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 Asteridae
► Order Gentianales
► Family Apocynaceae - Dogbane family
► Subfamily Apocynoideae
► Tribe Wrightieae
► Genus Nerium L. - Oleander
Synonyms
(=) Nerium indicum Mill.
Nerium odoratum
(=) Nerium odorum Aiton
Nerium verecundum
Common names
Indian oleander (English)
Oleander (English)
Rose bay (English)
Rosebay shrub (English)
Rose-laurel (English)
Sweet scented oleander (English)
Laurier (French)
Laurier-rose (French)
Oleandre (French)
Oleander (German)
Олеандр (Russian)
Олеандр душистый (Russian)
Олеандр обыкновенный (Russian)
Adelfa (Spanish)
Balandre (Spanish)
Laurel rosa (Spanish)
Pascua (Spanish)
Raktakarabi (India (Bengali))
Chandni (India (Hindi))
Ganer (India (Hindi))
Kaner (India (Hindi))
Asvamaraka (India (Sanskrit))
Chandata (India (Sanskrit))
Karaveera (India (Sanskrit))
Karavira (India (Sanskrit))
Alari (India (Tamil))
Arali (India (Tamil))
Kyochiku-to (Japanese)
Selonsroos (Afrikaans)
Espirradeira (Brazil (Portuguese))
Oleandro (Brazil (Portuguese))
Description
Sweetly fragrant single salverform flower with five separated lobes and twisted suggesting a pinwheel, and a light yellow centre with a delicate fringed corona; borne in loose cymes. A prolific flowering shrub with stiff lanceolate leaves.
Contemplation of the Divine
How calm, noble and pure is the splendour of the Divine's contemplation.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
What is needed is to succeed in meditating under all circumstances, and I call "meditating" not emptying your head but concentrating yourself in a contemplation of the Divine; and if you keep this contemplation within you, all that you do will change its quality - not its appearance, for apparently it will be the same thing, but its quality. And life will change its quality, and you, you will feel a little different from what you were, with a peace, a certitude, an inner calm, an unchanging force, something which never gives way.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 4. - Questions And Answers (1950-51)