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
► Subfamily Epidendroideae
► Genus Spathoglottis Blume - Ground orchid
Synonyms
Common names
Boat orchid (English)
Garden orchid (English)
Ground orchid (English)
Orchid (English)
Philippine ground orchid (English)
Phillippine orchid (English)
Terrestrial orchid (English)
Orchidée (French)
Orchidée "Spathoglottis plicata" (French)
Спатоглоттис складчатый (Russian)
Description
Small flower with three petal-like sepals, two similar but slightly broader petals and a small uniquely shaped centre and lip; borne in clusters on leafless stems. A free-flowering terrestrial orchid with ovoid pseudo-bulbs.
Attachment to the Divine
Wraps itself around the Divine and finds all its support in Him so as to be sure never to leave Him.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
There is only one salvation: to cling to the Divine like this (gesture with two fists).
Not clinging to what one thinks of the Divine, not even to what one feels of the Divine ... to an aspiration ... an aspiration as sincere as possible. And cling to that.
