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flowers
Their Spiritual significance
Photo Collection
Prosperity
Stays consistently only with him who offers it to the Divine.
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Couroupita guianensis Aubl. (Lecythidaceae)
Cannonball tree
Light to deep red
Prosperity
Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical things in an incredibly short time, loose disorder, misuse of service and materials due either to vital grasping or to tamasic inertia are baneful to prosperity and tend to drive away or discourage the Wealth-Power. These things have long been rampant in the society and, if that continues, an increase in our means might well mean a proportionate increase in the wastage and disorder and neutral-ise the material advantage. This must be remedied if there is to be any sound progress.
Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material are a very important part of it - and even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. Mastery of the material does not mean having plenty and profusely throwing it out or spoiling it as fast as it comes or faster. Mastery implies in it the right and careful utilisation of things and also a self-control in their use.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3