Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 75The Plant World · Other Flowers

Book 5. Part Two: The Opening of the Inner Senses · Section Three: Symbols

The red rose is the flower of love and surrender, the white is the purity of psychic love.

* Reddish pink rose = psychic love or surrender. White rose = pure spiritual surrender.

* The java [red hibiscus] is the flower of the Divine Power.

* The [flower named] eternal smile3 means the self-existent joy and gladness of the Spirit.

* I told you saffron meant purification — so if it has any significance, it can only mean that the Mother gave you a power of purification to use.4 3 Hibiscus micranthus, a very small white hibiscus. — Ed. 4 The correspondent wrote that in a dream the Mother put a large packet of saffron in her hand. — Ed.

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