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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Generosity in the physical
Loves abundance and loves to give it
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Impatiens balsamina L. (Balsaminaceae)
Spotted snapweed
Red
Generosity in the physical
When you no longer have this generosity in your movements, you receive much less and this is one of the reasons – one of the chief reasons – why physical progress stops. It is because you become thrifty, you try not to waste... and physical receptivity diminishes a great deal.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 5. - Questions And Answers (1953)
I was holding one of these flowers (Integral Generosity) in my hand when I saw Z, and I explained to him what I meant by "integral generosity." The effect of the ego, I told him, is to shrivel the being. It's the cause of aging, it dries you up - the being shrivels under it like a withering flower. And as I was speaking to him, the experience came; all I remember now is the idea, but the idea is nothing - the experience itself was there.
I know that at a certain moment I was making the distinction between the two states, between the person - the individual, personal being - turning towards the Lord, imploring Him to reveal His Will, and then this experience of becoming - by extending oneself, by opening, by enlarging, by merging into the creation - of BECOMING the Will of the Lord, the Supreme's Will. No longer any need to implore Him, to "know" His Will and receive it like something foreign to you - you become that Will.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 2. - 1961
When I speak of the physical consciousness, I mean the physical mind and the physical vital as well as the body consciousness proper.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 24. - Letters on Yoga.-P.4
In my view the body as well as the mind and life has to be spiritualised or, one may say, divinised so as to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation of the Divine. It has its part in the Divine Lila, even, according to the Vaishnava Sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not a means - that would be a serious error which would not be admissible. In any case, my speculations about an extreme form of divinisation are something in a far distance and are no part of the preoccupations of the spiritual life in the near future.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 26. - On Himself