object:1917_04_07p
book class:Prayers And Meditations
author class:The Mother
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
1917 Sat 7 April
April 7, 1917
Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance.
A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it with all cherry-blossoms, and, as I descended deeper in the consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the cherry-tree itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its innumerable branches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly this sentence:
Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of the cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this flower-prayer to heaven.
When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the blood of the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable peace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body of a tree? In truth, there is none: the consciousness which animates them is identically the same.
Then the cherry-tree whispered in my ear:
It is in the cherry-blossom that lies the remedy for the disorders of the spring.
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April 1, 1917
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