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Mental Happiness
Numerous benefits accrue from the practice of perception of psychic colours. Some benefits pertain to the internal functions and some to the external ones : some are physical and some mental. One of the immediate benefits is mental happiness. As one becomes more accomplished, mental happiness increases. The feeling is not of joy or pleasure, but of happiness. There is much difference between the two. Wherever there is joy, there is bound to be sorrow, they are inseparable. What one achieves as a benefit is happiness, and not joy. An internal benefit is refinement of one's aura. A regular practitioner of systematic meditation, has a refined aura, purified leśyā and undistorted emotions.
Evidence of Religiosity
One may desire to protect himself from the miseries accruing from sin, by seeking refuge in religion. That is, one wants to escape the consequences of sinful life. At the same time, one wishes to get that which is not obtainable from it. Bad habits, vicious mentality, anxiety, agitation and mental tension-all these result from a sinful life, but one wants to get rid of them. He wants peace, harmony, freedom from tension, sympathy and friendship. That is why one desires to take refuge in religiousness. Even after accepting the religion, if one does not change, there is something wrong some-where, i.e. either he failed to follow the religious path or he made a wrong choice of the creed.
One adopts a religion or a creed and adheres to it for the whole life. But at the time of death, one strikes a balancesheet and finds that the result is zero, that there has been no spiritual progress, no change in his behaviour, and that there is no evidence of religiosity in his way of life. In that case, it
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