Aspiration in Plants

The Mother

Have you never watched a forest with all its countless trees

and plants simply struggling to catch the light — twisting and

trying in a hundred possible ways just to be in the sun? That is

precisely the feeling of aspiration in the physical — the urge, the

movement, the push towards the light. Plants have more of it

in their physical being than men. Their whole life is a worship

of light. Light is of course the material symbol of the Divine,

and the sun represents, under material conditions, the Supreme

Consciousness. The plants have felt it quite distinctly in their

own simple, blind way. Their aspiration is intense, if you know

how to become aware of it. On the plane of Matter they are the

most open to my influence — I can transmit a state of consciousness

more easily to a flower than to a man: it is very receptive,

though it does not know how to formulate its experience to itself

because it lacks a mind. But the pure psychic consciousness is

instinctive to it. When, therefore, you offer flowers to me their

condition is almost always an index to yours. There are persons

who never succeed in bringing a fresh flower to me — even if the

flower is fresh it becomes limp in their hands. Others, however,

always bring fresh flowers and even revitalise drooping ones. If

your aspiration is strong your flower-offerings will be fresh. And

if you are receptive you will be also very easily able to absorb

the message I put in the flowers I give you. When I give them,

I give you states of consciousness; the flowers are the mediums

and it all depends on your receptivity whether they are effective

or not.