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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Supramentalised psychological perfection
A psychological perfection aspiring to be divinised
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Michelia champaca L. (Magnoliaceae)
Michelia
Cream yellow to golden orange
Supramentalised psychological perfection
Have you noticed this flower?
It has twelve petals in three rows of four.
We have called it "Supramental psychological perfection".
I had never noticed that it had three rows: a small row like this, another one a little larger and a third one larger still. They are in gradations of four: four petals, four petals, four petals.
Well, if one indeed wants to see in the forms of Nature a symbolic expression, one can see a centre which is the supreme Truth, and a triple manifestation - because four indicates manifestation - in three superimposed worlds: the outermost - these are the largest petals, the lightest in colour - that is a physical world, then a vital world and a mental world, and then at the centre, the supramental Truth.
And you can discover all kinds of other analogies.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)
(Mother gives Satprem a Champak flower.)
Do you know what it is?... It's the "divine psychological perfection." So someone asked me, "What's divine psychological perfection?" - A smile in any circumstance...
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 10. - 1969
the supramental by its very definition is the Truth-Consciousness, Truth in possession of itself and fulfilling itself by its own power.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 16. - The Supramental Manifestation