Spiritual significance of flowers, Golden eye-grass = Curculigo orchioides, Liliaceae; Alt. Hypoxidaceae

469 — Number of the plant

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 Liliopsida - Monocotyledons

► Subclass Liliidae

► Order Liliales

► Family Liliaceae - Lily family

► Family (Alt) Hypoxidaceae

► Genus Curculigo Gaertn. - Curculigo

Synonyms

(=) Curculigo ensifolia R. Br.

Common names

Golden eye-grass (English)

Orchid palm grass (English)

Talamuli (India (Bengali))

Kali musli (India (Hindi))

Kalimusli (India (Hindi))

Siyah-musli (India (Hindi))

Talamuli (India (Sanskrit))

Talamulika (India (Sanskrit))

Kuratti (India (Tamil))

Nilappanai (India (Tamil))

Nilappanaikkilanku (India (Tamil))

Xian mao (Chinese)

Description

Small golden yellow star-shaped flower borne near the base of the plant on a short scape. A slender tuberous herb with long lanceolate delicately veined leaves.

Thy soul's need of divine light and the spirit's perfection can alone bear thee across the darkness of the many nights through which thou must pass...

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 17. - The Hour of God

Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother

The light is a manifestation of Force, the nature of the force being indicated by the colour of the Light.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3

Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 25. - The Mother

Light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 19. - The Life Divine: Book 2

Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision's limited range.

For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.

God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light. Jnanam chaitanyam jyotir Brahma.

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