Meaning of Colors and

Their Role in Your Life

Sadhguru looks at the role and meaning of colors

for a spiritual seeker, and how colors can have a
significant effect on our lives.

Article Mar 13, 2017

Sadhguru looks at the role

and meaning of colors for
a spiritual seeker, and
how colors can have a
significant effect on our lives.

Read in Hindi : रंगों का महत्व

Sadhguru: How is color significant for

human consciousness as such, or for any kind
of spiritual process? It is significant in the
sense that the color that you reflect will
naturally add to the aura that you carry.
People on the ascetic path don’t want to wear
anything because they don’t want to add
anything new to themselves. They just want
to work with what they have. They don’t
want to take on anything more. What you are
right now, to work that out is quite
substantial. Adding one more thing
complicates it. So they walk naked. If walking
naked is difficult socially, they put on a
loincloth. But the idea is they don’t take on
anything more than what they are. They
know that what they are is itself substantial.
There are other aspects to it but this is in
terms of the color.

What is color, first of all? The color of any

substance is not because of what it is, it is
what it rejects or what it gives away or
reflects. Something looks red not because it is
red, but because it holds back everything that
white light contains and reflects red. So red
does not mean it is red. Red means it is not
red! Whatever you give away, that will be
your quality in the world also.

The meaning of the

color red

If
you
walk
in
the

forest, it is all green but there will be one spot

of red – somewhere one red flower
blossoming – that draws your attention
because in your perception, red is the most
vibrant of all the colors. All other colors may
be pretty and nice but red is vibrant.

Many things which are significant to you are

red. Red is the color of your blood for
example. In human consciousness, colors have
a big impact upon how you feel, and red
creates maximum vibrance. Anything
exuberant means red. You may have heard of
“painting the town red!” Among the deities
that you create, the feminine forms are the
most exuberant. Linga Bhairavi’s color is red
because she gives away red. Devi signifies 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.

The meaning of the

color orange

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 reflects light. Once it reflects light, it
will have 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.

If you have become

transparent, if what is behind
you is red, you turn red too. If
what is behind you is blue,
you turn blue too. Wherever
you are, you become a part of
that, but nothing sticks to
you.

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.

The meaning of the

color white

White or aatvarang means the eighth color.

There are seven colors; white is the eighth
color. This eighth color or aatvarang means
that dimension of life which is beyond. White
is not really a color. When there is no color,
only white is there. It is the absence of color
that makes it white. At the same time, white
is all-inclusive. The white light that you see
contains all of the seven colors. You can
refract those colors and separate all seven of
them.

White has a good impact on you. Especially

when you live in a tropical country, white is
the best color to wear. It is comfortable
weather-wise. Traditionally, a person who
wears orange cuts himself off from family and
social situations. The one who chooses white
walks the spiritual path, but is still involved in
the other aspects of life. Those who are on a
path where they don’t want to gather
anything will wear white. Their sadhana is
mild, but they are on the spiritual path, but
they are involved with various aspects of life,
they don’t want to gather life around them.
They want to be participating in life but they
don’t want to gather anything, such people
will choose to wear white.

The meaning of the

color yellow

In the Buddhist tradition, monks, who

graduated to what Gautama called arhats,
wore ochre robes. The rest wore yellow robes
because the process that Gautama gave to
the initial stage of Buddhist monks was a very
rudimentary process. He chose this process
for them because it did not need any
preparation. He wanted to cause a wave of
awareness. That means he didn’t stay in 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 fixing
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.

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The meaning of the

color black

If you are in a certain space which is

powerfully energized and you want to imbibe,
black is good. Black does not give out
anything, it absorbs everything. If you wear
black and go to a good space, you will absorb
that. But if you wear black and go to a bad
space, you will absorb that.

So, not everyone is qualified to wear black. If

you continuously remain in black clothing and
expose yourself to a variety of situations, you
will notice that your energies will fluctuate
and it sucks out all the emotion from you and
gets your mind into very volatile, imbalanced
states. It makes you into a silent suffering. You
will suffer in such a way that you cannot even
find expression to your suffering.

But if you wear black in a situation which is

very vibrant and positive, you will absorb a
tremendous amount of energy, which is good
for you. Black should be worn only if you are
ensured of the quality of the space.

Vairagya
You may have heard the word "vairagya".
“Raga,” means color. “Vai” means beyond.
“Vairag,” means beyond color. You have
become transparent. If you have become
transparent, if what is behind you is red, you
turn red too. If what is behind you is blue, you
turn blue too. If what is behind you is yellow,
you turn yellow too. You are unprejudiced.
Wherever you are, you become a part of that,
but nothing sticks to you. Only if you are like
this, only if you are in a state of Vairag, then
you will dare to explore all dimensions of life
when you live here.

Editor’s Note: Happy Holi!

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