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 Asteridae
► Order Lamiales
► Family Lamiaceae [= Labiatae] - Mint family
► Family (Alt) Verbenaceae - Verbena family
► Subfamily Teucrioideae
► Genus Clerodendrum L. - Glorybower
Synonyms
Common names
Clerodendron (English)
Orange tower flower (English)
Pagoda flower (English)
Clérodendron (French)
Description
Small reddish orange salverform flower with exserted stamens and five rounded lobes shaded light orange at the edges; borne in large erect rounded terminal panicles with reddish orange stems. A small to medium-sized shrub with large stiff cordate leaves.
To be alone with the Divine is the ... base of the real oneness with all, for it establishes that oneness in its true base, on the Divine, for it is in the Divine that he meets and unites with all and no longer in a precarious interchange of the mental and vital ego.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3
What I am aiming at is not a society like the present rooted in division. What I have in view is a Samgha (community) founded in the spirit and in the image of its oneness.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. A letter to his younger brother Barin. April 7, 1920 // The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 3. - 1962
