{"id":4782,"date":"2013-07-13T01:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:58:15","slug":"13-chapter-12-vol-05-the-spiritual-significance-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/02other-editions\/05-the-spiritual-significance-of-flowers\/13-chapter-12-vol-05-the-spiritual-significance-of-flowers","title":{"rendered":"-13_Chapter 12.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nChapter 12<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nRadha and Krishna<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nWas it not he once in Brindavan? Woods divine to our yearning,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMemorable always! 0 flowers, 0 delight on the tree-tops burning,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGrasses his herds have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nYamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nUnforgotten remind; for his flute with its sweetness ensnaring
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments baring
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHales us out naked and absolute, out to his woodlands eternal,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nOut to his moonlit dances, his dalliance sweet and supernal. . . .
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEven an hour of the soul can unveil the Unborn, the Everlasting,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nGaze on its mighty Companion; the load of mortality casting,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nMind hushes stilled in eternity; waves of the Infinite wander
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThrilling body and soul and its endless felicity squander;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAll world-sorrow is finished, the cry of the parting is over;<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEcstasy laughs in our veins, in our heart is the heart of the Lover.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPag-316 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n


\nRADHA <\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n
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\n
\n\t\t\t\tRADHA’S CONSCIOUSNESS<\/a><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t884 Radha’s consciousness<\/b>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n884 Radha’s consciousness<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSymbolises perfect attachment to the Divine.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nClitoria ternatea.<\/i> Blue <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n885 Radha’s consciousness in the vital<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPerfect attachment to the Divine replaces all
\nvital attractions and passions.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n Clitoria ternatea.<\/i> Light purple
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/td>\n

\n

\nRadha is the personification of the absolute love
\nfor the Divine, total and integral in all parts of the
\nbeing from the highest spiritual to the physical,
\nbringing the absolute self-giving and total consecration of all the being and calling down into the
\nbody and the most material nature the supreme
\nAnanda. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nKrishna is … the divine Flute-player,. . . the
\nimmanent and universal Divine who is the
\nsupreme power of attraction; and the soul, the
\npsychic personality, [is] Radha, who answers to
\nthe call of the Flute-player. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE MOTHER <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nRADHA’S PRAYER <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nO Thou whom at first sight I knew for the lord
\nof my being and my God, receive my offering. Thine are all my thoughts, all my emotions, all the
\nsentiments of my heart, all my sensations, all the
\nmovements of my life, each cell of my body, each
\ndrop of my blood. I am absolutely and altogether
\nThine, Thine without reserve. What Thou wilt of
\nme, that I shall be. Whether Thou choosest for me
\nlife or death, happiness or sorrow, pleasure or
\nsuffering, all that comes to me from Thee will be
\nwelcome. Each one of Thy gifts will be always for
\nme a gift divine bringing with it the supreme
\nFelicity. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE MOTHER<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tPage-316<\/font><\/div>\n

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\nKRISHNA <\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\n\n
\n

\nAt last I find a meaning of soul’s birth
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nInto this universe terrible and sweet,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nI who have felt the hungry heart of earth
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAspiring beyond heaven to Krishna’s feet. <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd heard the passion of the Lover’s flute,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd known a deathless ecstasy’s surprise
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd sorrow in my heart for ever mute. <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNearer and nearer now the music draws,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nLife shudders with a strange felicity; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAll Nature is a wide enamoured pause
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be. <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nFor this one moment lived the ages past; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe world now throbs fulfilled in me at last. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nAll music is only the sound of His laughter,
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAll beauty the smile of His passionate bliss; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOur lives are His heart-beats, our rapture the
\n<\/b>bridal
\n<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf Radha and Krishna, our love is their kiss. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO<\/font><\/td>\n

\n


\n
\n\t\t\t\tKRISHNA’S LIGHT IN THE
\n\t\t\t\tOVERMIND<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

  <\/p>\n


\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n886 Krishna’s light in the Overmind<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n886 Krishna’s light in the Overmind<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe Overmind ready to be divinised. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSalvia farinacea.<\/i> Lavender blue <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage-317 <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n887 Krishna’s light in the mind<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n888 Krishna’s light in the physical mind<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

