"Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears
Rejected the undying rapture’s boon:
Offered to the daughter of infinity
Her passion-flower of love and doom she gave."
Sri Aurobindo writes that Earth's grain compared to a wood grain (lines marking the rise of sap or life-blood of a tree over a long period) needs sap of pleasure and tears or the duality of extreme passions to nourish itself. This is how the earth's life kingdoms have evolved over a long period of time as taught by Blavatsky and to quote from one of her (masters) letter:
"Earth is the battle ground of moral no less than of physical forces; and the boisterousness of animal passions under the stimulus of the rude energies of the lower group of etheric agents, always tends to quench spirituality. What else could one expect of men so nearly related to the lower kingdom from which they evolved? True also, our numbers are just now diminishing but this is because, as I have said, we are of the human race, subject to its cyclic impulse and powerless to turn that back upon itself."- First Letter of KH to A.O.Hume.
"The Third Race was pre‐eminently the bright shadow, at first, of the gods, whom tradition exiles on Earth after the allegorical war in Heaven; which became still more allegorical on Earth, for it was the war between spirit and matter. This war will last till the inner and divine man adjusts his outer terrestrial self to his own spiritual nature. Till then the dark and fierce passions of the former will be at eternal feud with his master, the Divine Man. But the animal will be tamed one day, because its nature will be changed, and harmony will reign once more between the two as before the ʺFall,ʺ when even mortal man was created by the Elements and was not born." - The Secret Doctrine Volume 2.
Therefore the Earth's nature says 'no' to the blessing of undying rapture of eternal bliss which Savitri offers. Instead it gives back to the daughter of infinity, Savitri the passionate polar opposite experiences of love and suffering, doom and death. Huta paints the passion-flowers in two contrasting shades denoting the duality being offered to her.
From Narad's(Richard Eggenberger, a disciple of The Mother) blog:
The Passion flower is replete with symbolical stories from both the East and the West.
In Christian symbolism the tendrils are likened to the whips that scourged Christ, the numerous radial filaments representing the Crown of Thorns, the three stigmas, the three nails and the five anthers below, the five wounds.
In India the blue passion flower is called Krishnakamala in Karnataka and Maharashtra, while in Uttar Pradesh and generally north it is colloquially called "Paanch Paandav". The structure of the flower with its five anthers represents the five Pandavas, with Krishna at the centre, the numerous filaments being the opposing hundred at the edges. The colour blue is associated with Krishna's aura.
Images : Painting no 17, Illustrations of Wood grain and Passion flower
Passiflora L. Incarnata Xcincinnata 'Incense', Passifloraceae. Passion flower:
Spiritual Significance: Silence, The ideal condition for progress. Rich, profound, multiple.
- The Mother.
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