On Flowers and Their Messages Flowers have been the mediums for messages since time immemorial. In the Victorian era they were used as love notes to convey the deepest feelings between lover and beloved. Yet long before this usage flowers were offered to the gods as vehicles of prayer and devotion. They have also been for ages the most beautiful and heartfelt way of expressing grief and reverence for the dead as well as treasured offerings on the occasions of births, w

A Note of Thanks First and foremost, the gratitude of all the world and especially disciples and devotees of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother should be offered to Tara Jauhar for her careful and diligent preservation of Mother’s commentaries on the messages of flowers. When I visited Tara at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi branch, she showed me a cupboard filled with books she had prepared to hold the commentaries Mother gave when we were preparing the first major revision of the fl

Flowering Vines Protection The Brilliant Bougainvilleas There are many types of vines and they come in all sizes from those that attach their roots to walls, to those that twine around objects to others that climb to great heights to spill over arches and fences and even those that trail along the ground. Mother has named many beautiful vining plants and there are still many more whose significances are yet to be discovered. Unlocking the genetic codes of many species has led to breakthroughs in colour, size and beauty, especial

FLOWERS AND THEIR SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCES Flowers have been mediums for messages since time immemorial. In the Victorian era they were used as love notes to convey the deepest feelings between lover and beloved or to arrange assignations. Yet long before this flowers were offered to the gods as vehicles of prayer and devotion and they have been and remain today the chosen custom of expressing sorrow and reverence for the dead as well as traditional gifts on the occasions of births, weddings and anniversaries. Do flowers have in them a special occult, i.e. hidde

Flowers and Their Messages as given by The Mother Flowering Vines – Part Two 1 Obscurity tired of being obscure The Mother The Divine alone is light - all the rest is semi-obscurity. 2 The Mother 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 sufferi

A Review of the book ^Flowers And Their Spiritual Significance^.htm A Review of the book Flowers and their Spiritual Significance Published by the Sri Aurobindo Society This small book contains for all its compactness, a world of beauty and significance. It has been designed with an

Flowers and Their Messages as given by The Mother Flowering Vines The beauty, the colours, the great variation in size are some of the major qualities of these exceptional flowering plants. Thee is much more, however, since we now have from Mother the ‘Messages’ with which the flowers vibrate and, if we can go deeply enough into ourselves, we can receive and progress within by allowing their vibrations to enter and assist in the transformation of our being. Where to begin one wonders with so many vines fr

Flowering Shrubs – Part 1 – Purity Although there are now more than 20,000 photographs in my library, taken over a period of more than fifty years, beginning with the early Nikon film cameras and various colour films and now progressing into the digital era, there remain may more photos to be taken of plants and flowers whose inner significances Mother has revealed to us. I have selected some of the better photos to include in these articles and initially considered eighty of them arranged by significance, but finally ha