at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Caryophyllidae
► Order Caryophyllales
► Family Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family
► Family (Alt) Chenopodiaceae
► Genus Celosia L. - Cock's comb
Synonyms
Celosia cristata L. [≡ Celosia argentea var. cristata]
Celosia plumosa (Voss) Burv. [≡ Celosia argentea var. plumosa]
Common names
Cockscomb (English)
Common cockscomb (English)
Feather cockscomb (English)
Feathered amaranth (English)
Red fox (English)
Red-spinach (English)
silver cockscomb (English)
Woolflower (English)
Amarante (French)
Amarante à plume (French)
Célosie (French)
Célosie à panache (French)
Silber-Brandschopf (German)
Mayurasikha (India (Sanskrit))
Makili-k-kira (India (Tamil))
Pannai keerai (India (Tamil))
Qing xiang (Chinese)
Description
Long erect branching spikes of tiny flowers that form soft feathery plumes. A showy floriferous garden annual.
For a certain state of consciousness there is not a single word, not a gesture, not an action which does not express a deeper or higher reality, more lasting, more essential, more true; and once one has seen and felt that, everything takes on a meaning, and one sees more clearly how things ought to be organised, arranged, so that a deeper truth may express itself still better than it does at present.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 8. - Questions And Answers (1956)
The truest expression comes out of an absolute inner silence.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother
In all things that strive towards a new, ever higher and completer expression, Thou art present.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 1.- Prayers And Meditations
