Nyctanthes arbortristis, Night jasmine, Parijata

Aspiration

Innumerable and obstinate, repeating itself untiringly

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1 http://www.panmai.com/GardenSong/Flower_08.htm 2 http://www.rspg.org/homklindokmai/hom-5.htm 3 http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~vam/treeimages/parijatak.jpg 4 Photo from the original book

 

    Well, today there is something special. And these two flowers are just fine: Concentration in the Aspiration... But do you know how to aspire? Do you aspire a little?
    Do you know where the aspiration comes from?

Yes, Mother, from the heart and from the psychic.

    Yes, my little one, rather from the psychic, the true aspiration comes from there; but one first starts from the heart.
    As long as you are not in contact with it, in the beginning you can aspire from the mind, saying: Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, and asking precisely what you want, as, for example, Peace, or let Peace be established within me. Then you silently concentrate and you remain open. You will see that you will be flooded with Peace.
    Then you concentrate in the heart, and you aspire to come into contact with the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification and go there, very deeply, and remain silent and open like this (Mother opens Her hands like a flower above Her head).
    Once there - but you must sincerely make a great effort to find it, - you are in contact with the central being; everything else becomes silent, and one has the feeling that the Divine is doing everything for oneself. An immutable joy and peace and freedom then seize you. And nothing in the world is interesting any more, but the aspiration that unites with the Divine.