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Have you ever gone into
a garden early in the morning? The flowers are facing the sun, awaiting its
advent. Have you felt the mighty aspiration that surges all around for the
coming light? Do flowers love? This is their form of
love, this blossoming. Certainly, when one sees a rose opening to the sun, it is
like a need to give its beauty. Only, for us, it is almost unintelligible, for
they do not think about what they do. A human being always Is there a sense of beauty in flowers? Directly there is
organic life, the vital element comes in, and it is this vital element which
gives to flowers the sense of beauty. It is not perhaps individualised in the
sense we understand it, but it is a sense of the species and the species What is this psychic prayer that flowers represent? The psychic, when it manifests in a plant, in the form of a
flower, is in the form of a wordless prayer; it is the elan of the plant towards
the Divine. Since flowers are the
manifestation of the psychic in the vegetal kingdom, love of flowers would mean
that one is drawn by the psychic vibration and consequently by the psychic in
one's own self. How can one enter into psychic contact with flowers? When one is in conscious contact with one's own psychic, one becomes aware of an impersonal psychic behind the whole creation and then, through this, one can enter into contact with flowers and know the psychic prayer they represent.
To the flowers? But it's in the same way, by entering into contact with the nature of the flower, its inner truth. Then one knows what it represents. Each flower has its special significance, hasn't it? Not as we understand it mentally. There is
a mental projection when one gives a precise meaning to a flower. It may answer,
vibrate to the touch of this projection, accept the meaning, but a flower has no
equivalent of the mental consciousness. In the vegetable kingdom there is a
beginning of the psychic, but there is no beginning of the mental consciousness.
In animals it is different; mental life begins to form and for them things have
a meaning. But in flowers it is rather like the movement of a little baby - it
is neither a sensation nor a feeling, but something of both; it is a spontaneous
movement, a very special vibration. So, if one is in contact with it, if one
feels it, one gets an impression which may be translated by a thought. That is
how I have given a meaning to flowers and plants - there is a kind of
identification with the vibration, a perception of the quality it represents
and, little by little, through a kind of approximation (sometimes this comes
suddenly, occasionally it takes time), there is a coming together of these
vibrations If our flower-offering depends on our state of consciousness, does it help us to learn the significances of flowers even if it is purely mental to begin with? Yes, surely. Have flowers a power in the occult world? Yes, they have an occult power; they can even transmit a message if one knows how to charge them with it. Can the flowers transmit other messages apart from the significances you have given It is not impossible but the person who sends the message must have a great power of formation. Is the power of formation purely occult or can a mental or vital power of formation also transmit messages? The mental power of formation can certainly transmit messages. But for these messages to be received and understood, the person to whom they are sent must himself be very receptive mentally and particularly attentive. When we offer flowers, with what attitude should we offer them? Does it matter if we do not know the significance? This depends complely on the person who gives the flowers and on his state of consciousness. The same answer may be given to both the questions. According to the degree of consciousness of people what they do has a deep significance. Do flowers retain the force always, even when they decay? Decay? No, my child; when they dry up, yes.
Decayed flowers are just nothing. A decomposition takes place, so the thing
disappears. Perhaps it brings energy to the soil, that's quite possible; but
still, when it decays it is good only to make manure Sweet Mother, what should we do with the flowers which you give us every day? Flowers? You ought to keep them as long as
they are fresh, and when they are no longer so, you must collect them and give
them to the gardener (any gardener you know), so that he can put them in the
earth to produce other flowers. Yes, one must give THE MOTHER |
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