Blossom like a flower

To lead the Divine Life does not depend on any exterior activity or circumstances. Whatever you do from the highest work to the most ordinary, you can lead the Divine Life if you are in the true consciousness and the right attitude.

THE MOTHER

If, in the presence of circumstances that are about to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible - that is, if you put your consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can happen to you. ... I even go so far as to assert that in each one's zone of immediate influence, the right attitude not only has the power to turn every circumstance to advantage but can change the very circumstance itself.

THE MOTHER

Devotional attitude
Modest and self-effacing, it yields remarkable fruit.

Aegle marmelos
Bael tree, Bengal quince
Small greenish white star-shaped flower with four or five fleshy recurved petals and a centre filled with numerous short brownish white anthers; borne in axillary panicles. The significance also includes the trifoliate leaf and a large hard-shelled edible fruit. Small trees with sharp needlelike thorns.


Right Attitude
Simple and open, without complications.

Clerodendrum speciosissimum
Small bright orange one-sided salverform flower with five irregular lobes spread fanlike above the exserted stamens; borne in short loose terminal panicles with secondary stems arising in opposite pairs from the four-sided main stem. An erect shrub with heavily pubescent leaves.


Aspiration for the Right Attitude
Energetic, willing, determined.

Clerodendrum Xspeciosum
Java glory bean
Small purplish red salver form flower with long exserted bright red stamens and a limb divided into five irregular lobes that protrude from the end of a green bell-shaped calyx; borne in axillary cymes. A light twining shrub.


Also
Clerodendrum thomsoniae
Bag flower, Bleeding heart vine
Small deep red salver form flower with long exserted stamens and a limb divided into five irregular lobes that protrude from the end of a milk white bell-shaped calyx; borne in axillary cymes. A light twining shrub.


Right Attitude Established
There is a moment when the right attitude comes spontaneously and without effort.

Clerodendrum splendens
Small red orange salverform flower with exserted stamens and five rounded petal-like lobes, the upper three angled obliquely back from the thin corolla tube; borne in dense cymes. A twining shrub with dense foliage.