna, Neel, and Kapoth, these three colors are indicative of non-excellent emotions. The next three colors are indicative of excellent emotions. The first three Leshyas are considered inauspicious and the next three are considered auspicious.
Just as the external environment, place, food, lifestyle, etc., have different effects on our mind, in the same way, it is not unnatural for different types of Pudgalas to have different effects on the soul. This fact is well known in the field of natural medicine. In the treatment of many mental illnesses, rays of different colors or water from bottles of different colors are used. Many such large hospitals have been built. The 'Solarium' in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is a well-known medical center of this kind in Asia.
Apart from Jainism, other Indian philosophies also have the concept of different colors in the context of the effects of internal states on the soul. For example, in Sankhya philosophy, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas are considered to be the three Gunas. There is also a discussion of the three colors of these three Gunas in many Sankhya texts. The author of the famous commentary on the Sankhya Karika, written by Ishwarkrishna, the Sankhya Tattva Kaumudi, has described the uncreated nature, which is not born from anything else, as a goat, comparing it to a goat, and has described it as red, white, and black. Red, white, and black are the colors of the three Gunas, Rajas, Sattva, and Tamas, accepted in Sankhya philosophy. Rajoguna makes the mind passionate or attached to desire, therefore it is red, Sattva guna makes the mind pure or free from impurities, therefore it is white, Tamoguna is in the form of darkness, it casts a veil over knowledge, therefore it is black. This context of Sankhya philosophy is comparable to Leshyas. 1. Ajamekan Lohi Tshuklakrishnam
Wahvi: Prajah Srijamanam Namamah. Aja Ye Tam Jushamanam Bhajante, Jahatyenaam Bhuktabhogam Numstaan.