Spiritual significance of flowers, Fuchsia = Fuchsia, Onagraceae

525 — 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 Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Rosidae

► Order Myrtales

► Family Onagraceae - Evening Primrose family

Synonyms

Common names

Fuchsia (English)

Gladiolus callianthus (English)

Lady's eardrops (English)

Fuchsia (French)

Фуксия (Russian)

Description

Very showy small to medium-sized pendulous flower that resembles a lantern or a ballerina's skirt, with four usually recurved and colourful sepals that spread above four tightly overlapping rounded petals and prominent exserted stamens; in white and shades of pink, red and purple, often bicoloured and double; borne singly from the leaf axils or in terminal racemes or panicles. A cool-loving small shrub to small tree.

Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation.

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 3. - Questions and Answers (1929)

Art is a living harmony and beauty that must be expressed in all the movements of existence.

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 3. - Questions and Answers (1929)

If you want art to be the true and highest art, it must be the expression of a divine world brought down into this material world.

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 3. - Questions and Answers (1929)

Divinisation of life means, in fact, a greater art of life; for the present art of life produced by ego and ignorance is something comparatively mean, crude and imperfect ( like the lower forms of art, music and literature which are yet more attractive to the ordinary human mind and vital ) , and it is by a spiritual and psychic opening and refinement that it has to reach its true perfection.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 9. - The Future Poetry

In a sense spirituality is the highest art, the art of life; for it aims at creating a life of beauty pure in line, faultless in rhythm, replete with strength, illumined with light and vibrant with delight.