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color is red because she gives away red. Devi
signifi es that vibrance. Her energy is absolute
vibrance and exuberance. Because of that,
Devi is red – not because she is red, because
she is not red!
The meaning of the color blue
Blue is the color of all-inclusiveness. You
will see in the existence, anything that is
vast and beyond your perception generally
tends to be blue, whether it is the ocean or
the sky. Anything which is larger than your
perception tends to be blue because blue is
the basis of all-inclusiveness. It is based on
this that so many gods in India are shown as
blue-skinned. Shiva has a blue skin, Krishna
has a blue skin, Rama has a blue skin. It is not
that their skin was blue. They were referred
to as blue gods because they had a blue aura.
There is another aspect to this. In terms of
one’s evolution, there are various hues that
one’s aura can take. If we make the Agna very
important in our sadhana, then orange will
be the dominant color. That is the color of
renunciation and kriya. If someone has a pure
white aura, that means this is a pure being.
Such a person’s presence will be fantastic,
but he will not be so action-oriented. When
someone attains to their highest but chooses
to be active in the world, his aura will always
be electric blue. Anyone who was dynamic
was blue. It is this type of aura which allows
you to function in the world in a way that
other people think is superhuman.
Why people who walk the spiritual path
choose orange as their color, at least in this
country, is because orange suggests so many
things. When a person is moving towards
Agna, it can be very visibly noticed that the
color of Agna is orange. It is organically
and naturally so. If you go into certain
meditations, you will clearly see that Agna is
orange or saffron. The color is not actually
saffron, it is ochre. The Agna chakra is the
chakra of knowing or enlightenment, and is
known as the third eye.
There are 114 chakras in the body. Two of
these do not ascribe to any color because they
are not physical in nature. The rest of the 112
chakras ascribe to some color. Anything that
is physical in the existence naturally refl ects
light. Once it refl ec ts light, it will AZhave
color in your perception. People who are on
the path where the whole process is about
enlightenment and opening up that dimension
of perception referred to as the third eye,
will always seek ochre because they want to
radiate that color.
Normally, a person who switches to
orange drops everything that was old – his
name, his identity, his family, his looks, his
everything – and shifts into a different life.
That means he is making a new beginning,
a new sun has risen in his life. A certain
realization has come where he is willing
to shed everything and walk into another
dimension of life or another possibility. It also
suggests gnana and vision. Either a person
has developed or he wants to develop a new
vision, that’s why he is going into it. For both
people it is good to wear orange. Orange is
also a symbolism. When the sun rises in the
morning, it is orange. You wear this color to
indicate that a new light has come into your
life and a new rising has happened within
you –a new udaya. A new sun is beginning
to rise within you. Another aspect is, when
the fruit matures, it becomes orange. Orange
is a symbol of maturity. When a person has
attained to a certain level of maturity or
ripening, he uses this color. any town for too long. He was continuously
moving from village to village and town to
town. There was no time to prepare people
for any kind of practice, so he gave them
a very rudimentary process. But still he
was converting them into monks. He was
fi xing their life but not giving them enough
preparatory steps, so he told them to wear the
yellow robe because yellow is the color of
the Muladhara chakra. The most basic chakra
in the body is Muladhara. He wanted them
to be stable. Such a process is taught when
you are charting out a spiritual path for a few
lifetimes. That tradition still continues in the
Buddhist way of life. They keep coming back
and coming back to do more work because the
process is of stabilization, not of realization.
So he told them to wear yellow robes.
The meaning of the color white Themeaning of the color black
White or aatvarang means the eighth color.
If you are in a certain space which is
There are seven colors; white is the eighth
powerfully energized and you want to
color. This eighth color or aatvarang means
imbibe, black is good. Black does not give
that dimension of life which is beyond.
out anything, it absorbs everything. If you
White is not really a color. When there is no
wear black and go to a good space, you will
color, only white is there. It is the absence
absorb that. But if you wear black and go to
of color that makes it white. At the same
a bad space, you will absorb that. So, not
time, white is all-inclusive. The white light
everyone is qualifi ed to wear black.
that you see contains all of the seven colors.
If you continuously remain in black
You can refract those colors and separate all
clothing and expose yourself to a variety of
seven of them. White has a good impact on
situations, you will notice that your energies
you. Especially when you live in a tropical
will fl uctuate and it sucks out all the emotion
country, white is the best color to wear. It
from you and gets your mind into very
is comfortable weather-wise. Traditionally,
volatile, imbalanced states. It makes you into
a person who wears orange cuts himself off
a silent suffering. You will suffer in such a
from family and social situations. The one
way that you cannot even fi nd expression to
who chooses white walks the spiritual path,
your suffering. But if you wear black in a
but is still involved in the other aspects of
situation which is very vibrant and positive,
life. Those who are on a path where they don’t
you will absorb a tremendous amount of
want to gather anything will wear white. Their
energy, which is good for you. Black should
sadhana is mild, but
be worn only if you are
they are on the spiritual
ensured of the quality
A new sun is beginning
path, but they are
of the space.
to rise within you.
involved with various
Another aspect is, when
aspects of life, they
Vairagya
the fruit matures, it
don’t want to gather
You may have heard
becomes orange. Orange
life around them. They
the word “vairagya“.
is a symbol of maturity.
want to be participating
“Raga,” means color.
When a person has
in life but they don’t
“Vai” means beyond.
attained to a certain level
want to gather anything,
“Vairag,”
means
of maturity or ripening,
such
people
will
beyond color. You have
he uses this color.
choose to wear white.
become
transparent.
The meaning of the
If you have become
color yellow
transparent, if what is
In the Buddhist tradition, monks, who
behind you is red, you turn red too. If what
graduated to what Gautama called arhats,
is behind you is blue, you turn blue too. If
wore ochre robes. The rest wore yellow
what is behind you is yellow, you turn yellow
robes because the process that Gautama
too. You are unprejudiced. Wherever you are,
gave to the initial stage of Buddhist monks
you become a part of that, but nothing sticks
was a very rudimentary process. He chose
to you. Only if you are like this, only if you
this process for them because it did not need
are in a state of Vairag, then you will dare to
any preparation. He wanted to cause a wave
explore all dimensions of life when you live
of awareness. That means he didn’t stay in
here.
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