flowers
Their Spiritual significance
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Emotional centre
Vibrant and sensitive, it needs to be controlled
Canna X generalis L. H. Bailey (Cannaceae)
Canna
Deep rose pink
Anahata, hridpadma (anāhata, hṛdpadma). Emotional and psychic center, located at the center of chest, 12 petals, golden-pink.
Heart-lotus – emotional centre. The psychic is behind it.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
The physical heart is in the left side, but the heart centre of yoga is in the middle of the chest - the cardiac centre.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
The apex of the psychic and emotional centre (like the apex of all centres) is in the backbone, the base in front in middle of the sternum.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
When the heart is purified, the vital emotions change into psychic feelings or else psychicised vital movements.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1
The third characteristic of consciousness is the emotion of pleasure in existence, primarily in one's own, sympathetically in all existence, the Will to enjoy. This is the most powerful and fundamental of emotions, - so powerful as to persistently outlast all the pain and struggle which the hampered existence of Spirit in Matter brings to the personality. Showing itself physically at first in mere sense-pleasure and the clinging to life, it develops psychically in the emotions of love and joy, and culminates spiritually in the delight of our psychical personality in contact with or entering into the impersonal existence of our real and infinite Self.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Isha Upanishad
To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness of the higher spiritual and supramental planes is one object of this yoga, just as to enlighten it by the power of the higher vital and higher mental elements of the being is the greatest part of human self-development, civilisation and culture.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1