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to achieve control over these through Hatha-Yoga. That is why even great ascetics and sadhaks are troubled by this problem and are much concerned about it. One simple resolution to this problem lies in the development of yellow vibrations. People whose lives are suffused by these vibrations, experience a heightening of their faculties. Their mind grows tranquil and their language is restrained. To put it differently, their sense organs engage in no unnecessary activity, the mind is no more restless, and all unnecessary speaking comes to an end. As the outer activity decreases, the sensory nerves become activated, the brain gets fertile and spontaneous joy comes into one's life.
Q. On the occasion of your discussion of the current
of feeling and the aura, you said that with a change in the aura, the current of feeling also changes and if there is a change in the current of feeling, the aura also undergoes a transformation. There is no inevitability of one or the other changing first. But we have also heard it said that the auras of the devas (celestial beings) are bright, yet their current of feeling becomes tainted. Is it correct?
Ans. The processes of change in the current of feeling
- and in the aura are generally interdependent, but there are certain exceptions, too. The aura of the celestial beings is symbolic of such an exceptional situation. The leshya in the celestial beings is said to be determined on the basis of their bodily complexion or the colour of their aura. The colour of the body is called material leshya but this 'is. different from the leshya that accounts for divergence in the aura of the celestial beings and their current of feeling.
Generally, the intellectual power of the man affected by the atoms of yellow colour increases, and his mental health improves and he becomes activated in the direction
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