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Ans. The purity of feeling and the brightness of the
- aura are interrelated. Pure feeling makes the aura bright, and a bright aura makes for pure vision. The purity of feelings and colours is a strong factor. But then there are degrees of purity. There exists an evolutionary order in which red, yellow and white are recognized to be pure, the purer, and the purest respectively. The red colour is the entrance door to spiritual development; the yellow is indicative of a stage ahead, and the white of still further development.
Unsteadiness is a problem. Steadfastness is the solution to it. The activation of tejoleshya marks the beginning of the development of mental, verbal and physical stability. The growth of steadiness means the development of religiousness or spirituality. That a man should be religious or spiritual, and yet unsteady, is impossible. More complex than the unsteadiness of body and speech, is the unsteadiness of the mind. With the decrease of mental unsteadiness, there occurs a corresponding decrease in rude or impertinent behaviour, with a corresponding development of politeness.
The greatest impediment in the achievement of stability is the lack of control over the senses and the mind. Indisciplined instincts give rise to pride, deceitfulness and inquisitiveness. With the growth of tejoleshya, all these behaviours begin to change and positive feelings manifest themselves. Arrogance is transformed into gentleness, deceitfulness into sincerity, and inquisitiveness into detachment.
Q. Do the current of feeling and the aura affect only
the outward behaviour of a person or does a change also occur in his inner attitude?
Ans. As long as unclean leshya and colours are pre
--- dominant, one's interest in studies remains unrefined. The literature of violence and sex appeals only to
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