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==Flame ==

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The Heavens of <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the Ideal - CWSA heavens- Savitri of- I the- The Incarnate Wordideal#p15</ref>And the Flame is a flame not of effective thought, but of invincible and inviolable Power. … This may mean that the force of this flame of the divine Will in the sacrificial thought and action overcomes every other hostile force or, more simply and generally, it dominates all surrounding powers and makes the sacrifice master of a movement which nothing can resist, degrade or violate.RV VI<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/16/rv-vi-dot-1.-1-4 - CWSA - Hymns to the Mystic Fire - The Incarnate Word#p25</ref><center>~</center>

And the two can go together. And when one succeeds in having the two together, one can have them constantly, whatever one may be doing. Only there may be a slight, very slight displacement of consciousness, almost imperceptible, which becomes aware of the flame first and then of the vase of receptivity—of what seeks to be filled and the flame that rises to call down what must fill the vase—a very slight pendular movement and so close that it gives the impression that one has the two at the same time. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21 April 1954 - CWM april- Questions and Answers (1954) - The Incarnate Word#p26,p27</ref><center>~</center>Aspiration is the only remedy—an aspiration that rises constantly like a clear flame burning up all the impurities of the being. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/4 November 1964 - CWM november- Some Answers from the Mother - The Incarnate Word1964#p4</ref><center>~</center>

Satyavan - CWSA - Savitri - II - The Incarnate Word<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/satyavan#p28</ref><center>~</center>...to be constantly the true flame that burns like an offering. That intense joy of existing only by the Divine and for the Divine and feeling that without Him nothing exists, that life has no longer any meaning, nothing has any purpose, nothing has any value, nothing has any interest, unless it is this call, this aspiration, this opening to the supreme Truth, to all that we call the Divine (because you must use some word or other), the only reason for the existence of the universe. Remove that and everything disappears. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25 March 1953 - CWM march- Questions and Answers (1953) - The Incarnate Word#p15</ref>

==Column of Light  There was no longer any body, no longer any sensation; only a column of light was there, rising from where the base of the body normally is to where usually is the head, to form there a disk of light like that of the moon; then from there the column continued to rise very far above the head, opening out into an immense sun, dazzling and multicoloured, whence a rain of golden light fell covering all the earth. July 21, 1914 - CWM - Prayers and Meditations - The Incarnate Word==

Then it gradually became conscious of itself, conscious of BEING this column of Light. December <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/december-23, 1960 - AGENDA - Mother's Agenda — 1951-1960 - The Incarnate Word#p6,p7</ref>

   Circle  In the creation there is a progressive, a greater and greater materialisation. But we could take another image (I am taking an approximate image): the universe is a circle or rather a sphere (but for the convenience of explanation, let us take a circle). There is a progressive descent from the most subtle to the most material. But the most material happens to touch the point of origin of the most subtle. Then, if you understand the image, instead of going all the way round to change matter, it is much more easy to do the thing directly, for the two extremities meet—the extremely subtle and the extremely material touch, since it is a sphere. Hence, instead of doing all that (Mother draws a circle), it is much better to do this (Mother touches the extreme material end of the circle). In fact, psychologically it is that. The rest will follow quite naturally. If that is done (Mother touches the same extreme material end), all the rest will get settled as a matter of course. And it is not even like this! It is precisely for the convenience of work that all has been concentrated or concretised at one point so that instead of having to spread oneself out in the infinite to change things, one can work just on the point that serves as the symbol of the whole universe. And from the occult standpoint, earth (which is nothing from the astronomical standpoint; in the immensity of the astronomical skies, earth is a thing absolutely without interest and without importance), but from the occult and spiritual point of view, earth is the concentrated symbol of the universe. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23 September 1953 - CWM september- Questions and Answers (1953) - The Incarnate Word#p14</ref><center>~</center>

And shut the world into himself and her. Satyavan <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/satyavan-and Savitri - CWSA - Savitri - II - The Incarnate Wordsavitri#p92</ref>

