To conclude this series on “Intimacy with the Divine” we have our last species and it is one of great beauty. Mother has named it “Intimacy with Universal Nature”.
Mother comments: “This intimacy is only possible for those who are vast and who are without preference or repulsion.”
I read a fascinating story some years ago about the great plant explorer, David Fairchild for whom the botanical Garden in Florida was named. He was studying plants of the Himalayas and, looking out across the plains of India, he saw a blue sea where there could not have been a sea. Yet there were miles of a deep blue shade and he had to travel through jungles and scrub jungles for two days to finally come upon, to his great surprise, vast groves of Lagerstroemia speciosa, “Intimacy with Universal Nature” with their glowing purple-blue flowers.
When Mother asked me to come to build the Gardens of the Matrimandir in 1969 I found an area with some shade from Mango trees to start the Matrimandir Gardens Nursery. I found two forms of “Intimacy with Universal Nature”, a beautiful cerise pink and a deep purple-blue. These are the two colours that were named by Mother, or at least given the significance by Her. There are other forms but these were the two that I had the blessing to grow and they were, and still are, magnificent specimens. The flowers are much larger than those of any other species or hybrid crepe myrtle. As it is with many plants and many photographs, there are variations in colour due to soil, climate and the photographer!
This shade is actually often much deeper.
Narad (Richard Eggenberger)
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