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sharpened, can it grasp the subtle vibrations. When the chitta succeeds in establishing contact with the subtle taijasa body, the colours start appearing.
When we visualize rising-sun-red colour on darsana kendra and when the visualization is intensified and sustained, the colour actually appears and is perceived. Then the concentrated perception of this psychic colour, which amounts to entering the field of taijasa leśyā, results in the commencement of the pilgrimage inwards. Then the metamorphosis of stubborn attitude and habits, which were produced by the malevolent trinity, is in sight.The bright red colour has brought about the desired transmutation of our attitudes and behaviour.
Ineffable Innate Happiness
When one enters the field of taijasa leśyā, one experiences ineffable innate happiness. It is a real experience. Experience cannot be communicated to others. One can talk about it, but one cannot transfer it to others. One who has never entered the field of taijasa leśyā by perception of bright red colour can never even imagine let alone experience, that there is a state of bliss, unconnected with the physical body, and transcending all sensual pleasures. Until he passes through this remarkable experience, he cannot even believe that such an unprecedented and ineffable state of bliss exists at all. Prior to such an experience, he believes that the only source of happiness is the sensual pleasures. This belief is drastically changed after the experience that no pleasure in the world can match the state of bliss resulting from the advent of taijasa leśzā. A single actual experience of this type is enough to change one in such a way that he would never again view the sensual pleasures as he did before.
The fact is that the feeling of pleasure does not emanate from objects of sensuality. Science has established
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