The Mother loved flowers.
Once I wrote to her that the fragrance of the
flowers given by her was extraordinary. She answered:
“Flowers are very receptive and they are
happy when they are loved”.
As an instance of the receptivity of flowers
she told me that she had seen a faded flower reviving when Sri Aurobindo held
it in his hand for some time. She has also spoken of fresh flowers getting
faded in the hands of persons with a closed psychic.
Mother observed flowers in great detail.
One day I wrote to her: “Day before
yesterday, as I was arranging my vase for you, I said to a flower. ‘Oh, you are
going to Mother” and it really smiled. The same thing happened again yesterday
and today.”
She replied. “That is very interesting
indeed. Was it a rose or a hibiscus?”
I informed her that it was a hibiscus and she
wrote: “Yes, this flower is very conscious, I have had many proofs of that”
There was a time when I offered flowers to
Mother in the afternoon. In order to preserve their freshness I kept them in
the refrigerator in the morning, the hibiscus which Mother has named Grace is
white in the morning and turns pink in the afternoon. Having noticed for some
days that it remained white in the fridge, I informed that the Grace flower if
kept in the cold does not turn pink. She remarked that it has to be kept not
only in the cold, but also in the shade.
On one occasion, in pursuance of an inner
feeling, I fitted the pink rose ‘surrender’ into the top opening of the champa
flower ‘psychological perfection; so as to look like one whole and offered it
to Mother. She looked at it for a while and with a smile of understanding, said
amusingly, “I thought there was some new flower!”
(“From
the Editor’s Desk” by Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala, Sri Aurobindo’s Action,
Puducherry)
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