Page 10 - All India Magazine Oct-2021

Flower Secrets

Love in flowers

Do flowers love?

This is their form of love, this blossoming. Certainly, when one
sees a rose opening to the sun, it is like a need to give its beauty.
Only, for us, it is almost unintelligible, for they do not think about
what they do. A human being always associates with everything
he does this ability to see himself doing it, that is, to think about
himself, think of himself doing it. Man knows that he is doing
something. Animals don't think. It is not at all the same form of
love. And flowers, so to speak, are not conscious: it is a spontane-
ous movement, not a consciousness that is conscious of itself,
not at all. But it is a great Force which acts through all that, the
great universal Consciousness and the great Force of universal
love which makes all things blossom in beauty.
CWM 5: 241

Sense of beauty
Is there a sense of beauty in flowers?

As soon as there is organic life, the vital element comes in, and it
is this vital element which gives to flowers the sense of beauty. It
is not perhaps individualised in the sense we understand it, but it
is a sense of the species and the species always tries to realise it.
I have noticed a first rudiment of the psychic presence and vibra-
tion in vegetable life, and truly this blossoming one calls a flower
is the first manifestation of the psychic presence. The psychic is
individualised only in man, but it was there before him; but it is
not the same kind of individualisation as in man, it is more fluid: it
manifests as force, as consciousness rather than as individuality.

All India Magazine, October 2021
10