Flower of the Month

Flower of the Month

Spiritual Significance given by the Mother:

Divine Sacrifice

The Mother’s comment:

Is it not a supreme sacrifice for the Divine to renounce the beatitude of His Unity in order to create the painful multiplicity of the world?

A quote by Sri Aurobindo:

The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising principle, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. (CWSA, Vol. 23, The Synthesis of Yoga)

Botanical name: Punica granatum L., Punicaceae. Pomegranate.

Physical Description: Small single brilliant orange flower with six rounded crinkled petals and a centre composed of numerous cream yellow anthers, held in a thick waxy orange six-pointed calyx that covers the base of the flower.