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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
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Call of the Divine Grace
Not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen.
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Operculina turpethum (L.) Silva Manso (Convolvulaceae)
St. Thomas lidpod
Seed capsules - light brown
Grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flow of its being.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3
No matter how great your faith and trust in the divine Grace, no matter how great your capacity to see it at work in all circumstances, at every moment, at every point in life, you will never succeed in understanding the marvellous immensity of Its Action, and the precision, the exactitude with which this Action is accomplished; you will never be able to grasp to what extent the Grace does everything, is behind everything, organises everything, conducts everything, so that the march forward to the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total and harmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the world.
As soon as you are in contact with It, there is not a second in time, not a point in space, which does not show you dazzlingly this perpetual work of the Grace, this constant intervention of the Grace.
And once you have seen this, you feel you are never equal to it, for you should never forget it, never have any fears, any anguish, any regrets, any recoils... or even suffering. If one were in union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)
The Grace is infinite for him who sincerely trusts the Grace.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear ? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way because it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother
(Mother hands Satprem a flower called "Grace", then a second "Grace".)
Would you like a second Grace?... There's never too much of it!
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 7. - 1966
Here (Mother hands Satprem a flower called "Grace"). We must hold tight to it, like that, you know, with both hands, close our eyes when the going is very rough and wait till it's over.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 6. - 1965
(Mother gives Satprem flowers)
You don't understand the Grace?... You'll see, one day you will understand it.
It's not that I understand it, but I mean that "one" doesn't understand it.
"One"!... (Mother laughs) Mon petit, I am going to be very crude: "one" doesn't care a hoot!
I mean the grace of your presence here.
Oho! (Mother laughs) Oh, if that's what you mean, "one" doesn't care two hoots!
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 7. - 1966