Rhododendrons and Azaleas - Abundance of Beauty (Part 1)


In Mother's Garden, usually around the third week of April,
the woods explode with colour and the abundance of beauty.
Azalea (now classified under Rhododendron) blossoms
cover the plants and the rhododendrons light up the gardens
in hues of pink, purple, red, cream-white, white, and more!

It is a sight never to be forgotten.
Take these photographs into the depths of your being,
connect with the messages of the flowers and gratefully
look on life and every gift Nature offers us in this
"adventure of consciousness and joy". (Savitri)
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Mother's Comment

"A beauty that blossoms abundantly and without reserve."

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Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed,
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On every plane the hieratic Power,
Initiate of the unspoken verities,
Dreams to transcribe and make a part of life
In its own native style and living tongue
Some trait of the perfection of the Unborn,
Some vision seen in the omniscient Light,
Some far tune of the immortal rhapsodist Voice,
Some rapture of the all-creating Bliss,
Some form and plan of the Beauty unutterable.
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Flame Azaleas
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Worlds are there nearer to those absolute realms,
Where the response to Truth is swift and sure
And spirit is not hampered by its frame
And hearts by sharp division seized and rent
And delight and beauty are inhabitants
And love and sweetness are the law of life.
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A finer consciousness with happier lines,
It has a tact our touch cannot attain,
A purity of sense we never feel;
Its intercession with the eternal Ray
Inspires our transient earth’s brief-lived attempts
At beauty and the perfect shape of things.