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The colour-index of the embodied souls is two-fold; material ( Dravya Leśya ) and mental ( Bhāva Leśya ). Material colorations refer to the body or organism, which are produced by Karma-particles 2 or by binding Karma or by mental activities. Mental colorations ( Bhāva Leśya ) refers to the psychic conditions which result from the feelings and mental activities. Popularly six types of colour-indexes have been suggested to fit in with all the moral and immoral kinds of beings such as wickedness and cruelty is represented by black ( Krşpa ) anger and envy by blue (Nila ), dishonesty and meanness by grey ( Kapota ), discipline by pink ( Padma ), subduing of Passions by Yellow (Pita ) and meditation of virtue and truth by white colorations ( Sveta ). Similarly, the denizens of hell, the celestial beings and the human beings are different bodily colorations such as black, white etc.
In short, the doctrine of colorations is the triple index of body, mind and heart. So the aura or radiation spreading round the gods and prophets like Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira, Zoraster etc., presenting a halo has got positive meanings. Just as every neurosis has got a psychosis, so every material colour suggests a physico-psycho-logico-moral attribute. It is held that these colorations are perceptible only through extrasensory perception. A concrete instance has been quoted by Dr. T. G. Kalghatgi of Dharwar university3 where a Tibetan Lama named Manglabjong Raina could see owing to the Yogic discipline he had undergone, the lusture of the aura of an individual. He once saw blue of light emanating from a Chinese delegation which had gone to see the Dalai Lama
1. Chandrsi Mahattar : Pañcha-Sangraha, Mukta Bãi Jñāna
Mandir, Dabhol (N. D.). 2. Mahāvīra : Uttaradhyayana Sūtra ( Ed. Jael Charpentry),
Upsala, 1922. 3. Kalghatgi, T. G. : 'Doctrine of Lesya', The Voice of
Ahinsa, Vol. IX, No. 9, Lucknow.
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