Soundarya Lahari - Part 269

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Of the three guNas, shuddha-satvaM, or pure satvaM, is the one that does not keep any of the three for itself and therefore it is pure white, like milk. It is taken to be indicative of the para-Brahman, though

the latter transcends all the colours and the gunas. 

On the other side, the colour that keeps all the colours within itself and does not let any reflection out is black and this is the colour of ‘tamas’. It is pure Ignorance. The in-between guna is rajas, the kriyA-shakti. It is red in colour because it is the first colour that separates itself from the pure white sunlight and forms the beginning of the projection of the other colours and creations.

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