Bud Why he speaks about the bud and the flower?I am asking this because the bud opens into a flower without any effort, but we have to make an effort, haven’t we?He says that this happens when one is ready; it is precisely to make you think “but the bud opens without effort”; so, when the nature is ready, the same thing happens as with the bud.“Effort”, I don’t know what we call effort, it is not certain whether the plant makes an effort or not. And in any case, it has an aspiration; plants grow because they aspire for the light, for the sun, for open air.And it’s a kind of petition. If one goes into a wood, for instance, into a park where there are many different plants, one can observe very clearly that there is a sort of petition among plants to pass each other and reach the light and open air above. It is indeed quite wonderful to see.Now, Sri Aurobindo means that when one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it’s no longer an effort, it’s an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared and the moment has e, then the bud opens. 18 January 1956 - CWM - Questions and Answers (1956) - The Incarnate Word  ==Flower ==

Red flowers would ordinarily indicate an opening of the consciousness either in the physical or some part of the vital according to the shade. The Plant World <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the- CWSA plant- Letters on Yoga - III - The Incarnate Wordworld</ref>

 ===Lotus ===

It [the blue lotus] can be taken as the (Avatar) incarnation on the mental plane. The Plant World <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the- CWSA plant- Letters on Yoga world</ref> ===Bud=== Why he speaks about the bud and the flower?I am asking this because the bud opens into a flower without any effort, but we have to make an effort, haven’t we?He says that this happens when one is ready; it is precisely to make you think “but the bud opens without effort”; so, when the nature is ready, the same thing happens as with the bud. “Effort”, I don’t know what we call effort, it is not certain whether the plant makes an effort or not. And in any case, it has an aspiration; plants grow because they aspire for the light, for the sun, for open air.And it’s a kind of petition. If one goes into a wood, for instance, into a park where there are many different plants, one can observe very clearly that there is a sort of petition among plants to pass each other and reach the light and open air above. It is indeed quite wonderful to see. Now, Sri Aurobindo means that when one is well prepared and the nature is ready, then the last movement is like a spontaneous blossoming—it’s no longer an effort, it’s an answer. It is a truly divine action in the being: one is prepared and the moment has e, then the bud opens. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18- III january- The Incarnate Word1956</ref>

==Water ==  

Normally, the ocean of higher consciousness is above the head (mind) and all below is that of the lower consciousness. Your seeing of the two oceans rather means that in the descent the influence of the higher consciousness reaches down to the heart (emotional being with the psychic behind it), but does not yet reach below in the lower vital and physical—but it is dissolving the knot in the heart centre which prevents the descent into the lower vital and physical centres. The joy in the śānta svarūpa is indeed a sign of the release of the heart centre. But the phrase in the Upanishads refers more particularly to the breaking of the knots of desire, attachment, sanskara, ego in the heart, which stand in the way of spiritual liberation and ascension—not to the knot which prevents the descent. Water <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/water-and Bodies of Water - CWSA bodies- Letters on Yoga of- III - The Incarnate Wordwater</ref><center>~</center>..water always represents the vital. When everything is harmonious with the water, it means the vital is harmonious. June <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/june-2, 1962 - AGENDA - Mother's Agenda — 1962 - The Incarnate Word</ref> ==Sun ==

The red sun is a symbol of the true, illumined physical consciousness which is to replace the obscure and ignorant physical consciousness in which men now live. Red is the colour of the physical; the red diamond is the Mother’s consciousness in the physical. Sun, Moon, Star, Fire <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun- CWSA moon- Letters on Yoga star- III - The Incarnate Wordfire<ref>Moon

The moon indicates different things according to circumstances—most often spiritual consciousness in the mind. Sun, Moon, Star, Fire - CWSA <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun- Letters on Yoga moon- III star- The Incarnate Word Handfire</Folded hands  The Mother‘s hand was the symbol of her presence and help which will draw you up and lead you… Symbols and Symbolic Visions - CWSA - Letters on Yoga - III - The Incarnate Wordref>

...instead of lighting a candle and kneeling before it with folded ==Hand/Folded hands, light a flame in your heart and have a great aspiration for ‘something more beautiful, truer, nobler, better than anything I know; I ask that tomorrow I begin knowing all those things and begin doing all that I cannot do—and every day a little more.’ September 11, 1968 - AGENDA - Mother's Agenda — 1968 - The Incarnate Word==

A light appeared still and imperishable. The World<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-Soul world- CWSA - Savitri - I - The Incarnate Wordsoul</ref>