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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Transformation
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Millingtonia hortensis L. f. (Bignoniaceae)
Akash neem
White
Transformation
Transformation is the change by which all the elements, and all the movements of the being become ready to manifest the supramental Truth.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 15. - Words of the Mother
Do you know the flower I have called "Transformation"? Yes. You know it has four petals; well, these four petals are arranged like a cross: one at the top which represents the transcendent, two on each side: the universal, and one at the bottom: the
individual.
The petal at the top is divided into two.
Exactly, the transcendent is one and two (or dual) at the same time. This flower is almost perfect in its form. This was the original meaning of the cross also, but that was not as perfect as the flower, for it was one, two, and three. It was not so
good - the flower is perfect.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 4. - Questions And Answers (1950-51)
There are different statuses (avastha) of the Divine Consciousness. There are also different statuses of transformation. First is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the last that there can begin the complete transformation of mind, life and body - in my sense of completeness.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
(Mother gives Satprem a flower called "Transformation.")
I give you the right one.
Why the "right one"?
I say that because there is confusion in many people's minds. When, from the standpoint of progress, for instance, I speak of progress, I mean "going from the mental consciousness to a higher consciousness," but people generally understand "to make progress materially or mentally or..." So when they are told of transformation, all kinds of queer things come to their minds.... As for us, when we speak of transformation, we mean the supramental transformation.
That's why.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 9. - 1968
You know that I always keep a Transformation flower here (Mother points to her buttonhole); I keep it the whole morning, and when I take my dress off in the afternoon for a bath, the flower is naturally in a pitiful condition - so I used to throw it away. But one day, S. had sent me roses in a glass of water, it was on my bathroom table; I took the Transformation flower and put it in the water, and when I came back from my bath it was magnificent, far more fresh and strong than when I had received it! I kept it the whole night, kept it the next day, it wasn't budging! It remained just as fresh. Then the next day, I sent him the flower back, in his glass, and when he came to see me in the afternoon, I told him the story. I said, "Did you get the Transformation flower? Here is what happened...." The next day, he wrote me this:
"Does the transformation not demand a very high degree of aspiration, surrender and receptivity?"
I replied:
"The transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But is that not the aspiration of every sincere sadhak?
"'Total' means...
Yes, it was on the following page (because I thought, "This man will wonder why I put 'total and integral' when the two words seem to mean just the same thing"). So I gave him the explanation:
"'Total' means VERTICALLY in all the states of being from the most material to the most subtle. 'Integral' means HORIZONTALLY in all the various and often contradictory parts that make up the outer being (physical, vital and mental)."
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 8. - 1967
(Mother hands Satprem an unusual "transformation" flower.)
Nine petals.... That's the new creation - it's the transformation for the new creation.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 12. - 1971
Here, take it (Mother gives a flower of transformation).
No impatience.
A trustful patience.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 11. - Notes on the Way
Here (Mother gives a flower of Transformation): the right one.
You too.
No impatience. That's the main thing: no impatience.
A trusting patience.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 10. - 1969