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 Rosidae
► Order Sapindales
► Family Rutaceae - Rue family
► Subfamily Aurantioideae
► Tribe Citreae
► Genus Citrus L. - Citrus
Synonyms
(=) Citrus limonum Risso
Citrus limonum var. vulgaris Risso. & Poit.
Citrus medica subsp. limon L.
Citrus medica subsp. limonum (Risso). Wight et Amott.
Citrus medica subsp. limonum var. vulgaris Engl.
≡ Citrus medica var. limon (basinom) L.
Citrus medica var. limonum Hook. f. | Risso.
Limon vulgaris Mill.
Common names
Lemon (English)
Lemon tree (English)
Citron commun (French)
Citron doux (French)
Citronnier (French)
Citronnier commun (French)
Limonier (French)
Citroen (Danish)
Citroen (Dutch)
Sitruuna (Finnish)
Sauer-Zitrone (German)
Zitrone (German)
Zitronenbaum (German)
Lemoni (Greek)
Limone (Italian)
Limão (Portuguese)
Limão cravo (Portuguese)
Limoeiro azedo (Portuguese)
Лимон (Russian)
Arbol de limón (Spanish)
Limón (Spanish)
Limón agria (Spanish)
Limón amarillo (Spanish)
Limón frances (Spanish)
Limonero (Spanish)
Laymûn (Arabic)
Lemun (Arabic)
Limum (Arabic)
Limoo khagi (Persian)
Limon (Turkish)
Nebu (India (Bengali))
Limbu (India (Gujarati))
Bara nimbuu (India (Hindi))
Bijapura (India (Hindi))
Bijaura (India (Hindi))
Jambira (India (Hindi))
Jamiri nimbu (India (Hindi))
Nimbu (India (Hindi))
Cherunarakam (India (Malayalam))
Gilam (India (Malayalam))
Limbū (India (Marathi))
Bijauri (India (Punjabi))
Galgal (India (Punjabi))
Jambira (India (Sanskrit))
Jambirah (India (Sanskrit))
Elimichcham (India (Tamil))
Elumiccai (India (Tamil))
Elumicchai (India (Tamil))
Elumichai (India (Tamil))
Elumicham (India (Tamil))
Sidalai (India (Tamil))
Nimmapandu (India (Telugu))
Limun (India (Urdu))
Nimbu (India (Urdu))
Kāgati (Nepalese)
Nibuwa (Nepalese)
Sedaran (Sinhalese)
Shauktakera (Burmese)
Limao (Malay)
Manao farang (Thai)
Manao thet (Thai)
Chanh tây (Vietnamese)
Li meng (Chinese)
Ning meng (Chinese)
Yang ning meng (Hong Kong (Chinese))
Remon (Japanese)
Limão-eureka (Brazil (Portuguese))
Limão-gênova (Brazil (Portuguese))
Limão-siciliano (Brazil (Portuguese))
Limão-verdadeiro (Brazil (Portuguese))
Limoeiro (Brazil (Portuguese))
Description
Small highly fragrant white star-shaped flower with fleshy petals, prominent yellow stamens and lavender pink buds; borne in small clusters among the leaves. A small generally thorny tree with strongly scented leaves and acidic edible fruits.
We often find that ethics and religion especially, when they find themselves in a constant conflict with the vital instincts, the dynamic life-power in man, proceed to an attitude of almost complete hostility and seek to damn them in idea and repress them in fact. To the vital instinct for wealth and wellbeing they oppose the ideal of a chill and austere poverty; to the vital instinct for pleasure the ideal not only of self-denial, but of absolute mortification; to the vital instinct for health and ease the ascetic's contempt, disgust and neglect of the body; to the vital instinct for incessant action and creation the ideal of calm and inaction, passivity, contemplation; to the vital instinct for power, expansion, domination, rule, conquest the ideal of humility, self-abasement, submission, meek harmlessness, docility in suffering; to the vital instinct of sex on which depends the continuance of the species, the ideal of an unreproductive chastity and celibacy; to the social and family instinct the anti-social ideal of the ascetic, the monk, the solitary, the world-shunning saint. Commencing with discipline and subordination they proceed to complete mortification, which means when translated the putting to death of the vital instincts, and declare that life itself is an illusion to be shed from the soul or a kingdom of the flesh, the world and the devil, - accepting thus the claim of the unenlightened and undisciplined life itself that it is not, was never meant to be, can never become the kingdom of God, a high manifestation of the Spirit.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 15. - Social and political thought
Ethics deals only with the desire-soul and the active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is confined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities, - it inculcates certain qualities in the act, such as truthfulness, love, charity, compassion, chastity. When it has got this done and assured a base of virtue, the possession of a purified will and blameless habit of action, its work is finished. But the Siddha of the integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of the Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 20-21. - The Synthesis of Yoga