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Who can discern what is required to be done or not to be done, who knows who alone has to be shown regard and respect, who has equanimity towards all, love for charity and kindness, is soft of heart and speech and of behaviour, is a person called to be possessing Tej Leshya.
One having Padama Leshya is sacrificing generous, good-natured, always attracted towards good deeds, ready to bear all troubles and stresses ungrudgingly and has love for praise and worship of superiors and saints.
A person having the attributes of Shukla Leshya is impartial. He would toil without an eye on fruits. Equanimity is his high quality. He has no like or hate or any special attachment for children, friends or servants.
The Leshyas govern the ceaseless process of re-births. All miserable beings in infernal regions possess one of the three evil Leshyas, viz. Krishna, Neel or Kapot, with their placements and durations according to their gravity. Tej, Padam and Shukla Leshyas award better births in higher/heavenly regions, with comfortable stations, stages & kinds of lives with attendant pleasures and spans according to the intensity of their degrees.
Thoughtful people who have carefully and penetratively studied and observed lives of several types of persons have of late marked coloured auras and variety of thought-forms through clairvoyance. Mrs. Annie Besant & C. W. Lead Beater have recorded their such observations lucidly in their eminent publication "Thougt Forms" They say: "What is called the aura of man is the outer-part of the cloud-like substance of higher-bodies, interpenetrating each other, and extending beyond the confines of his physical body, the smallest of all." The mental and desire bodies are chiefly concerned with the appearance of thought-forms. "The mental body is an object of great beauty, the delicacy and rapid motion of its particles giving it an aspect of living iridescent light, and this beauty becomes an extra-ordinarily radiant and entrancing loveliness as the intellect becomes more highly evolved and is employed chiefly on pure and sublime topics."
They further state : When the man's energy flows outward toward external objects of desire, or is occupied in passional and emotional activities, this energy works in a less subtle order of matter than the mental, in that of the astral world. What is called his desire-body is composed of this matter, and it forms the most prominent part of the aura in the undeveloped man. Where the man is of a gross type, the desire-body is of the denser matter of the astral plane, and is dull in hue, browns and dirty greens and reds playing a great part in it. Through this will flash various characterististic colours, as his passions are excited. A man of higher type has his désire-body composed of the finer qualities
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