Flowers and Their Messages - Flowering Vines

How miserable that obscurity which keeps men away from the very thing which would bring them happiness and subjects them to this painful school of ordinary existence fashioned entirely from struggle and suffering! 3

The role of the Higher Mind? It ought to receive inspirations from above, ought to transmit them in the form of ideas to the most material mind, so that the latter may execute things, make formations. It serves as an intermediary between the higher power and the active mind. The Higher Mind is a mind of idea-formation and at the same time… (The noise of the wind drowns Mother's voice for a moment.)

That's its purpose. It can also try to give some understanding of things which are above the more ordinary mentality, to explain, to clarify general ideas and the principles which go beyond them. 5

Inspiration

Brings its manifold gifts to him to knows how to receive them

Perfect Radiating Psychology

Can only be obtained by acquiring the divine vision.

Power Aspiring to Become an Instrument for the Divine Work

Power, opening to a higher consciousness, awakens to the need of being at the service of the Divine

Victory in the Vital – another form – a new cultivar

In the vital even a little victory has great consequences

(Dictated to Tara by Mother)

Victory

Will triumph over all obstacles.

(Dictated by Mother to Tara)

… the first victory is to create an individuality. And then later, the second victory is to give this individuality to the Divine. And the third victory is that the Divine changes your individuality into a divine being.

There are three stages: the first is to become an individual; the second is to consecrate the individual, that he may surrender entirely to the Divine and be identified with Him; and the third is that the Divine takes possession of this individual and changes him into a being in His own image, that is, he too becomes divine.6

Some new forms of VICTORY photographed in Thailand

Victory

Spiritual Power of Healing

Mother’s comment: 17.9.71

Opening and receptivity to the divine influence.

Divine Ananda

Abundant, succulent, nourishing, full of vigour.

THE world lives in and by Ananda. From Ananda, says the Veda, we were born, by Ananda we live, to Ananda we return, and it adds that no man could even have the strength to draw in his breath and throw it out again if there were not this heaven of Bliss embracing our existence as ether embraces our bodies, nourishing us with its eternal substance and strength and supporting the life and the activity.7

Botanical Notes

Obscurity Offering Itself to be Transformed – Thunbergia alata – Black-eyed Susan Vine

Transformation Makes the Obscurity Disappear – Thunbergia alata 'Julietta’. I found a packet of seeds of this lovely cultivar in England, planted it at the Matrimandir Gardens Nursery and then sent the flower to Mother through Tara.

Opening of the Emotional Centre to the Light – Pandorea jasminoides – Bower Plant – A light vine.

Collective Emotions Open to the Divine – Mansoa alliacea [Pseudocalymna alliaceum] – Bejuco de ago, Garlic-vine

Purified Senses – Clitoria ternatea – Blue pea, Butterfly pea, Mussel-shell creeper

Voice of the Higher Mind – Anemopaegma carrerense - A medium size vine easily grown in sun to partial shade.

Inspiration – Aristolochia grandiflora – Pelican flower (Calico flower) – This is the largest Aristolochia with a flower that measures at least 30 cm in length and a ‘tail’ that is even longer. It is basically the same shape as the smaller Aristolochia (A. littloralis)

Perfect Radiating Psychology – Chonemorpha fragrans – A rampant vine with large, thick hairy leaves.

Power Aspiring to Become an Instrument for the Divine Work – Passiflora vitifolia – Passion Flower

Victory in the Vital – Allamanda blanchetti (A. violacea) – Purple Allamanda - A recent cultivar

Victory - Allamanda cathartica – Common Allamanda, Golden Trumpet

Spiritual Power of Healing – Petrea volubilis – Purple Wreath, Sandpaper, Queen’s Wreath

Divine Ananda – Vitis vinifera – Common Grape Vine, Wine Grape, European Grape

Footnotes