1. Botanical
Name :Ixora
Coccinea (Deep Red)
Common
Name :Jungle-flame,
flame of the woods,
Rukmini
Spiritual Name :Aspiration
in the physical
Manifold,
simple and joyful
2. Botanical
Name :Ixora
Javanica (singaporensis)
Common
Name :Common
red ixora
Spiritual Name :Aspiration
in the physical for the
Supramental
Light
Clustered,
persistent, obstinate, organised,
methodical.
General Information
Aspiration in the physical
is found throughout the West Coast of India and in forest lands.
It is also cultivated as an ornamental shrub.
Aspiration in the physical
for the Supramental Light is also a shrub, compact and elegant,
with numerous orange-scarlet bright flower heads. These round flower
heads are formed of many small flowers. Together with the large
elliptic bright green leaves it has a royal appearance. It blooms
throughout the year and the stalks are attractive as cut flowers
because they last for many days in the flower vases. Propagation
can be done by air-ground layers and by cuttings.
Medicinal Properties
and Uses
The roots are astringent,
acrid, sedative, stomachic and antiseptic. They are useful in fever,
anorexia, diarrhoea, dysentery, sores, chronic ulcers and skin diseases.
The leaves are used in diarrhoea. The flowers are astringent, bitter
sweet, carminative, digestive and constipating and can be used in
dysentery, catarrhal bronchitis, sores and ulcers.
A Deeper Significance
Here is the Mother's
beautiful description of the deep aspiration which rises in Nature
towards light and the meaning of aspiration in the physical.
"Have you never
watched a forest with all its countless trees and plants simply
struggling to catch the light - twisting and trying in a hundred
possible ways just to be in the sun? That is precisely the feeling
of aspiration in the physical - the urge, the movement, the push
towards the light. Plants have more of it in their physical being
than men. Their whole life is a worship of light. Light is of course
the material symbol of the Divine, and the sun represents, under
material conditions, the Supreme Consciousness. The plants have
felt it quite distinctly in their own simple, blind way. Their aspiration
is intense, if you know how to become aware of it."
*
"When I speak of
aspiration in the physical I mean that the very consciousness in
you which hankers after material comfort and well-being should,
of itself without being compelled by the higher parts of your nature,
ask exclusively for the Divine's Love…"
- The Mother
