Hi,
This was taken when I was vocationing in a nearby hill sttion.(Please check out my Album for the pond full of pink lotus flowers.)Lotus is the National Flower of India.It looks nice and beautifull.This has many colours.This pond is full of pink lotuses.
"Lotus rise
Out of mud to stand
Tall and pure
Understand then why 'tis
So sacred to the East".
The LOTUS is a living metaphor...
Nelumbo nucifera is known by a number of common names, including sacred lotus, Indian lotus, sacred water lily, and water lily. An aquatic perennial, native to India and Indonesia, most commonly cultivated in water gardens. It is the National Flower of India. One of the earliest known flowering plants, it can be traced back to the Cretaceous period (135 million years ago).
Sacred to Hindu, Buddhist and Egyptian religions, it is symbolic of spiritual illumination and regeneration...
to remain "unstained by worldly things".
Lotus flowers are beautiful, fragrant, and edible. The most precious characteristic of Lotus flowers is that they grow out of the mud yet remain pure and unpolluted by it. They are called the “true gentlemen of flowers.” It is why countless generations of Chinese poets and painters are attracted to lotus flowers. Poems about lotus flowers started to appear in China three or four thousand years ago. Legend has it that the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss is filled with lotus flowers whose majestic beauty cannot be described in words.
Pammor.
