Hibiscus rosa-sinensis - Individual Power

The beauty and mystery of the universe contained in its symmetric magic, each flower also has its unique essence as revealed to us by The Mother. The intense magenta color of this flower, the Hibiscus rosa-sinensis “Viceroy”, is even more intense as it greets the sun and us as we enter A Sunlit Path. It’s the first flower that caught my eye here and hence the first flower I’d like to share with you. It has the quality of “Individual Power—limited in its capacity and action”.

“God is infinite and his manifestation is infinite. The forms of his manifestation too are innumerable. Each form is a symbol of some divine power, Vibhuti, concealed in it and to the seeing eye each finite carries in it its own revelation of the infinite” — Sri Aurobindo

“To realise its own power and to master as well as to know its world is…the increasing impulse of all individual life; that impulse is an essential feature of the growing self-manifestation of the Divine in cosmic existence.” — Sri Aurobindo

If each one of us is a unique revelation of the Divine, is it not our responsibility and joy to come into our individual power and reveal what remains hidden? Let us remember that however limited you or I may be, we are each a unique expression of the Divine; hence, realising the Divine has to begin with realising our own power.