Traditionally, a person who wears orange cuts himself off from family and social situations. Especially when you live in a tropical country, white is the best color to wear. You can refract those colors and separate all seven of them. The white light that you see contains all of the seven colors. At the same time, white is all-inclusive. It is the absence of color that makes it white. When there is no color, only white is there. This eighth color or aatvarang means that dimension of life which is beyond. There are seven colors white is the eighth color. White or aatvarang means the eighth color. When a person has attained to a certain level of maturity or ripening, he uses this color. Another aspect is, when the fruit matures, it becomes orange. A new sun is beginning to rise within you. 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. When the sun rises in the morning, it is orange. For both people it is good to wear orange. Either a person has developed or he wants to develop a new vision, that’s why he is going into it. A certain realization has come where he is willing to shed everything and walk into another dimension of life or another possibility. That means he is making a new beginning, a new sun has risen in his life. 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. Wherever you are, you become a part of that, but nothing sticks to you. If what is behind you is blue, you turn blue too. If you have become transparent, if what is behind you is red, you turn red too. 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. Once it reflects light, it will have color in your perception. Anything that is physical in the existence naturally reflects light. The rest of the 112 chakras ascribe to some color. Two of these do not ascribe to any color because they are not physical in nature. The Agna chakra is the chakra of knowing or enlightenment, and is known as the third eye. The color is not actually saffron, it is ochre. If you go into certain meditations, you will clearly see that Agna is orange or saffron. When a person is moving towards Agna, it can be very visibly noticed that the color of Agna is 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. It is this type of aura which allows you to function in the world in a way that other people think is superhuman. When someone attains to their highest but chooses to be active in the world, his aura will always be electric blue. Such a person’s presence will be fantastic, but he will not be so action-oriented. If someone has a pure white aura, that means this is a pure being. That is the color of renunciation and kriya. If we make the Agna very important in our sadhana, then orange will be the dominant color. ![]() In terms of one’s evolution, there are various hues that one’s aura can take. ![]() They were referred to as blue gods because they had a blue aura. Shiva has a blue skin, Krishna has a blue skin, Rama has a blue skin. It is based on this that so many gods in India are shown as blue-skinned. Anything which is larger than your perception tends to be blue because blue is the basis 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. The Meaning Of The Color Redīlue is the color of all-inclusiveness. Red means it is not red! Whatever you give away, that will be your quality in the world also. Something looks red not because it is red, but because it holds back everything that white light contains and reflects red. 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. There are other aspects to it but this is in terms of the color. They know that what they are is itself substantial. But the idea is they don’t take on anything more than what they are. ![]() If walking naked is difficult socially, they put on a loincloth. What you are right now, to work that out is quite substantial. They don’t want to take on anything more. They just want to work with what they have. People on the ascetic path don’t want to wear anything because they don’t want to add anything new to themselves. 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.
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