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Michelia champaca, Golden Champa, Champak
Supramentalized psychological perfection
A psychological perfection aspiring to be divinised
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Michelia champaca "Alba"
Divine smile
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     Have you noticed this flower? It has twelve petals in three rows of four. We have called it "Supramental Psychological Perfection".
     I had never noticed that it has three rows: a small row like this, another one a little larger and a third one larger still. They are in gradation of four: four petals, four petals, four petals.
     Well, if one indeed wants to see in the forms of Nature a symbolic expression, one can see a centre which is the supreme Truth. and a triple manifestation - because four indicates manifestation - in three superimposed worlds: the outermost - these are the largest petals, the lightest in colour - that is a physical world, then a vital world and a mental world, and then at the centre, the supramental Truth.