Chapter 70Meeting the Mother · Avoiding Pranam

It is meant to help the realisation of the thing the flower stands for.

28 April 1933

* When giving the Bhakti flower, it is the power of Bhakti, the possibility of it that Mother offers to you — if you can open yourself and receive it.

13 June 1933

* When the Mother gives us flowers, are we to aspire for the things they stand for or does she give these things with the flowers?

There is no fixed rule — sometimes it is the one, sometimes the other. But even when the thing is given, it is given in power — it has to be realised by the sadhak in consciousness and for that

17 November 1933

* Today the Mother gave me a “Vital purity” flower, but my vital does not like this flower because it lowers the vital in the opinion of people. “Other people get flowers with good significances, I get only this kind of flower” — unable to repel this suggestion, my vital got roused and I suffered.

“Vital purity” is also a flower of good significance expressing a very high thing. When the Mother gives a flower like that, she gives the Force along with it. But you must receive the force, not think about people’s opinion of you or your prestige with them which is a thing not worth a thought.

22 November 1933

* Today the Mother gave me the flower Progress. I felt she was telling me that I am just sitting and I ought to move forward. What should I understand by it?

When the Mother gives a flower, she gives the power of the thing it means — if the sadhak is ready or willing to receive it, he can do so.

17 March 1934

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