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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/The Spiritual Significance of Flowers - Part 1/Awakening of Matter.htm
Chapter 11
Awakening in Matter
A resplendent sun rises above the horizon. It is your Lord that comes to you.
The whole world awakes and stretches in delight at the contact of His glory.
As the earth that heaves and opens, as the tree that grows, as the flower that blossoms,
as the bird that sings, as the man that loves, let His light permeate you and radiate in
an ever-increasing and widening happiness, a happiness steadily moving onward as
the stars move in heaven.
The Mother
In Matter shall be lit the spirit's glow,
In body and body kindled the sacred birth;
Night shall awake to the anthem of the stars,
The days
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/The Spiritual Significance of Flowers - Part 1/Collaboration of Nature.htm
Chapter 10
Collaboration of Nature
In her green wildernesses and lurking depths,
In her thickets of joy where danger clasps delight,
He glimpsed the hidden wings of her songster hopes,
A glimmer of blue and gold and scarlet fire.
In her covert lanes, bordering her chance field-paths
And by her singing rivulets and calm lakes
He found the glow of her golden fruits of bliss
And the beauty of her flowers of dream and muse.
Sri Aurobindo
Nature proves her collaboration with a smile of flowers.
The Mother
O Nature, Material Mother, thou hast said that thou wilt collaborate and there can be no
The Origin of the Significances
Mother, when flowers are brought to you, how do you give them a significance?
By entering into contact with the nature of the flower, its inner truth. Then one knows what it represents.
Mother, how do you give a significance to a flower?
By entering into contact with it and giving a meaning, more or less precise, to what I feel.
Mother, each flower has its own significance, doesn't it?
Not as we understand it mentally. There is a mental projection when one gives a precise significance to a flower. ... A flower does not have the equivalent of a mental consciousness. ... It is rath
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/The Spiritual Significance of Flowers - Part 1/Aditi and Avatar.htm
Flowers and Their Significances
Chapter 1
Aditi and Avatar
The red lotus is the Avatar.
The white lotus is the Divine Consciousness. THE MOTHER
The red lotus represents Sri Aurobindo, the white one represents me.
In a general way the lotus is the flower of the Divine Wisdom, whatever its colour.
But red signifies the Avatar, the Divine incarnated in matter, and white
signifies the Divine Consciousness manifested upon earth. THE MOTHER
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ADITI
Aditi — The Mother. Aditi is the indivisible consciousness, force and Ananda of the Supreme; the Mother, its living dynamis,
the supre
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/The Spiritual Significance of Flowers - Part 1/Spiritual Attainments.htm
Chapter 7
Spiritual Attainments
If mankind could but see though in a glimpse of fleeting experience what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures. But the way is narrow, the doors are hard to force, and fear, distrust and scepticism are there, sentinels of Nature, to forbid the turning away of our feet from her ordinary pastures.
Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is in its essence an awakening to the inner real
Chapter 9
Planes of Consciousness and Parts of the Being
The soul of man soars as the Bird, the Hansa, past the shining firmaments of physical and mental consciousness, climbs as the traveller and fighter beyond earth of body and heaven of mind by the ascending path of the Truth to find this Godhead waiting for us, leaning down to us from the secrecy of the highest supreme. . . .
Sri Aurobindo
In the spiritual order of things, the higher we project our view and our aspiration, the greater the Truth that seeks to descend upon us, because it is already there within us and calls for its release from the covering tha
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of The Mother/English/Other Editions/The Spiritual Significance of Flowers - Part 1/Radha and Krishna.htm
Chapter 12
Radha and Krishna
Was it not he once in Brindavan? Woods divine to our yearning,
Memorable always! O flowers, O delight on the tree-tops burning,
Grasses his herds have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing,
Yamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing,
Unforgotten remind; for his flute with its sweetness ensnaring
Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments baring
Hales us out naked and absolute, out to his woodlands eternal,
Out to his moonlit dances, his dalliance sweet and supernal. . . .
Even an hour of the soul can unveil the Unborn, the Everlastin