FLOWERS
- THEIR SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE

Punica; Pomegranate Flowers
Divine Love
double red flowers

A flower which is said to bloom even in the desert

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An old Chaldean Legend
____Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assilants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude in order to be able to accomplish its work, and being pursued, it ran away. Suddenly, in the vast desert land there appeared a small pomegranate bush. The saviour crept in under the low branches, to leave its body in peace; and immediately the bush spread out miraculously, it grew higher, larger, became deep and thick, so that when the pursuers passed by, they did not even suspect that the One whom they were chasing was hidden there, and they went their way.
____While drop by drop the sacred blood fell, fertilising the soil, the bush was covered with marvellous flowers, scarlet, large, crowded with petals... innumerable drops of blood.
____These are the flowers which express and contain for us the Divine's Love.
 
____Sweet Mother, has that Chaldean legend which you have written any relation with Kali Puja?
 
____Yes, my child, because on Kali Puja day I always distribute the flowers of "Divine's Love"; for Kali is the most loving of all the aspects of the Mahashakti; here is the most active and most powerful Love. And that is why every year I distribute the petals of "Divine's Love" on Kali's Day. And so naturally this explanation of why these flowers were chosen to express the Divine's Love - it is a sufficient explanation.
Unmanifested Divine Love
double white flowers
 
Divine Sacrifice
red flowers with single-layered petals
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Punica; Pomegranate Fruits
Divine Love spreading over the world 22
1 - Photo from book "Flowers - ther spiritual significance"
2 - Photos from Flowerbase Glasshouse Business Networks BV (http://www.flowerweb.nl/flowerbase/)
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- Photo by Gerald D. Carr, University of Hawaii at Manoa http://www.botany/hawaii.edu/
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