Spiritual significance of flowers, Shoeblackplant = Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Malvaceae

596 — 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 Dilleniidae

► Order Malvales

► Family Malvaceae - Mallow family

► Subfamily Malvoideae

► Tribe Hibisceae

► Genus Hibiscus L. - Rosemallow

Synonyms

Common names

China-rose (English)

Chinese hibiscus (English)

Chinese rose (English)

Confederate rose mallow (English)

Cotton rose (English)

Hawaiian hibiscus (English)

Hibiscus (English)

Japanese rose (English)

Java (English)

Red hibiscus (English)

Rose-of-China (English)

Shoe black (English)

Shoe flower (English)

Shoeblackplant (English)

Tropical hibiscus (English)

Hibiscus de Chine (French)

Hibiscus rose de Chine (French)

Rose de Chine (French)

Kinesisk rose (Danish)

Chinese roos (Dutch)

Chinesischer Roseneibisch (German)

Rosa della Cina (Italian)

Ketmia róza-chinska (Polish)

Hibisco (Portuguese)

Rosa-da-China (Portuguese)

Гибискус (Russian)

Clavel japonés (Spanish)

Hibiscus de los jardines (Spanish)

Rosa de China (Spanish)

Gurhal (India (Hindi))

Jasum (India (Hindi))

Java (India (Hindi))

Japa (India (Sanskrit))

Japa pushpam (India (Sanskrit))

Japapushpam (India (Sanskrit))

Cembarutti (India (Tamil))

Cemparattai (India (Tamil))

Sembaruthi (India (Tamil))

Semparuthi (India (Tamil))

Baarhmaase phuul (Nepalese)

Gudahal (Nepalese)

Japa puspii (Nepalese)

Japaa kusum (Nepalese)

Rakta puspi (Nepalese)

Bunga raya (Malay)

Chaba (Thai)

Da hong hua (Chinese)

Fo sang (Chinese)

Zhu jin (Chinese)

Fusou (Japanese)

Haibisukasu (Japanese)

Fu sang (Taiwan (Chinese))

Mimo de Vênus (Brazil (Portuguese))

Mimo-chinês (Brazil (Portuguese))

Pejo (Colombia (Spanish))

Palo de la reina (Panama (Spanish))

Papo (Panama (Spanish))

Tapo (Panama (Spanish))

Description

Flowers are medium, large or very large; the single forms have five petals and a prominent exserted staminal column with yellow anthers along the sides near the tip and ending in five tiny velvety stigma pads; the double and semi-double forms are loosely to densely ball-like, the petals usually hiding the reproductive parts; borne singly from the leaf axils.

Faith - confidence in the Divine and the unshakable certitude of the Divine's Victory.

Faith is a general word - shraddhâ - the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace....

Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

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

This sraddha - the English word faith is inadequate to express it - is in reality an influence from the supreme Spirit and its light a message from our supramental being which is calling the lower nature to rise out of its petty present to a great self-becoming and self-exceeding. And that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the intellect, the heart or the life mind, but the inner soul which better knows the truth of its own destiny and mission.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 20-21. - The Synthesis of Yoga

Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it...

In the ignorance and darkness of the beginning, faith is the most direct expression of the Divine Power which comes to fight and conquer.

The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 9. - Questions And Answers (1957)

At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us - and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith.