In this investiture of fleshly life A soul that is a spark of God survives . And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine. Savitri, Book 11, Canto V
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

fragrant evening with jasmine

Summer has just stepped in here in India. But it is not a shy and
hesitating tiptoe; it makes an arrogant long strides. The summer is
unrelenting and unwanted in India.
But exactly at this time the white fragrant flowers like this Jasmine
bloom in the darkness of the night.

"[Purity
True purity has a lovely fragrance.

Jasminum
Jasmine, Jessamine
All varieties of small single white salverform flowers with a slender
tube and four to nine pointed or rounded lobes; the flowers are
typically highly fragrant; borne in terminal or axillary cymes. Shrubs
or vines.]"