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
The two appear yesterday to define the word 'purity' in a fragrant language.
[Perfect Radiating Purity
Nothing escapes its action.
Gardenia augusta [Jasminoides]
Jasmine, Cape jessamine
Medium to large highly fragrant double white salverform flower with
curling irregularly shaped petal-like lobes that radiate horizontally
from the sturdy corolla tube; borne singly among the leaves. A medium
to large shrub with attractive glossy foliage.---The Mother]
I am to seek as you have gone into hiding...
If you were here always without veil you would remain unattainable for me!
...
The water goes to far above and hides in clouds...only to return in
shower of rain to meet the thirst of the earth below..
[The above lines are a part of a song of Tagore. I have tried to
translate it from Bengali but my knowledge of English makes a poor
show of those beautiful lines!]
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.]"
Golden Lantana.
Taken from my roof garden today.
[Spiritual significance as per the Mother for this golden variety is
light in the cells]
I can give away all my days for a night exclusively of my own!
I am a bit tired today. So I have not sought for anything for my
Flickr page. But while taking a stroll I found it sprouting from the
cemented corner of the passage for entering the house.
It is a little banyan tree. This is also our national tree.
It represents a die-hard ability to exist. We are thousands of years old!
