Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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COLOURS AND EMOTIONS
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beautiful blue tint, strongly in evidence," p. 34. This golden shade of yellow is comparatively rare; a sickly lemon colour is the indication of intellectual power in the great run of persons.
The Blue Group. A rich clear violet tint represents the highest form of spirituality, while the grosser phases of spirituality are indicated by darker and duller hues and shades until dark indigo verging on bluish black is reached. High morality is indicated by beautiful shades of blue. Purple denotes a love of form and ceremony and solemn grandeur in religion.
The Green Group-A restful green indicates love of nature and outdoor life, repose, quiet, etc.; a clear beautiful lighter green indicates sympathy, charity and altruistic emotion; another shade of green intellectual tolerance; a duller shade of green indicates tact and diplomacy; and a still duller shade insincerity, shiftiness, untruth, etc.; an ugly slate coloured green indicates low tricky deceit; and an ugly muddy green indicates jealousy, envious malice, etc.
The Brown Group: It represents desire for gain and accumulation-ranging from the clear brown of industrious accumulation to the murky dull brown of miserliness, greed and avarice.
The Gray Group: "Gray represents fear, depression, lack of courage, negativity, etc."
Black:It stands for "hatred, malice, revenge, and "devilishness" generally. It shades the brighter colors into their lower aspects.” It stands for hate, gloom, grief, depression, pessimism, etc.
White: "White is the astral colour of Pure Spirit, as we have seen, and its presence raises the degree of the other colours, and renders them clearer. In fact, the perception of the highest degree of Being known to the most advanced occultist is manifested to the highest adepts and masters in the form of "The great White Light," which transcends any light ever witnessed by the sight of man on either physical or astral plane for it belongs to a plane higher than either, and is absolute, rather than a relative white. The presence of white among the astral colors of the human aura, betokens a high degree of