Hedychium

THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FLOWERS

3 Sachchidananda
Strong and pure,

it stands erect in its creative power.
Hedychium. White

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Ginger lily, Garland lily. Small to medium-sized highly fragrant waxy flower with a long narrow corolla tube and three petal-like lobes, the upper larger and deeply split; in white and shades of orange, red, yellow and pink; borne in dense terminal spikes from a tight cluster of sturdy green bracts. A robust rhizomatous perennial with reed like leafy stems.

"God is Sachchidananda। He manifests Himself as infinite existence of which the essentiality is consciousness, of which again the essentiality is bliss, is self-delight."
SRI AUROBINDO

"That which has thrown itself out into forms is a triune Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, Sachchidananda, whose consciousness is in its nature a creative or rather a self-expressive Force capable of infinite variation in phenomenon and form of its self-conscious being and endlessly enjoying the delight of that variation. It follows that all things that exist are what they are as terms of that existence, terms of that conscious force, terms of that delight of being."
SRI AUROBINDO

Sacred Lotus - Nelumbo nucifera. Pinkish red

THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FLOWERS

2 Avatar —
The Supreme manifest on earth in a body
The red lotus is Sri Aurobindo's flower.
Nelumbo nucifera. Pinkish red

Sacred lotus, East Indian lotusVery large fragrant chalice-shaped pink flower with several rows of loosely arranged cupped translucent petals surrounding a unique centre of numerous golden stamens that encircle a raised yellow disc; borne singly on sturdy stems high above the water. A vigorous aquatic rhizomatous plant with large, concave orbicular leaves that repel water.

AVATAR
An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth.
THE MOTHER

The word Avatara means a descent; it is a coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.
SRI AUROBINDO

The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality. He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all this unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine.
SRI AUROBINDO

Sacred lotus - Nelumbo nucifera 'Alba'. White

THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FLOWERS

(1) Aditi - the Divine Consciousness
Pure, immaculate, gloriously powerful.

Nelumbo nucifera 'Alba'. White

Sacred lotus, East Indian lotus. Very large fragrant chalice-shaped white flower with several rows of loosely arranged cupped translucent petals surrounding a unique centre of numerous golden stamens that encircle a raised yellow disc; borne singly on sturdy stems high above the water. A vigorous aquatic rhizomatous plant with large, concave orbicular leaves that repel water.

"She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.

The luminous heart of the unknown is she,

A power of silence in the depths of God;

She is the force the inevitable Word,

The magnet of our difficult ascent,

The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,

The light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,

The joy that beckons from the impossible,

The might of all that never yet came down."

from SAVITRI by SRI AUROBINDO