Flower of the Month

Flower of the Month

Spiritual Significance given by the Mother:

Aditi - the Divine Consciousness

‘Pure, immaculate, gloriously powerful.’ - The Mother

‘The Mother’s power and not any human endeavour and tapasya can alone rend the lid and tear the covering and shape the vessel and bring down into this world of obscurity and falsehood and death and suffering Truth and Light and Life divine and the immortal’s Ananda.’

- Sri Aurobindo (CWSA, Vol. 32, The Mother)

Names: Nelumbo nucifera. 'Alba'. Nymphaeaceae. Sacred lotus, East Indian lotus. Arvinda, Kamala, Padma, Pankajam.

Description: Very large fragrant chalice-shaped white flower with several rows of loosely arranged cupped translucent petals surrounding a unique centre of numerous golden stamens that encircle a raised yellow disc; borne singly on sturdy stems high above the water.