Chapter 19Symbols

in it, but I am unable to find out the same. May I know it?

When I picked up the flowers to give you, I felt that several were coming and I willed: “Let it be the number of the states of the being in which the Sincerity (in the consecration to the Divine) will be definitively established.” Four means integrality: the four states of being, mental, psychic, vital, physical.

27 December 1933

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COLOURS Can one tell when the colour yellow indicates the mind and when it indicates light?

Greenish yellow is mental. Orange yellow is the symbol of light.

* The fox on the envelope means cleverness.

8 January 1932

* It is a hare — “prudence”.

9 February 1932

* Mother, what does the deer signify?

Gentleness and swiftness of movement.

* Generally a snake symbolises a movement of falsehood, When something in the nature is in affinity with falsehood, snakes are attracted. The nature of the falsehood is indicated by the nature of the snake and the plane where it appears.

30 August 1932

* Please tell me what the horse means.

The horse signifies the powers of the individual being, which must be controlled (bridled).

1 January 1933

* What is the meaning of the drawing You sent me on the envelope?

It is a lamb, which means “purity”.

4 January 1933

* What is the significance of the picture You sent me?

This boar is the symbol of desires.

* (Significance of the falcon)

Keen sight.

* The snake is not the symbol of power but of energy, and just as there are obscure and perverted energies, so too the snake can be the symbol of unregenerate and anti-divine forces.

29 May 1934

* Does the cow really have a special sanctity or is it merely a tradition based on economic needs?

Mere tradition based on old symbols.

* Mother, what is the meaning of the house in the picture?

I do not remember the picture I sent. A house is generally a place of rest and safety.

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* This little badge was chosen as it is — a single ball hanging from a cord made of countless silk threads — for the following reasons. The ball — the globe — is a symbol of universality, integrality, infinity. One, it becomes the symbol of the Supreme Oneness manifested in all the domains of the being — the multiplicity — represented by the silk cord.

* In the picture which I received today from Thee, I see someone offering with two hands a full-bloomed red lotus, a lotus bud and a garland. The background of the picture is yellow in colour. What do all these signify?

The red lotus is the symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest the full consecration to the Avatar; the yellow background represents the supramental manifestation.

8 November 1933

* What is symbolised by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me?

Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane.

25 January 1934

* Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity, suppleness, the purifying principle. It is the driving force and marks the beginning of organised life.§

* Water corresponds to the vital, air to mind, fire to the psychic, earth to matter and ether to the spirit.

20 August 1955

* The diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light. No hostile force can cross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But the diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human beings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected. Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds.§

* What is the relation between the Supramental Light and the solar light?

The solar light is the symbol of the supramental light.

9 July 1965

* We invoke the solar light, symbol of the Supreme Lord, to give us the Light of Truth.

* value of the languages.

10 April 1966