Preksha Dhyana Basic Principles

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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(iii) The most intense ones are Šuklambright white.
When one is under the influence of the evil trinity of Krsna, Nila and Kapota, the force of the instinctive drives is so powerful that the reasoning mind surrenders to it. On the other hand, with the conversion of lešyas, the rational mind is able to countermand the insistence of the carnal desires.
It will be seen from the above that the nomenclature of the lešyâs has been made on the basis of the spectrum of dark and bright colours.
Colour is an inherent characteristic of the entire material existence. The nature of colour is electromagnetic radiation. Difference in wave-length and frequency distinguishes one colour from another. Lešyās are also radiations and different lešyås have different wavelengths, and therefore, each has a definite place in the electromagnetic spectrum. Each one, therefore, can be associated through its harmonics with a definite colour in the visible spectrum, i.e. from red to violet. Thus on the basis of the relation between the colours of the visible spectrum and the lešyä radiations, we can use specific colours as the means of strengthening or weakening the lešyå radiations.
The spiritual progress will depend upon the degree of transformation of the malevolent trinity into the benevolent one. Without actual transformation, there will be no process. This is not merely a speculation, but the basis of a real experience. And to bring about the desired transformation, perception of psychic colour-Lešyà-dhyana has proved to be a practical means of transformation. Lešyā-dhyāna is thus an efficient tool of sucessively diminishing the intensities of the malevolent lesya from Krsna to Nila and from Nila to Kāpota, and then progressively increasing the intensities of the benevolent lesya—from Tejas to Padma and from Padma to Šukla. The actual spiritual progress commences with the conversion of Kāpota to Tejas, i.e. from
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