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"There is a mental projection when you give a precise meaning to a flower. It can answer, vibrate to the contact of the projection, accept the meaning, but a flower has no equivalent for the mental consciousness. In the vegetal kingdom there is a beginning of the mental consciousness. In the animal it is different: the mental life begins to form and for them things have a meaning. But in the flower it is something like the movement of a baby-it is neither a sensation nor a feeling, but something of both; it is a spontaneous movement, a very special vibration. If you are in contact with it, if you feel it, you can get an impression which may be translated as a thought. That is how I give a meaning to flowers and plants. There is a kind of identification with the vibration, a perception of the quality that it represents. Little by little, through a kind of approximation that sometimes comes all of a sudden and on other occasions needs time, there occurs a close approach between these vibrations, that are of the vital- emotional order, and the vibration of mental thought. If there is sufficient accord, you have a direct perception of what the plant may signify." The Mother |
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Identification with Flowers
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| A deep concentration seized
on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself. with a single cherry-blossom,
then through it with all cherry-blossoms; and as I descended deeper in the
consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the
cherry-tree itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its innumerable
branches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly
this sentence: "Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of the cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this flower-prayer to heaven." When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the blood of the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable peace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body of a tree? In truth, there is none: the consciousness which animates them is identically the same. Then the cherry-tree whispered in my ear: "It is in the cherry-blossom that there lies the remedy for the disorders of the spring." The Mother Translated from the original French |
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| I have noticed a first elementary
psychic vibration in plant life, and truly the blossoming of a flower is the first sign of the psychic presence. The psychic individualises itself only in man, but it existed before him; only it is not the same kind of individualisation, it is more fluid and manifests as force or as consciousness rather than as individuality. Take the rose, for example, its great perfection of form, colour and smell expresses an aspiration and is a psychic gift. Look at a rose opening in the morning with the first contact of the sun-it is a magnificent self-giving aspiration. -The Mother |
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| Have you ever watched a forest with all its countless trees and plants struggling to catch the light-twisting and trying in a hundred ways to be in the sun? That is precisely the feeling, of aspiration in the physical-the urge, the movement, the push towards the light. Plants have more of it in their physical being than man. Their whole life is a worship of light. Light is of course the material symbol of the Divine, and the sun represents, under material conditions, the supreme Consciousness. The plants feel it quite distinctly in their own simple, blind way. Their aspiration is intense, if you know how" to become aware of it.-The Mother | ||||||||
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The movement of love is not limited to
human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in worlds other than the
human world. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all
becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion
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All extracts and quotations
from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the Photographs
of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are
copyright Sri Aurobindo Trust, Pondicherry India (605002)
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