The Mother gave the significances of 880+ flowers as a key to the 'subtle language of flowers', listed here with botanical names, color, comments and photographs.
The Mother: 'Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them.. It is a subtle and fragrant language. As if to provide a key to this language, She identified the significances of 880+ flowers. In this book, these flowers and their meanings are presented in the light of her vision and experience. For each flower in Part 1, the following details are given: the Mother's significance, her comment on the significance, the botanical name, and the colour or colours of the flower. Relevant quotations from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother accompany many flower-significances as an aid to understanding them. For most flowers there is a colour photograph to facilitate identification. This reference volume contains indexes, glossaries, descriptions of the flowers and other information. There are three indexes : an Index of the Mother's Significances, an Index of Botanical Names and an Index of Common Names.
THEME/S
Chapter 11
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 become a happy pilgrim march.
Sri Aurobindo
The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face.
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Our material world is the result of all the others, for the other principles have all descended into Matter to create the physical universe, and every particle of what we call Matter contains all of them implicit in itself. Sri Aurobindo
Matter is the form of substance of being which the existence of Sachchidananda assumes when it subjects itself to this phenomenal action of its own consciousness and force.
For one who knows how to see behind appearances, there is hidden at the centre of this Matter — at the centre of each atom of this Matter — there is hidden the Supreme Divine Reality working from within, gradually through the millennia, to change this inert Matter into something that is expressive enough to be able to reveal the Spirit within.
The Mother
865 Vital joy in Matter The reward for abolishing selfishness. Nierembergia hippomanica. Blue violet
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866 First mental awakening in Matter It has preceded and prepared man's future upon earth. Tribulus terrestris. Yellow
867 First appearance of the psychic in Matter A messenger of beauty. Jatropha multifida. Red or deep pink
868 Psychic awakening in Matter Matter opens itself to spiritual life. Dodonaea viscosa. Green
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869 The psychic governs Matter The psychic influence compels the physical to turn towards the Divine. Erythrina variegata 'Alba'. White
870 Beginning of realisation in Matter Matter responds to the divine influence. Erythrina variegata. Orange red to dark red
871 Matter prepares itself to receive the Supramental Matter strives to free itself from old habits in order to prepare for the new realisation. Erythrina variegata. Bright orange
872 Matter aspiring for the supramental guidance Dissatisfied and troubled, Matter asks for a powerful guide to put it in order. Odontonema strictum. Red
873 Matter under the supramental guidance The condition required for its transformation. Hamelia patens. Orange
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874 Material enterprises Many projects, many attempts, many constructions. Ceiba pentandra. Cream white
875 Splendour and opulence in material life Can become widespread only through transformation. Quassia amara. Scarlet
876 Material abundance Nature always shows us what true abundance is — one is overwhelmed! Gossypium. Cream white
877 Silver Manifold and white, it aspires for spirituality. Proiphys amboinensis. White
878 Gold Should only be used in the service of the Divine. Bauhinia tomentosa. Light yellow
879 Purified gold It is purified by being placed at the service of the Divine. Bauhinia acuminata. White
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880 Ether Charming and ethereal, it is bound to please. Porana paniculata. White
881 Air Light, subtle, almost invisible. Cestrum nocturnum. Light green
882 Fire Fears no obstacle. Caesalpinia pulcherrima. Orange red
883 Water Fluid, abundant and pure. Porana volubilis. White
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