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 Solanales
► Family Solanaceae - Potato family
► Subfamily Solanoideae
► Genus Datura L.
Synonyms
≡ Brugmansia suaveolens (basinom) (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Bercht. & J. Presl
Common names
Angel's trumpet (English)
Angel's-tears (English)
Thorn apple (English)
White angel's-trumpet (English)
Datura (French)
Pomme épineuse (French)
Stramoine (French)
Duftende Engelstrompete (German)
Дурман душистый (Russian)
Dhatura (India (Hindi))
Madulam (India (Tamil))
Description
Very large single pendulous trumpet-shaped white flower with the edge of the limb pleated into five pointed recurved lobes, a corolla tube heavily ribbed yellow green on the outside and the base of the flower set in a large glabrous inflated tubular green calyx. A small to medium- sized tree.
Tapasya is a strong concentration of the energies for a result - but usually concentration of them in the practice of some discipline for a spiritual result.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Undated writing unpublished by the Ashram.
Tapasya is the concentration of the will to get the results of sadhana and to conquer the lower nature.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3
When the will and energy are concentrated and used to control the mind, vital and physical and change them or to bring down the higher consciousness or for any other yogic purpose or high purpose, that is called Tapasya.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3
