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Aura and Lesyās
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more grey. In the first layer, all the chakras are of the same colour. No mention of black and white colour may have been made since they may be almost absent due to the lack of extremely violent or highly compassionate thought processes in the mind of lay people.
Advanced digital aura scanners, however, show the black and white colours of the aura too.
White and black colours also could be detected with the latest digital aura scanning camera. This only proves the greatness of the Śri Pannavaṇā Sūtra and Śri Uttarādhyayana Sūtra, which describe an aura as under:
The main types of Lesyās are:
1. Kṛṣṇa Lēśyā, 2. Nīla Lēśyā, 3. Kāpōta Lēśyā, 4. Tejo Lēśyā, 5. Padma Lēśyā, 6. Śukla Lēśyā
The first three types of Lēśyās are inauspicious or impure, and they show spiritually low status of the living being, while the remaining three Lēśyās are auspicious or pure and they reflect a spiritually high status of the living being. All these six Lēśyās are considered more and more auspicious in their ascending order. Among the first three Lēśyās the Kṛṣṇa Lēśyā is the most inauspicious, the Nila Lēśyā is less inauspicious than Kṛṣṇa Lēśyā and the Kāpōta Lēśyā is the least inauspicious. Among the remaining three Lēśyās, the fourth Tejo Lēśyā is auspicious, the fifth Padma Lēśyā is more auspicious than the former and the last Sukla Lēśyā is the most auspicious.'
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1. The Kṛṣṇa Lēśyā as its name indicates is like carbon, soot of cartwheel, the dark clouds of the monsoon or like the pupils of eye black in colour.8
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