\n889 Krishna’s light in the senses<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage-318<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
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\n887 Krishna’s light in the mind<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA charming way to become intelligent.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThunbergia grandiflora.<\/i> Light lavender <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n888 Krishna’s light in the physical mind<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe physical mind loses all rigidity
\n<\/b>and
\nbecomes supple and charming.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nRuellia lorentziana.<\/i> Pale lavender <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n889 Krishna’s light in the senses<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA first step towards transformation.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nClitoria tematea.<\/i> Pale blue <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n890 Krishna’s light in the vital<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe light that turns the vital towards the Truth. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nRuellia tuberosa.<\/font><\/i> Pale purple<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n890 Krishna’s light in the vital<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage-319<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n891 First sign of Krishna’s light in Matter<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n891 First sign of Krishna’s light in Matter<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt is the indication of the coming transformation.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEvolvulus alsinoides.<\/i> Sky blue <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n892 Krishna’s influence in the Subconscient<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe best way to be above contingencies.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEcbolium linneanum.<\/i> Bluish green <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n893 Krishna’s light in the Subconscient<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSoon it will no longer be Subconscient. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nEranthemum wattii.<\/i> Purple <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n894 Krishna’s play in the vital<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn His midst it has all its charm.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEichhornia crassipes.<\/i> Light <\/b> lavender <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n892 Krishna’s influence in the Subconscient<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

 \n<\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n893 Krishna’s light in the Subconscient<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage-320<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t894 Krishna’s play in the vital<\/b>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n


\n\t\t\t\t
\nKRISHNA’S PLAY<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

  <\/p>\n


\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n896 Krishna’s play in Matter<\/b>
\n<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n895 Krishna’s play<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA power of progress veiling itself behind
\nappearances. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nTorenia fournieri.<\/i> White, mauve and lavender <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n896 Krishna’s play in Matter<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nBeamy, love and joy are His companions. A play
\nthat widens and makes us progress.
\nTorenia fournieri.<\/i> Pale lavender <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n897 Krishna’s integral play<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAll the parts of the being respond to His influence.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTorenia fournieri ‘Alba’.<\/i> White tinged pale pink <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage-321 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nKRISHNA <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nKrishna is the Eternal’s Personality of Ananda; because of him all creation is possible, because of his
\nplay, because of his delight, because of his sweetness.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nKrishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love
\nand Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the
\nunion of wisdom (Janna) and works and leads the
\nearth-evolution through this towards union with
\nthe Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe boy with the flute is Sri Krishna, the Lord
\ndescended into the world-play from the divine
\nAnanda; his flute is the music of the call which seeks
\nto transform the lower ignorant play of mortal life
\nand bring into it and establish in its place the Lila
\nof his divine Ananda.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n SRI AUROBINDO<\/font><\/p>\n

\nKrishna is the immanent Divine, the Divine
\nPresence in everyone and everything. He is also,
\nsovereignly, the aspect of the Supreme’s Delight and
\nLove; he is the smiling tenderness and the playful
\ngaiety; he is at once the player, the play and all his
\nplaymates. And as both the game and its results are
\nwholly known, conceived, willed, organised and
\nplayed consciously in their entirety, there can be no
\nroom for anything but the delight of the play. Thus
\nto see Krishna means to find the inner Godhead, to
\nplay with Krishna means to be identified with the
\ninner Godhead and to share in his consciousness.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTHE MOTHER <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nGod as beauty, Sri Krishna in Brindavan,
\nShyamsundara, is not only Beauty, He is also Love,
\nand without perfect love there cannot be perfect
\nbeauty, and without perfect beauty there cannot
\nbe perfect delight. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nSRI AUROBINDO<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t\tPage-322<\/font><\/div>\n

\n
\n\n\n
\n

\n
\n
\nKRISHNA’S ANANDA<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n898 Krishna’s Ananda <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

\nManifold and abundant a<\/b>nd so full of charm. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nPlumbago auriculata.<\/font><\/i> Pale lavender blue<\/font><\/td>\n

\n


\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n898 Krishna’s Ananda
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

\nPage- 323 <\/font>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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