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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
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Power of progress
Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. (Malvaceae)
Shoeblackplant
Large single pink to light red or reddish orange flowers with smooth petals that are often crimson pink at the edges and a white centre shading to lavender pink. Another form is pinkish orange with a white centre.
Power of progress
I wanted to note exactly how the experience could be defined (Mother reads out a note): "The penetration and permeation into material substance of the Ananda of the power of progress in Life." It wasn't a permeation into the Mind: it was a permeation into Life - into Life, into the material, earthly substance, which had become alive. Even plants participated in last night's experience: it isn't something that was the privilege of the mental being, it's the whole vital substance (vitalized material substance) of the earth that received this ananda of the power of progress - it was triumphant. Triumphant.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 5. - 1964
For each being there is a thirst for something.
That the thirst for something is the Divine?
No, my child. It can be quite simply a desire. How can the thirst for something be the Divine?
I see clearly what you are trying to say, but truly you do not say it: that is, this inner flame of aspiration is what you call the Divine; this inner flame of aspiration which never dies out, which always burns, burns more and more; what in India is called Agni, you know, the will to progress, the power of aspiration; this is what you call the Divine. It is an aspect of the Divine, that's true, but it is not the Divine. It is only one aspect, that is, a divine way of being.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 7. - Questions And Answers (1955)
Now, what the intellect has understood let the whole being realise. Mental knowledge must be replaced by the flaming power of progress.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education
Man finds his full power for progress when he no longer feels bound to Nature or limited by her laws.
Nature is only a limited expression of the Divine, whereas man was created to become the conscious expression of the Divine, with all the possibilities of power and light which that implies.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 10. - The Thoughts and Aphorismes