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strong and effective is the manifestation would depend upon the factors involved.
One stout youth was exposed to different colours and the results evaluated. He was asked to practise weight-lifting in a sky-blue room. The maximum weight he could lift there was 65 kg. The same youth when placed in a room painted red, was able to lift 70-75 kg.
So the colours are only stimuli which are useful in the development of physical power and feeling. It was on this basis that colour-therapy evolved. Its effect has been clearly marked.
Q. Colour is physical, and feeling psychical. It appears — from what you have said about the influence of colours, that matter affects our consciousness. How many forms of colour or leshya are there which leave their impact upon consciousness?
Ans. The psychical order of existence is so intimately
- connected with the physical order of existence that the former cannot remain unaffected by the latter. All the colours found in the world are physical. In the language of Jain philosophy, material environment too is leshya.
Leshya has two forms—material leshya, and psychical leshya. Psychical leshya evolves out of matter. It has colour, smell, taste and tactility. The volition or the current of feeling which develops on the basis of these, is psychical leshya (bhava). Physical leshya may be called the aura in the language of yoga. If the atoms of which the aura is made up, are auspicious, the aura is radiant; if these are inauspicious, the aura is dim. The purer the aura, the purer is the current of feeling. In conclusion it may be said that the aura is a factor in the purity or
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