The Mother's symbol and the Petals

The Mother's symbol and the Petals

 

The meditation rooms inside the twelve stone-clad 'petals' surrounding the Matrimandir carry the names and colours of the 'petals' in the Mother's symbol: These are: 

• Sincerity
• Humility
• Gratitude
• Perseverance
• Aspiration
• Receptivity
• Progress
• Courage
• Goodness
• Generosity
• Equality
• Peace

 "The first eight concern the attitude towards the Divine, and the last four towards humanity." (Mother's symbol)

Meaning of colours

 

In March 1934, Sri Aurobindo indicated through the (above placed) colour chart of the twelve petals pertaining to the symbol:  Center and four powers, white;

  

The twelve all different colors in three groups: top group red, passing to orange towards yellow; next group, yellow passing through green towards blue; and third group, blue passing through violet towards red.

 

If white is not convenient, the center may be gold (powder). 

 

According to Sri Aurobindo the colours mentioned generally have the following significances, though the exact meaning may vary "with the field, the combinations, the character and shades of the color, the play of forces": red- physical , yellow- thinking mind,  blue- higher mind, orange- supramental in the physical, violet
- divine compassion or grace,  gold- divine Truth, green- life, white- the light of the Mother, or the Divine Consciousness

 

Colours of meditation rooms

 

The above mentioned names and colours have been integrated into the sequence of the meditation rooms which are being completed inside each of the twelve petals surrounding the structure in the following order: Sincerity - light blue

 

Peace - deep blue

 

Equality - blue violet

 

Generosity - pure violet

 

Goodness - reddish violet

 

Courage - red

 

Progress - orange red

 

Receptivity - orange

 

Aspiration - orange yellow

 

Perseverance - pale yellow

 

Gratitude - pale green

 

Humility - deep green