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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
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Belief
Simple and candid, does not question.
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Clerodendrum Spp. L. (Lamiaceae [= Labiatae]; Alt. Verbenaceae)
Glorybower
Cream white, borne in large erect terminal panicles. A tall narrow shrub.
Belief
Faith - confidence in the Divine and the unshakable certitude of the Divine's Victory.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
Faith is a general word - shraddhâ - the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace....
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Champaklal Speaks / [Compiled by Champaklal].- 1975, P.221.
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3
This sraddha - the English word faith is inadequate to express it - is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding. And that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the intellect, the heart or the life mind, but the inner soul which better knows the truth of its own destiny and mission.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 20-21. - The Synthesis of Yoga
Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it...
In the ignorance and darkness of the beginning, faith is the most direct expression of the Divine Power which comes to fight and conquer.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 9. - Questions And Answers (1957)
At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us - and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother