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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Tenderness for the Divine
Sweetness, a charming hue, a delicate form, a smile that gladdens
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Rosa chinensis Jacq. (Rosaceae)
Chinese rose
Small single very light pink flower that fades to white; borne in clusters of two or three. A small to medium-sized shrub.
Tenderness for the Divine
Won't you at least take a flower?
I wanted to take this little rose ('Tenderness for the Divine'), for I consider it to be the manifestation nearest to divine Love. It's disinterested, spontaneous, intimate.
This is what I wanted to take with me to my super-heaven, as the most precious thing in the human heart.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 1. - 1951-1960
(Mother holds out a small rose to Satprem:)
I have a lovely rose for you. Do you know what it is?
No, Mother.
I thought as much!
What is it?
It's true tenderness: that of the Divine. People don't know, they always think of something very human. But it's not human... (Mother closes her eyes and remains standing in concentration) It's extremely luminous, rose-colored, slightly golden... always smiling.... It's a very particular sensation. (After a long silence) Everything is like a beautiful pink rose - a beautiful rose. It's better than that, much better... (how can I put it?). No difficulties can exist - they don't exist (when one is in that Tenderness). It's the side of life ("of life," I mean of the manifestation) which is all beauty, smile, peace and light - spontaneously, effortlessly, with an impossibility for anything else to exist. It's very particular. And it's very high up, very high up.... Yet, now and then I see a drop of it here. The first time I saw it... (Mother wobbles on her feet). I must sit down because I'm going away!
(Mother sits down and resumes) It can only be realized in a world devoid of egoism. Which means that when the whole action of individualization is over and there is no more need for the element of egoism, then it will be possible for "that" to be fully manifested.
We could call it the "sweetness of Love," but the word "sweet" is a little wishy-washy. It's much better than sweet. It's something without difficulties: no difficulties happen, it doesn't know difficulties, it ignores them entirely - there are no difficulties, they don't exist. So, when it manifests, there are no difficulties. Then, naturally, it can't stay here because... because there are still difficulties!
Anyway...
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 7. - 1966
(Mother gives Satprem a rose.) This is the Tenderness of the Divine for... for himself! The tenderness He has for his creation. "Creation"... I don't like that word, as if it all were created from nothing! It is He himself, creating with all his tenderness. Some of these roses get quite big; they're so lovely!
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 2. - 1961