One Must Try to Become Like a Flower
We feature a most delightful conversation from the book ‘Sweet Mother: Luminous Notes’.
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How Flowers Brought Me Closer to the Divine
The author recounts how flowers became the medium for the author to grow into a deeper relation with the Divine in her childhood.
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Inner Awakening to Nature, featuring Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ (with narration)
Nature mysticism and Romanticism in English Poetry go hand in hand. An example is William Wordsworth’s famous poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’.
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Experiencing the Divine through Nature’s Mandalas
Read about some contemplative practices which the author and her team at Creative School use regularly for both Education and Healing purposes.
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“In Nature one can live in beauty, always”
We highlight a few conversations of the Mother in which she focuses on the Beauty aspect of the Divine that is expressed through flowers and all Nature. This also includes its subtler aspect, namely, fragrance.
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Lakshmi Puja in the Ashram – A Memoir
Excerpted from the author’s book ‘Moments Eternal’ this soulful account is intertwined with her childhood memories of celebrating Lakshmi Puja in Bengal, making it a delightful reading.
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Mother’s Close Rapport with Plants, Flowers and Trees
Priti Dasgupta narrates a few incidents which reveal for us the Mother’s deep kinship with the world of plants and flowers.
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Of Flowers, Peace and Perfection
Since August 2021, every month we have been exploring each of the twelve attributes that the Mother says are essential for full manifestation of Her Work. We have now come to Peace. Like the previous eleven issues, here also we explore the soul-quality of Peace in its various dimensions — inner and outer, individual and collective.
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Of Indian Mulberry and Indispensable Peace
Indian mulberry flower is given the spiritual significance – Peace in the sex center. Building upon this, the author reflects on the indispensability of peace in the lower vital part of the being.
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On Candytuft, Equanimity and Finding Balance
The author writes – If you are wondering what made the Mother choose candytuft flower for equanimity, maybe the flower itself has an answer for you. Could it be that when seen from a distance the cluster of flowers looks like one flower but when we get closer we can see the individual small white flowers having their own sepals, petals and a centre? Read on.
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Kashithumba, the Generous Flower
A meditation on Balsam ‘Generosity’ flower inspires the author to dig deep into the subtle but important difference between dakshinā, bhikshā and dāna.
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Goodness and Fragrance of Sweet Alison
Just like the fragrance of Sweet Alyssum, also known as Sweet Alison, spreads all around in the garden attracting honeybees, butterfliers and other pollinators, goodness also spreads its fragrance all around. Read a sweet story about goodness here.
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Arka, the ‘Courage’ Crown Flower
This flower-meditation on Arka, the ‘Courage’ flower beautifully blends some profound reflections on faith and sadhana with a story from the Mahabharata.
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Cancer-buster Rosy Periwinkle
Did you know about the cancer-busting chemical produced by the humble periwinkle, the flower which was given the spiritual significance ‘Progress’ by the Mother? Read all about it here.
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