Preksha Dhyana Perception of Psychic Colours

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

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When you are facing a serious problem with no apparent solution, try this simple experiment:
Quietly sit down and relax : breathe slowly; keep your body motionless and limp; close the eyes softly; perceive golden yellow colour (padma leśyā) on cākṣus kendra or on ānand kendra for ten minutes. A solution
of the problem will present itself. Technique of Perception of Psychic Colours
Leśya dhyāna is perception of psychic colours. In this practice, we perceive a specific colour on a specific psychic centre. Since, for a successful meditational session, actual appearance of the desired colour is essential, it is necessary to know fully about the quality of various colours. First of all, all colours are divided in two categories : (i) bright or shining colours which emitor reflect most of the light falling on it, and (ii) dark and gloomy colours which do not emit, do nocreflect much, but absorb most of the light. Dull and gloomy black, blue and grey are inauspicious, but bright black etc. are not so. Similarly bright red, yellow and white are auspicious, but dark and dullred, etc, are not so. In leśyā dhyāna we visualize bright colours and not gloomy ones'. In leśya dhyāna, the following five bright colours are visualized:
1. Green colour as of emerald.
Blue colour as of peacock's neck.
Red colour as of rising sun. 4. Yellow colour as of sun-flower or gold.
5. White colour as of full moon or snow. 1. Luminous object-sun, moon, stars, lighted bulb or tubelight etc. emit lighus of
differentcolours, e.g. a rising sun first emiu red, then orange and then white light. All these are bright colours. Other objects can be seen wlien light falls upon them. Brightnes or dulines of their colours will depend upon how much of the falling light is reflected and how much is absorbed. Thus colour of a polislied surface will be bright, because most of the light is reflected, c.g. moonlight itself or sunlight reflected by snow ia bright white. On the other hand, a darkor gloomy colour would be seen in a dull matt surface, e.g. colour of uh la gloomy grey.
Red, yellow and white are auspicious colours only when they are bright. The cclour of most flowers la bright when they are fresh but becomes gloomy when the same flower la withered or dried.
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