Asparagus racemosus

Shatavari, Shatamull, Satavar, Wild Asparagus

Message of the Flower

Beauty Arising from Consecration

The Mother’s Comment

Be sincere and absolute in your consecration to the divine and your life will become harmonious and beautiful.

Spiritual Message by the Mother/ Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Let beauty be your constant ideal.

The beauty of the soul

The beauty of sentiments

The beauty of thoughts

The beauty of the action

The beauty in the work

so that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an expression of pure and harmonious beauty.

And the Divine Help shall always be with you.

The Mother, On Education: Curriculum

In the world of forms a violation of Beauty is as great a fault as a violation of Truth in the world of ideas. For Beauty is the worship Nature offers to the supreme Master of the universe; Beauty is the divine language in forms. And a consciousness of the Divine which is not translated externally by an understanding and expression of Beauty would be an incomplete consciousness.

The Mother, Prayers and Meditations: January 29, 1917

Delight is the soul of existence, beauty the intense impression, the concentrated form of delight.

Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry: The Soul of Poetic Delight and Beauty

Beauty is Ananda taking form—but the form need not be a physical shape. One speaks of a beautiful thought, a beautiful act, a beautiful soul. What we speak of as beauty is Ananda in manifestation.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: Art, Beauty and Ananda

Beauty is the special divine Manifestation in the physical as Truth is in the mind, Love in the heart, Power in the vital. Supramental beauty is the highest divine beauty manifesting in Matter.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Poetry and Art: Beauty

The one rule of the gnostic life would be the self-expression of the Spirit, the will of the Divine Being; that will, that self-expression could manifest through extreme simplicity or through extreme complexity and opulence or in their natural balance,—for beauty and plenitude, a hidden sweetness and laughter in things, a sunshine and gladness of life are also powers and expressions of the Spirit.

Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Divine Life

Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed, Love is his heart-beats' rhythm in mortal breasts, Happiness the smile on his adorable face.

Sri Aurobindo, Savitri - I: The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

Colour

White

Family

Asparagaceae

Person who named the flower

Carl Linnaeus.

Flower Size

1-2 cm

Flower Texture

Smooth

Number of Petals

Six tepals

Floral Symmetry

Radial

Fragrance of Flower

Slight sweet scent

Leaf Texture

Smooth

Leaf Arrangement

Cladodes in fascicles

Leaf Color

Green

Structural Variation (Shrub or Tree)

Climbing shrub

Life Cycle

Perennial

Blooming Period

Summer

Climate

Tropical and subtropical

Water Requirements

Moderate, well-drained soil

Soil Type

Rich, loamy

Temperature Ranges

Warm, not frost-tolerant

Sun or Shade

Partial shade

Susceptibility to Insects and Diseases

Root rot, aphids

Pollinators

Bees, small insects

Habitat

India, Himalayas, tropical jungles

Role in the Ecosystem

Habitat and food for insects

Quotations

Not specifically quoted

Ornamental

Not typically ornamental

Uses in Other Aspects of Life

Medicinal, culinary

Endangered Status

Not endangered, but overharvesting affects wild populations