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(5) Padma leshya is yellow as turmeric, orpiment,
and hemp flowers. (6) Shukla leshya is white like a conch-shell, a gem,
silver, a. garland of pearls, a white flower and a stream of milk.
Q. A living being does not have only one leshya, and - different leshyas have different colours. Is the aura of a living being possessed of many leshyas, of some special kind, or is there in it a combination of different colours?
Ans. The aura is not only of one colour. In it there is
- a combination of many colours, because it evolves out of many leshyas. The colours of leshyas depend upon an individual's particular feelings. Certain feelings are predominant in a particular individual. The leshya colours take after those predominant feelings. Whatever colours are there in the leshya, are also reflected in the aura. Good feelings are white, bad feelings black. On the basis of colours reflected in the pictures taken of the aura, even feelings changing from moment to moment can be grasped.
Q. Can pictures be taken of the aura?
Ans. It is not very difficult to take pictures of the aura.
- Many scientists are engaged in research and experimentation in this connection. The photographs taken by the Russian scientists, the Kirlyan couple, are quite famous. An American woman, J.C. Trust has written a book entitled Atom and Aura. This book is not a collection of imaginary or predominantly ideological facts. The writer has taken pictures of the aura or the ring of light and has printed them. These pictures have been analysed.
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