The joy of union; the ordeal of the foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s grief

All-love was hers and its one heavenly cord
Bound all to all with her as golden tie.

Botanical Name: Ocimum Basilicum

Common Name: Common Basil

Spiritual Significance: Joy of Union with the Divine

These she controlled, nothing was shown outside:
She was still to them the child they knew and loved;

The sorrowing woman they saw not within;
No change was in her beautiful motions seen:
A worshipped empress all once vied to serve,
She made herself the diligent serf of all,

Nor spared the labour of broom and jar and well,
Or close gentle tending or to heap the fire
Of altar and kitchen, no slight task allowed
To others that her woman’s strength might do.

-          Savitri, Sri Aurobindo