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Leshya (Karmic colour )
Leshya is spiritual-mental colourisation. Jain scriptures state that bondage and liberation mainly depend on one's mental state. Mental states are never uniform. They go on changing. They change to following different patterns:
1. Intense black - highly
defiled and evil 2. Black that is defiled, evil 3. Grey (brinjal flower)
that is less defiled, less
evil 4. Yellow (rising Sun) that
is evil-cum good,
impure-cum pure 5. Lotus (pink lotus) that is
pure, good 6. Luminous white that is
best, purest highly luminous
They are illustrated by a story of six men and their behaviour. As seen in the illustration, the darkest one cuts the very root of the tree, the black one cuts off the
main branches, the grey one cuts the small branches, the yellow one cuts the branches that held the fruits, the lotus coloured one picks only the ripe fruits and the white coloured one picks only the fruit fallen on the ground.
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