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4-Fire black 4 3 5-Water green 6-Vayu colourless 2 1
There is some reason, therefore, for some seers thinking that the point 2 that is in the right is the Self to be realized. That is the psychic heart wherein the atma dwells. But this view is only partially correct, in so far as the atma mentioned here is not the Absolute self. The colours assigned to these points are also to be justified in a way as they are all major earthy tattvas, or elements, and therefore contain matter which is of that colour. It is when one leaves the heart region that one is free from the experience of colour and in the presence of achromatic experiences.
The view that we move from light to light, usually held by several thinkers and writers, requires modification. From darkness or ignorance or blindness it is true that we seek to move towards light, knowledge and restoration of the power to perceive the future, and our real goal. We are also aware of the supreme fact of death, which seems to be a relief from our present miseries, but also seems to be a problem for those who feel that all life has no meaning if it were merely a travel towards death. Immortality seems to be the goal, and this simply means, for the majority, just physical immortality. If this is not to be had then it is a kind of immortality about which no one has spoken with any degree of clarity, except as a dwelling in a world with bodies which do not register the ravages of time-vijara, vimrtyu.
Whilst this is not incorrect as an explanation of the movement of man towards the ultimate freedom the limitations of darkness, ignorance, nonexistence, and death, the psychological experiences of the higher world as experience of light seem to be not quite exact. We do move from the heart-region initial darkness towards the yellow light (jyotis) and thence to the devotional light of redness, and thence to white light. Most persons reaching this state find that they have the experience of an immense light, brighter than the lights we know. It is the reflection of a still brighter light of the higher worlds of brahmanda (Cosmic Region).But as we pass on we come across the hot bright or dark light which begins to consume the entire ignorance or it is that which leads to the higher experience of the flowing