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 Orchidales
► Family Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Synonyms
Common names
Corsage orchid (English)
Orchidée (French)
Orchidée "Cattleya" (French)
Description
Large fragrant white flower with three narrow petal-like sepals held behind two wide horizontal trilled petals and a third lower petal modified to form a showy lip; borne in few-flowered racemes. Among the most beautiful of all orchids. An epiphyte with thick stiff leaves and pseudo-bulbs.
The aim of existence
The aim of our life on earth is to become conscious of the Divine.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
The true aim of life is to find the Divine's Presence deep inside oneself and to surrender to It so that It takes the lead of the life, all the feelings and all the actions of the body.
This gives a true and luminous aim to existence.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
