Sacred Sapling
Professor Eck received this sapling as prasad at a launch event for Swami Chidananda Saraswati’s Green Kumbh Initiative. We planted it at Lakshmi Kutir camp yesterday.
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Mapping the Kumbh Mela 
It would be interesting to know which tree sapling that is and why it was chosen.
This blog makes great reading. Thank you for it.
Maya Rao
January 22, 2013 at 6:25 am
Is it Bael plant?
Tushar
January 23, 2013 at 3:22 pm
I do not think it is bael since the leaves have more than three segments and are also more elongated. It might be an ashoka tree (Saraca asoca), though I am not certain.
Nicolas Roth
January 24, 2013 at 1:01 pm
The Ashoka is said to have medicinal properties – though the Neem beats it hollow.
I think religion is often used as advertising spiel to get people to do things that are good for them – example the Tulsi (Holy Basil) has so many medicinal properties. That must be the reason the ancients mandated every home to have a Tulsi.
It would be interesting to know if there was a reason Swami Chidananda Saraswati chose this sapling.
Maya Rao
January 24, 2013 at 3:15 pm