The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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"The red colour of lightning is the colour of fire, the
white the colour of water, the black the colour of earth.
Thus vanishes from lightning what is commonly called
lighting, the modification being only a name, arising
from speech, while the three colours alone are true.
"It was just through this knowledge that the great
householders and great Vedic scholars of olden times
declared: „No one can now mention to us anything
which we have not heard, thought of, or known.‟ They
knew all from these three forms.
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"Whatever, appeared red they knew to be the colour of
fire; whatever appeared white they knew to be the
colour of water; whatever appeared black they knew to
be the colour of earth. "Whatever appeared to be
unknown they knew to be the combination of these
three deities (i.e. colours). Now learn from me, my
dear, how these three deities, when they reach man,
become each of them tripartite.
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