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.
There is no fundamental difference in the attitude towards the future and the service of the Divine.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 13. - Words of the Mother
It is the powerful golden attraction of the future which draws us in spite of ourselves, as the sun draws the lotus from the mud, and forces us to a glory greater than any our mud or efforts or present triumphs could have foreseen or created.
The Mother
The Mother. Agenda. - Volume 12. - 1971
Evolution, being thus continuous, must have at any given moment a past with its fundamental results still in evidence, a present in which the results it is labouring over are in process of becoming, a future in which still unevolved powers and forms of being must appear till there is the full and perfect manifestation.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 19. - The Life Divine: Book 2
If the will in a race or civilisation is towards death, if it clings to the lassitude of decay and the laissez-faire of the moribund or even in strength insists blindly upon the propensities that lead to destruction or if it cherishes only the powers of dead Time and puts away from it the powers of the future, if it prefers life that was to life that will be, nothing, not even abundant strength and resources and intelligence, not even many calls to live and constantly offered opportunities will save it from an inevitable disintegration or collapse. But if there comes to it a strong faith in itself and a robust will to live, if it is open to the things that shall come, willing to seize on the future and what it offers and strong to compel it where it seems adverse, it can draw from adversity and defeat a force of invincible victory and rise from apparent helplessness and decay in a mighty flame of renovation to the light of a more splendid life.
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