Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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"April 7, 1917 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 trees 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.'"