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## Third Karma Grantha
The auspicious and inauspicious results of the soul in relation to the substance are called **Leshyas**. **Kashaya** are their collaborators. As the intensity of **Kashaya** increases, the **Leshyas** become more and more inauspicious. As the **Kashaya** become milder, the **Leshyas** become more and more pure. For example, when the **Kashaya** that is bound to the soul arises with the greatest intensity, it is **Krishna Leshya**, and when it arises with mild intensity, it is **Shukla Leshya**.
Sometimes, the color of the bodies of Devas and Narakas are considered **Leshyas**. This is because their **Leshyas** are based on their state of being. **Samyaktv** (perfect knowledge) is considered to be achieved through **Leshyas**. In this context, **Krishna Leshya** is also considered in relation to the substance, and **Samyaktv** is achieved only through auspicious **Leshyas**. If this is the case, how can a being residing in **Krishna Leshya** achieve **Samyaktv**? To explain this, it is believed that **Leshyas** related to the substance are the color of the body, but **Leshyas** related to the mind can also be present in them. At the time of achieving **Samyaktv** by the Narakas of the seventh hell, there is pure **Bhavaleśya** (mental Leshya), but from the substance, there is **Krishna Leshya**, which means it is like **Tejo Leshya** (Leshya of light) in a reflected form.
The implication is that the **Leshyas** of Devas and Narakas are based on their state of being, but the **Leshyas** related to the substance are the color of the body, and the **Leshyas** related to the mind are based on the state of mind at that time.
Here, it is worth considering that in the third **Karma Grantha**, there are three **Leshyas** - **Krishna**, **Neel**, and **Kapot**, and in the fourth **Karma Grantha**, there are six **Leshyas** mentioned in **Padmapratisas** (verse 233). The solution to this is that those who have already attained the fifth and sixth **Gunasthanas** (stages of spiritual progress) can have the three **Leshyas** of **Krishna**, **Neel**, and **Kapot**, but those who have the three **Leshyas** of **Krishna**, **Neel**, and **Kapot** cannot attain the fifth and sixth **Gunasthanas**. Therefore, from this perspective, there are four...