Flowers and Their Messages

Language: English
Pages: 336 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)






















Editor's Note



Flowers and Their
Messages is
primarily a book of the Mother, where Sri Aurobindo's
touch is undoubtedly felt. The spiritual significances of flowers are, we
believe, a completely new way of looking at them. It may also be called a book
of the Integral Yoga, for the Mother used flowers as an aid in our
self-development to realise the highest possibilities that await us. A
conscious and intimate relationship with flowers can help us to experience a
beautiful communion with the Divine. Sri Aurobindo once remarked: "The
plants are very psychic but they can express it only by silence and
beauty." Here the Mother has made of that beauty an eloquent and potent
expression.



This revised and enlarged edition has in the
Introduction a few more passages from the writings of the Mother and Sri
Aurobindo. The section 'Nature, the Mother and Flowers' traces her sensitivity
to Nature and her intuitive work of giving the spiritual significances of the
flowers that were offered to her. Two other lists have been inserted: the first
is a compilation of some of the names previously used by the Mother; the second
gives the corresponding name to hibiscus flowers first given for Auroville. We have added one more flower that Mother named
but was not included till now. This Hibiscus appears on page 115.



As in earlier editions the order of botanical names
is followed, but these are often shortened by giving only the generic name. In
the case of the conifers and the