Hydrangea - Collective Harmony
Mother's comment:
"Collective harmony is the work undertaken
by the Divine Consciousness; it alone has the power
to realise it."
Hydrangea 'Annabelle'
We continue with our Spring pageant of the flowers in Mother's Garden.
There have been many great men who communed with Nature, men like George Washington Carver, the great botanist who found more than a hundred uses for the peanut and once said that anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Among his greatest contributions was promoting alternative crops such as soybeans and sweet potatoes when cotton had depleted the soil and was under attack by boll weevils. Luther Burbank developed more than 800 varieties of plants, many of which such as his russet potato and Santa Rosa plum are grown in abundance today. He could walk down a row of 10,000 plum seedlings and instantly choose the two who could be superior to the parents. Then too there was Jagadish Chandra Bose and his ground-breaking work with the nervous system of plants and their response to different kinds of music. A Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction, Bose pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics and made very significant contributions to plant science.
Rudolf Steiner and his Bio Dynamic approach to organic farming that saw all life interrelated went deep into occult science with some interesting results but was often criticized as a pseudo-scientist.
Lastly we have two authors, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird who authored the seminal works work, 'The Secret Life of Plants', and 'Secrets of the Soil' both excellent treatises, the latter a very detailed and brilliantly researched work on healing the earth.
Yet all these brilliant souls did not have the opportunity, the blessing, to learn about the Supramental and its force by reading Sri Aurobindo.
A wealth of hydrangea hybrids were developed in France and Mother, I am certain, knew this flower very well for she has given it the significance, Collective Harmony. For me it is one of the most important plants in Mother's Garden and I have been able to introduce more than 45 varieties. I invite you to enjoy the many colours and forms shown in this blog and to meditate on the significance and Mother's comment.
Mother's comment:
"Collective harmony is the work undertaken
by the Divine Consciousness; it alone has the power
to realise it."