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Lagya is of two kinds dravya lebya and bhava lesya Dravya lesya refecs tu thie Karinic material astucling the organistu and radiating the colour, which may be called transcendental colouration Thus, the effect of Karma is two-fold Drauja lisyū is due to the operation of iho Karma in watters affectiug the nature of the organisin It may probably refer to the colour of the body we are told that the denizens of hell arc black in colour Celestial beings get different colours on the basis of the impact of different Karma So is tlic care with human beings This distinction may be referred to the racial colours and the inaumerable distinctions in the individual shades of colour Bhīva lisya refurs to the psychic conditions affecting the individual in creating au dura round the organism The psychic conditions create relleses, and clicy, in turn, may give rise, tlirough some form of rudiation, to some kinds of colouration round the organis1 This may not be ordiuarly visible to the cye, but only to persons disciplmed in Yoga12
Further distictions are made in lesya Six types of primary colours are suggested Tlire of them refer to evil minded persons The six lesyās are - (1) black (Krşua) (2) blue, (nila), (3) dove-grey (Kapota), (4) yellow (pula), (5) pink (Padma) (6) white (Suhla) For instance a man who is wicked and cruel gets the black lesya A man who is affected by anger and envy and who loves pleasure gets the blue lesya One who is disciplined develops the red lesya One who has subducd the passions has yellow One who is engrossed in meditation of the dharma' and truth has the white lasya But the fully liberuted souls have no lesya at allia The ethical significance of this doctrine has been emphasized in this distinction The lesyas are treated as an index of temperament of character Lesyas have a moral bearing14 The Jainas give the cxample of sıx travellers in the forest They see a tree full of fruits They want the fruits of that tree But their ways of securing them widely differ The man with a black lośya intends to uproot the tree, that with a blue, to cut the trunk, that with a grey, to cut the branches, that with a yellow, to take the twigs only, the man with the pink lesya intends to pluck the fruits, while the one who has a pure white lesya is content to take whatever fruits have fallen on the ground 26
There are degree of expression of lasya in terms of time and intenarty We are told in the case of black lesya the duration varies from half a mahūrla to thirty-three sägaropama The effect of the blue leśya varies from belf a muhurta to ten saguropama plus one palyo para and part of asarhkhyeye Sa is the variation in the duration of other lesyas
12 Gomma, asāra Jula Kanda XV also Ultar adh, ayana Sutra XXXIV 13 Uttaradhya) ana Sutra Iect LXXIV SBE VOL. II Footnote 14 Radhakrishnan (S) Indian Philosophy Vol I p 820 Tootnote 15 Gommalasara Jaakonda Ch XV-Y 507-609
