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Bracteate Flemingia (Flemingia strobilifera) also commonly known as Wild Hops / Luck Plant is a perennial shrub from the family (Fabaceae), native to India and Malaysia. The plant grows up to 2 m high. It has simple ovate leaves, with wavy margins.  The flowers small, white coloured with purplish streaks and are like typical pea flowers but produced in dangling racemes within overlapping leaf-like bracts. The bracts are persistent and turn brown as the flowers mature.  The fruit is an edible bean. The beans explosively dehisce on maturity to release seeds. Seeds are brown-black with red spots. The plant has medicinal uses in traditional medicine. Its root is used for treatment of epilepsy, hysteria and inducing sleep. The pounded root is also used to reduce fever. The leaves are used as a vermifuge for children. The plant requires full sun and moderate water for growth. Source: http://www.flowersofindia.net/cat.../slides/Wild%20H...

DAY - 24 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Vipaaka is fruit of the action; consequences of the action. Enjoying or suffering the fruit of an action is not applicable here. This does not touch that core of your being and existence, which is the Lord of creation; that consciousness which is free from this. And Aashaya. Aashaya means latent desires or impressions, opinions, seeds, etc.  So when a consciousness or a being is free from klesha, misery, karma, vipaaka - the fruit of action, and aashaya, the impressions of actions, then that being or consciousness is Eshwara or Lord. And the Lord is not somewhere in the sky but in your heart. It is in every being's heart. Your actions and the events taking place around you do not touch the central point of your life. The central core remains a virgin. Jesus was born to a virgin. This means that Jesus, the Lord was born to this virgin area deep inside you which is untouched by any events or happening in life. पुषवशेष - that special being is the Lord ...

 🌿Sea Bean (Entada spiralis) is a vulnerable species of woody climber from the family Fabaceae, native to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra.  🌿The woody liana grows up to 25 m long, climbing with support from neighboring trees. 🌿Its leaves are bipinnately compound, with up to 4 pairs of stalked secondary leaflets (pinnules) per primary leaflet (pinna). Its oppositely arranged pinnules have papery leaf blades that are elliptic to drop-shaped, with a notched tip. 🌿Its solitary flowering spikes are 15–20 cm long and arise from the leaf axils. Its white flowers are 5-merous, and either male or bisexual. The flowers are pollinated by insects. 🌿The legumes (fruits) are large, spirally coiled, irregularly segmented, woody pods. The plant can be propagated by seeds. 🌿Its bark and seeds contain saponin which can be used as a substitute for soap and also used in making shampoos, or skin wash to treat a range of disorders including itchi...

CHAPTER - 4  ~ Who Is God ~   DAY - 23  ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  "Asmita" means "me" or "I."  This feeling of "me,  I" is the second cause of suffering.  That is the reason we do the Hollow and Empty process.  When we do it, there is no "I".  You exist as though you are not there.  You exist like a flower; like a cloud.  You exist like the space - free, and hollow and empty, rather than as if you are somebody - "I,  I, me, me." Asmita is feeling what people think about you, what you want from them, how you could take advantage of them, whether they consider you to be good or bad, etc.  This gives you misery.  Nothing else can give you misery - need give you misery.  Your own idea of "me, mine, me, mine," not being one with the existence, having a separate feeling and identity, or having a superiority or inferiority complex give you misery.  In fact, all those people who consider themselves intelligent and...

CHAPTER - 4  ~ Who Is God ~  DAY - 22 ­ Surrendering to the Lord, you can achieve the fully blossomed state of consciousness.  Now, what is the Lord?  Who is the Lord?  Where is He?  It is easy to say surrender to God, but what is God?  Where is God?  Nobody has ever seen God.  What is it that rules this world?  You will find that it is love that rules the world.  The centre core of the existence rules whole universe.  Just like the sun is the center of the solar system and rules all the planets,  love is the core of your life.  Love is beyond your changing body, changing thoughts, and changing feelings.  It is the very center, core, of your existence, which is very subtle and delicate.  It can be called love or anything else.  That consciousness, the core of existence is responsible for this whole creation.  There lies the Lordship.  A bird feeds its young ones because of love.  A flower...