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waves of benevolent leśyā, and superimposing them on the former before they reach the physical body. The means of achieving this is perception of psychic colours (leśyā dhyāna). In this technique of meditation, the practitioner visualizes bright beneficial colours, thereby producing waves of benevolent lesya. They would modify the waves of malevolent lesyā emerging from within, and thus countermand the forces of kaṣāya.
It must be remembered that the subtle body-(karma sarira) functions through ultra-microwave radiations. (The conversion into gross emotions would occour much later). The conscious seif also functions through ultra-microwave radiations. This, it is the world of waves and nothing but the waves. For instance, anger is one form of expression of kaṣāya. It originates in the form of waves1 in the field of kaṣāya (karma sarira), where it interacts with the psychic waves and becomes wave of adhyavasaya. So far they are wave-forms and much later on, will take the form of emotion as they interact with endocrines. This is an instance of energy being converted into matter (hormones-chemical messengers). Still later on the feeling of anger will be converted into a more gross form of appropriate action, e.g. aggression. Thus during its journey from the karma sarira to the physical body, the waves of anger pass through the intermediate stage of feeling or emotion before manifesting themselves as behaviour or action. Let us now review the process of countermanding the forces of kaṣāya by leśyā dhyāna, taking anger as an illustration. As shown above, the anger first takes the form of waves. It must be obstructed and opposed at this very stage and that is exactly what is being done by perception of psychic colours (lesyā dhyāna). Counterwaves of auspicious colours are produced which annihilate or at least weaken the force, the effect, and
1. Waves of anger would always be of specific wave-length and frequency but of varying amplitude, which would depend upon the intensity of the anger.
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