DESIRES


Renunciation of Desires

The essential condition for realisation.

Tectona grandis
Teak, Indian oak, Saga, Saigun
Mildly fragrant tiny cream white flowers with six rounded lobes and six exserted stamens; borne in large airy cloudlike panicles. A large ornamental tree with large stiff leaves.


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Renunciation of Emotional Desires
Indispensable for transformation.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; white with purple markings; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

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Renunciation of Vital Desires
It has understood the futility of desires.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant purple bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

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Integral Renunciation of the Vital Desires

An indispensable condition for true progress.

Angelonia salicariifolia
Small fragrant white bilabiate flowers with two upper and three lower recurved rounded lobes; borne in terminal racemes. A perennial herb with viscid aromatic leaves.

Photo Courtesy: Tau' olunga

Absence of Desire
Luminous and fragrant, it expresses both peace and joy.

Atalantia monophylla
Small fragrant white four-petalled flowers with a tiny central cup; borne in clusters among the leaves. A small thorny tree with glossy deep green leaves.