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

A Note on the Matrimandir Gardens Sri Aurobindo spoke of a perfect perfection and indeed the Matrimandir Gardens will exemplify this for it is the Divine who is building them and they will be built exactly according to the Divine Will. In fact, they are already built in the subtle world and only await manifestation on the physical plane. A true spirit of harmony must prevail amongst all who are called to thi

The Matrimandir Nursery and the Matrimandir Gardens "Mother asked me to write you and tell you that She wants you to prepare to come and build the Gardens of the Matrimandir." From a letter from Udar to Narad (Richard Eggenberger). In this article, Narad reminiscences about his life and the starting of the Matrimandir Nursery and Gardens. I have always had a deep connection to flowers. My first conscious remembrance of dealing with flowers was when, 5 years old, I pulled off

On The Significance of the Order of the Matrimandir Gardens I have occasionally been asked about the significance of the arrangement of the twelve gardens of the Matrimandir. How to the gardens relate to each other in the order that has been given by Mother? The first garden is the Garden of Existence. All begins with existence, Sat., and I see this garden as representative of the initial manifestation with its stone, pools, primordial plants such as bamboo, ferns, etc. Sri

A Walk in the Outer Gardens of the Matrimandir I had the opportunity last week to walk through a section of the Matrimandir outer gardens with two friends. It was an extraordinary hour spent in the presence of massive, kingly trees, flowers and fragrances. The eucalyptus were awe-inspiring, towering to great heights. Eucalyptus ptychocarpa was truly magnificent with its brilliant clusters of reddish-pink flowers. All was a revelation of Nature's loveliness. These special children of ours, planted in the early to mid 1970's, had many of the l