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THE MOTHER
The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
Part I
Test and Photograph
Contents
Part II
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
First Edition 2000 (C) Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2000 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Pondicherry, India Printed in Singapore at Ho Printing ISBN 81-7058-609-7 |
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Flowers and Their Significances
Chapter 1
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 - The Mother. Aditi is the indivisible consciousness, force and Ananda of the Supreme; the Mother, its living dynamis, the supreme Love, Wisdom, Power. SRI AUROBINDO
According to the Truth of things . . . the worlds are brought forth from the divine consciousness, from Aditi, goddess of infinite being, mother of the gods, the indivisible consciousness, the Light that cannot be impaired. . . . SRI AUROBINDO
The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine - which is the Mother of all things. SRI AUROBINDO
The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence. ... SRI AUROBINDO
All is created by the Supreme Goddess, the Supreme and Original Mahashakti, all proceeds from her, all lives by her, all lives in her, even as she lives in all. All wisdom and knowledge are her wisdom and knowledge; all power is her power, all will and force her will and force, all action is her action, all movement her movement. All beings are portions of her power of existence. SRI AUROBINDO Page - 2
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The word Avatara means a descent; it is a coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status. SRI AUROBINDO
An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth. THE MOTHER
An Avatar, roughly speaking, is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence. SRI AUROBINDO
The reason for which the Avatars descend is to raise up man again and again, developing in him a higher and ever-higher humanity, a greater and yet greater development of divine being, bringing more and more of heaven again and again upon the earth until our toil is done, our work accomplished and Sachchidananda fulfilled in all even here, even in this material universe. SRI AUROBINDO
The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality. He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human v/ills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all this unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine. SRI AUROBINDO
Surely for the earth-consciousness the very fact that the Divine manifests himself is the greatest of all splendours. Consider the obscurity here and what it would be if the Divine did not directly intervene and the Light of Lights did not break out of the obscurity — for that is the meaning of the manifestation. SRI AUROBINDO Page - 4
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