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desire to lie, fraud, deceit, cheating, lust, dereliction, laziness etc.-all these vices are produced by this trinity. In the gross body, certain organs are the associates of these lesyā. Adrenals and gonads-these two endocrine glands-work in close alliance with this trinity. It is the malevolent trinity of lesya, which produces the impulsive forces, which, in turn, stimulate its associates in the gross body by appropriate endocrine action which, ultimately, expresses itself in the form of the vicious emotions and passions.
Let us consider this matter from three different disciplines viz. science, philosophy of Yoga and doctrine of lesyā and compare the findings.
According to modern science, the sex-impulse is produced by the action of sex hormones secreted by the gonads. Fear, hate, cruelty, and other irrational feelings are produced by the secretion of the adrenals.
According to the philosophy of Yoga, all urges and impulses are produced in three cakras—svādhiṣṭhāna, maṇipūra and anahata. Thus, these cakras are at par with gonads and adrenals.
According to the doctrine of lesya, sensual desires, meanness, cruelty and lack of self-control are produced by kṛṣṇa leśyā; jealousy, obstinacy, delusion, deceit, shamelessness, sex-impulses and bellingerence are produced by nila lesya. Crookedness, mentality to conceal one's faults, hoarding, perverted belief, betrayl and harshness (of speech) are produced by kāpota leśyā.
When we compare the above three view-points, we find that the concepts of the three lesyās in the doctrine of leśyā, three cakras in Yoga philosophy and the two endocrine glands in science concur with one another. It is clear from the above discussion that the site of origin of all evil impulses in the gross body is the lower and upper abdomen. This part of
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