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 10
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 limit to the splendour of this collaboration. The Mother
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842 Nature makes an offering of her beauty It is a spontaneous and effortless offering. Ipomoea. Many colours
NATURE MAKES AN OFFERING OF HER BEAUTY
The world's senseless beauty mirrors God's delight. That rapture's smile is secret everywhere; It flows in the wind's breath, in the tree's sap, Its hued magnificence blooms in leaves and flowers.
Flowers are the moment's representations of things that are in themselves eternal. Sri Aurobindo
In trees and plants, it is the need to grow in order to obtain more light, more air, more space; in flowers, it is the offering of their beauty and fragrance in a loving efflorescence. The Mother
When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with Nature: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing — a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and intense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being also will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here. The Mother
The trees rise towards the sky, beautiful symbol of Nature's aspiration towards the Light. The Mother
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843 Blossoming of Nature Abundant and strong, nothing can stop its growth. Calluna vulgaris. Rose pink
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844 Spontaneous joy of Nature It is man who has made Nature sorrowful. Papaver rhoeas. Several colours
845 Kindness of Nature She is kind when she is loving. Trifolium. Several colours
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NATURE'S HOPE FOR REALISATION The Divine reveals himself in the world around us when we look upon that world with a spiritual desire of delight that seeks him in all things. Sri Aurobindo At these blessed hours all earth sings a hymn of gladness, the grasses shudder with pleasure, the air is vibrant with light, the trees lift towards heaven their most ardent prayer, the chant of the birds becomes a canticle, the waves of the sea billow with love, the smile of children tells of the infinite and the souls of men appear in their eyes. The Mother The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to listen in his heart. The Mother
NATURE'S HOPE FOR REALISATION
The Divine reveals himself in the world around us when we look upon that world with a spiritual desire of delight that seeks him in all things. Sri Aurobindo
At these blessed hours all earth sings a hymn of gladness, the grasses shudder with pleasure, the air is vibrant with light, the trees lift towards heaven their most ardent prayer, the chant of the birds becomes a canticle, the waves of the sea billow with love, the smile of children tells of the infinite and the souls of men appear in their eyes.
The Mother
The whole creation speaks of the Divine to him who knows how to listen in his heart. The Mother
846 Nature's hope for realisation Nature knows that one day she will be able to realise. Mangifera indica. Cream to pale pink
847 Divine Knowledge It is succulent, nourishing, strengthening. Mangifera indica. Several colours
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848 Spontaneous aspiration of Nature towards the Divine Wide open, spontaneous, irrevocable in its spontaneous power. Leucanthemum vulgare. White 849 First conscious reception of the Light in Nature The origin or starting-point of the will to progress. Nature has an instinctive thirst for Light. Commelina. Blue to lavender
848 Spontaneous aspiration of Nature towards the Divine
Wide open, spontaneous, irrevocable in its spontaneous power.
Leucanthemum vulgare. White
849 First conscious reception of the Light in Nature
The origin or starting-point of the will to progress. Nature has an instinctive thirst for Light.
Commelina. Blue to lavender
Flowers spoke in ardent hues an unknown joy. Sri Aurobindo
850 Joy of vegetal Nature in answer to the new Light It dances with joy and laughs happily. Callistemon. Bright red
851 Vegetal goodwill towards the supramental forces Each does what it can. Cuphea micropetala. Cream yellow
852 Nature aspires to be supramentalised The first response of plant life to the action of the supramental forces. Stictocardia beraviensis. Glowing rose red
853 Awakening and first response of Nature to the supramental manifestation Interested, she opens herself and tries to understand. Jatropha integerrima. Reddish pink
854 Abundance All at once Nature gives much to us and we have the joy of abundance. Cucurbita maxima. Golden yellow
855 Multitude Gives itself freely and satisfies innumerable needs. Cocos nucifera. Pale golden orange
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856 Growth It will multiply and assert its right to be. Primula. Many colours
857 Primitive succulence Pleasing to a simple taste. Muntingia calabura. White
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858 Scented marvel One of the innumerable gifts of Nature. Cyclamen purpurascens. Rose pink to magenta
859 Sun-drop Luminous and lovely, it brings joy. Physalis alkekengi. Orange red
860 Rising star Let us hope it is the right one. Aganosma roxburghii. White
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861 Light in fairyland The fairies are ready to let themselves be guided by the Divine. Kalanchoe pinnata. Yellow green
862 Joy in fairyland Light, smiling, effortless, it invites us to share its joy. Kleinhovia hospita. Pale pink
863 Fairy freshness Charming, it refreshes the eyes. Haematoxylum campechianum. Light yellow
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I too have wandered in star-jewelled groves, Paced sun-gold pastures and moon-silver swards And heard the harping laughter of their streams And lingered under branches dropping myrrh; I too have revelled in the fields of light Touched by the ethereal raiment of the winds, Thy wonder-rounds of music I have trod, Lived in the rhyme of bright unlabouring thoughts, I have beat swift harmonies of rapture vast, Danced in spontaneous measures of the soul The great and easy dances of the gods. O fragrant are the lanes thy children walk And lovely is the memory of their feet Amid the wonder-flowers of Paradise.
864 Bird of paradise A bird that never flies away. Heliconia. Orange red
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