Spiritual significance of flowers, Creamy peacock flower = Delonix elata, Fabaceae [= Leguminosae]; Alt. Caesalpiniaceae

711 — 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 Rosidae

► Order Fabales

► Family Fabaceae [= Leguminosae] - Pea family

► Family (Alt) Caesalpiniaceae

► Subfamily Caesalpinioideae

► Tribe Caesalpinieae

► Genus Delonix Raf. - Delonix

Synonyms

≡ Poinciana elata (basinom) L.

Common names

Creamy peacock flower (English)

Flamboyant tree (English)

Tiger bean (English)

White gul mohur (English)

Flamboyant (French)

Waykaran (India (Hindi))

Siddhesvara (India (Sanskrit))

Padenarayan (India (Tamil))

Pandenarayan (India (Tamil))

Vatanarayanan (India (Tamil))

Description

Medium-sized cream white flower with four frilled rounded petals, a smaller raised and curled lemon yellow lip and ten very long conspicuous orange stamens; the flower fades to soft gold with age; borne in terminal corymbs. A medium-sized spreading tree with feathery foliage.

The Infinite, we may say, organises by the power of its self-knowledge the law of its own manifestation of being in the universe, not only the material universe present to our senses, but whatever lies behind it on whatever planes of existence. All is organised by it not under any inconscient compulsion, not according to a mental fantasy or caprice, but in its own infinite spiritual freedom according to the self-truth of its being, its infinite potentialities and its will of self-creation out of those potentialities, and the law of this self-truth is the necessity that compels created things to act and evolve each according to its own nature.

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

The "Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words "mind" and "mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1

The mind proper is divided into three parts - thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind - the former concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right, the second with the putting out of mental forces for realisation of the idea, the third with the expression of them in life (not only by speech, but by any form it can give).

Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 22. - Letters on Yoga.-P.1

The mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it.