17th Teaching – The Flower of Brahman

[setting] Once again Mother finds her sweet Radha sitting alone with tears in her eyes. Mother comes up to her, sits behind her and wraps her arms and legs around her saying,

Mother: Child, what is this sadness in your kind heart today?

Radha: Oh, Mother, some days a great sorrow captures my attention and I seem connected with all the needless suffering of our species. I do not understand, Mother.

Mother: My darling, this sorrow is a gift given to you by Father and I so your faith and perseverance on the path will not waiver. For it is easy enough for a man or a woman to find a way to escape personal, needless suffering, but it is impossible to escape the sorrow of the world. By learning to accept and process such universal suffering personally, you help lighten the suffering of the Godhead.

When this period of necessary suffering for God is done, you let it go as if it never was. Here is a lesson which will help refocus yourself on Brahman. Come lay your head in Mother’s lap and listen.

[setting] Mother blinks and the two of them are in the forest near some Osmanthus bushes.

Mother: Mother says, “Darling, sit up for a moment and see where I have brought you.”

Radha: Oh, Mother. We are in the forest where the Osmanthus bushes do grow. Oh, Mother, is not the scent bliss?

Mother: Yes, Radha. Can you tell from which direction the scent is coming from?

Radha: No, Mother, I cannot tell for the scent seems to be coming from everywhere. I remember that every time you and Father show us your Divine Forms joined in Holy Union, Krishna and I smell a scent like Osmanthus. Why is this, Mother?

Mother: Let me tell you a story and you shall know the answer to your question.

Concealed by high clouds, stands the highest peak of Mt. Meru. A peak known to only the Most Holy of Holy Rishis. As Father has revealed, unseen because of the clouds lies Brahmaloka, a temperate land radiating only Pure Love and Beneficence to the creatures inhabiting the earthly and astral realms. This is the land where the Six Locked Doors of Brahman opened so to allow the First Emanation so to begin Creation. Brahman emanated the Six Eternal Forces.

In this Holy Land, Lord Brahman planted a wondrous Garden. A Garden of Flowers formed from the most precious of jewels and metals. There are Roses formed of gold leaves and ruby red flowers. White Lilies made of silver. For every precious stone there is a wondrous flower. These flowers appear as the precious substances they are, but the leaves and the petals are soft to the touch for they are the very Conduit between the Unfathomable Source and the creatures of the earthly and astral realms over which Brahman sends Life and Conscious Energies.

Deep within the center of the Garden, hidden by a cloak of invisibility, is the most wondrous and precious flower of all – the Brahman Flower. On first sight, as flower bouquets go, it isn’t much to look at. It is not made of precious metals and gemstones, rather, the Brahman Flower looks like its earthly counterpart, the fragrant Tea Olive, or Osmanthus fragrans. The flowers are white-yellow, simple in design and very tiny — you could easily hold a hundred in the palm of your hands. The ever-greenery of its bush is unremarkable. But none of that really matters. This bouquet is not for display, it’s a nosegay, and as soon as you bend your head to sniff, your eyes will be closed in bliss.

The fragrance emitted by an earthly Osmanthus is divine. It smells of warm, ripe apricots, good black tea (maybe a Ceylon, with its floral notes and natural sweetness) and soft leather. It’s a luscious, velvety scent, rich and delicious, but the sunny, citrus-kissed fruit and the tannic tea notes keep things from getting too serious. Osmanthus isn’t a heady narcotic, like jasmine, or a drama queen, like tuberose. It is the scent of happiness.

Once you have smelled and felt the bliss associated with the scent of Osmanthus, you will understand why it is called the Brahman Flower.

While, the particular scents of the other Garden Flowers carry life and conscious energies to the lower worlds, the scent emitted by the Brahman Flower passes into the lower worlds as food for the soul seeds given by Brahman to all self-aware creatures. By conscious work, one can refine ones soul seed so it can capture and retain great quantities of the scent of the Great Soul, blossoming into Atman or Brahman. In other words, dearest love, Thou are That, your little I is one in essence with the One I of Atman.

When Father and I are in our Divine Form, you smell the scent of the Tea Olive because this is the scent of our One Soul, honey. We are Atman in Form and Brahman in Essence.

So when the Great Sorrow comes onto you, do what work which must be done and let go of the Sorrow and breath in the scent of the Brahman Flower.

Let us return, sweetpea, for we must make dinner.