Transmutation of Personality through Preksha Meditation

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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dhyana), colour forms the fundamental basis of meditation. We shall talk about it at length when we come to discuss leshya dhyana. In the present context, it is worth noting that ‘Arham' meditation is chiefly done with three colours—white, red and yellow. The recitation of Arham' with white colour ensures health and imparts tranquillity. The white colour is capable of driving away disease. A disease-free individual achieves mental health along with physical health. Mental health is the starting point of mental peace.
The red colour is helpful in increasing one's vitality. The colour of the early rising sun is red. He who regularly and properly practises meditation or japa at that time, is successful in arousing his dormant powers.
The yellow colour is the symbol of good fortune, intelligence and splendour. The use of this colour yields wonderful results. Ill fortune is changed into good fortune, there is development of intellectual capacity and one's aura becomes brighter. Of course, the practice of japa, undertaken with any colour, is beneficial. Benefits derived from one colour may also be transmitted to other colours. Still in the science of colours, particular colours, along with the method of their use, are prescribed, chiefly on the basis of a factual analysis.
Q. You just said that the recitation of incantatory
— words like Arham' produces special kinds of sound vibrations, beneficial for the sadhak. Can this benefit be derived from sound vibrations alone, or is it necessary to combine with these vibrations mental concentration and deep feeling?
Ans. The sound vibrations have a virtue of their own;
– so has deep feeling. Sound vibrations, without
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