Spiritual significance given by The Mother
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Since 1927, The Mother gave a "name" or a "significance" to some flowers. An Ashram gardener compiled a list of 410 flowers in 1930. In 1953, a French sadhak edited the Ashram's first book on flowers, Le role des fleurs, comprising of 636 flowers accompanied with a significance for each flower. In the early 1970s, The Mother reviewed the list of flowers and each significance, modifying some, and adding more than 240 new ones. She also made a brief comment on most of the flowers. This led to the book, Flowers and Their Messages, containing 800+ flowers, being published in 1973, with further revisions in 1979, 1984, 1992 and subsequent years. In 2000, The Spiritual Significance of Flowers and La Signification Spirituelle des Fleurs were published in this series.
Flowers are the moment's representations of things that are in themselves eternal.
Sri Aurobindo
On Himself, Page 185
Sweet Mother, how do you give significance to a flower?
By entering into contact with it and giving a more or less precise meaning to what I feel… 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(which are of a vital-emotional order) and the vibration of the mental thought, and if there is a sufficient harmony, one has a direct perception of what the plant may signify.
In some countries (particularly here) certain plants are used as the media for worship, offering, devotion. Certain plants are given on special occasions. And I have often seen that this identification was quite in keeping with the nature of the plant, because spontaneously, without knowing anything, I happened to give the same meaning as that given in religious ceremonies. The vibration was really there in the flower itself.... Did it come from the use that had been made of it or did it come from very far, from somewhere deep down. From a beginning of the psychic life? It would be difficult to say.
There is an order of significances in which they indicate various psychological dynamisms, e.g., faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances in which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings, Krishna, Mahakali, Radha or else of other superhuman beings.- Sri Aurobindo
Colour and light are always close to each other - colour being more indicative, light more dynamic. Colour incandescent becomes light.- Sri Aurobindo
WHITE. The Divine Consciousness; the Mother's light; purity; integrality.
White is the divine power of purity. White light is the Mother's light, the light of the Divine Consciousness in its essence. In this white light all other lights are contained and from it they can be manifested; for this reason white also indicates integrality, completeness, totality — especially the integrality of the being in all its parts, from the physical being to the true self. The adjective "integral" appears in the significances of many white flowers; the white zinnia, for example, is named Integral endurance and signifies endurance in all the parts of the being.
GOLD. The divine Truth; the supramental Truth-Consciousness; the Supramental or Supermind.
Gold indicates the divine Truth. Golden light is the light of the divine Truth on the higher planes above the ordinary mind — a light supramental in origin. The golden sun is the symbol of the Divine Light and Truth and of the Supermind.
GOLDEN YELLOW. The light of the Truth in the mind.
YELLOW. The mind; the thinking mind.
Yellow is the characteristic colour of mind, especially the thinking mind, the intellect. Its shades indicate different intensities of mental light. Yellow is the light of mind growing brighter as one goes higher till it meets the golden light of the Divine Truth.
PALE BLUE. Higher ranges of mind.
Pale blue is the colour of the higher ranges of mind up to the Intuition; above it, it begins to become golden with the supramental light.
PALE WHITISH BLUE. Sri Aurobindo's light; Sri Krishna's light.
A whitish blue like moonlight is known as Sri Aurobindo's light or Sri Krishna's light. There are different Krishna lights, depending on the plane in which the light manifests. Pale diamond blue is Krishna's light in the overmind, lavender blue in the intuitive mind, a deeper blue in the mind, and so on. Blue is also Radha's colour.
LAVENDER BLUE. Devotion.
DEEP BLUE. The physical mind; mental power in the physical.
PINK. The psychic.
Pink or pale rose is the characteristic colour of the psychic. Pink, especially pink mixed with lavender, mauve or pale purple, can also indicate the emotional vital.
ROSE. Psychic love.
GREEN. Vital strength; energy, generosity, self-giving; the emotional life-force; the emotional vital; the emotions.
A vital energy of work and action, green is very usually associated with Life and a generous emanation or action of forces -often of the emotional life-force. Green light can signify various things according to the context — in the emotional vital it is the colour of a certain form of emotional generosity, in the vital proper an activity with vital abundance or vital generosity behind it; in the vital physical it signifies a force of health. Green is the colour of the emotional vital and of the emotions.
LAVENDER. The vital, especially the higher vital or emotional vital.
MAUVE. The vital.
Mauve is a colour of the vital, light mauve tending to indicate the higher vital or emotional vital, deep mauve the vital proper.
VIOLET. The vital; vital power; protection; Divine Compassion; Divine Grace.
Violet is a colour of the vital plane, dark violet indicating vital power. Violet is also the colour of protection and of benevolence or compassion, but more vividly of the Divine Grace; it is the light of the Divine Grace and Compassion.
PURPLE. The vital; the vital force; vital power.
Purple is a characteristic colour of the vital. It is the colour of the vital life-force and of vital power. Dark purple may indicate the lower vital.
PURPLE RED. The vital consciousness; the vital life-force.
RED. The physical; the material world.
Red is the colour of the physical and of the material world. Darker shades of red, however, may also indicate some part of the vital.
DEEP RED. Divine Love.
CRIMSON. Love manifested in the physical.
Crimson light indicates the manifestation of love in the material atmosphere or in the vital and physical together.
ORANGE. The Supramental in the physical; the supramental physical light; occult knowledge.
Orange or red-gold or golden red is the light of the Supramental in the physical, the light of Divine Truth in the physical. Orange is also the colour of occult knowledge or occult experience.
BLACK. Obscurity, chaos, blindness, ignorance.
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