Flowers Flowers Flowers!!!

Jai Ganesha!

With the Nartana Ritau in full swing our sacred gardens have woken up to the fact that winter is over. All the many flowers have started blooming again! We take a short walk and snap a photo of as many as we can find. And oh did we find a lot! It's hard to image just how many we would find if we had explored the whole aadheenam, but it would be tons. To be clear, you won't get the names of all the plants you see in this post, as that information is kept in the mind of another monk, but we can still enjoy all the pretty colors together!

"God speaks through flowers as well as through the tongue of man." - Siva Yogaswami

This purple hoya vine is enjoying the fresh rain

As you can see we\

ve had a full day of rainfall'

This rock garden has gained some contrast

These little air plants turn reddish-pink when they\

ve had enough rain'

and then they flower!

This agave is sending up its flower stock and trying to reach the height of the kodimaram

A red coral flower. Aptly named!

\"The flower has a stalk. There always has to be something that sustains you. If everything were perfect, there would be no reason for this birth. The moon makes no attempt to dispel the darkness that covers one portion of it; it gives light to the earth and dispels darkness there.\" Siva Yogaswami

\"All are flowers. Some flowers smell sweet; others have no smell-just for show\" - Yogaswami

The inside of a bromeliad

\"God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man\

s hands.\" Rabindranath Tagore'

wow

\"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.\" - Tagore

\"Your heart is the temple where God should be enshrined. Your good thoughts are the flowers, your good words the hymns, your good deeds the rituals. And love is the offering.\" - Mata Amritanandamayi Ma

\"As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life.\" Dhammapada 50

\"Make the mind always remain poised, like a hummingbird over a flower, so that you begin to live in the eternal now constantly, permanently.\" Gurudeva

\"The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.\"

\"To reach your goal the fastest, every day make a new attempt; every day feel that you are a fresh flower.\" Sri Chinmoy

\"The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze, but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.\" - Ramayana

This ti plant might not be a flower, but it still counts

a blue jade vine

A tiny hoya vine, with a potent scent

These aren\

t flowers either, but they definitely count!'

And these too

\"The earth laughs in flowers.\"-Ralph Waldo Emerson

\"In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.\"- Kakuz Okakura

These flowers may not look like much, but the reach of their bubblegum scent in unmatched

a thumb-sized relative of the pineapple

technically a mushroom is the flower of a fungus, so these count.

\"Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower\" - Swami Vivekananda

This is also technically not a flower, but Wow!

\"His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees, His moments of beauty triumph in a flower; The blue sea\

s chant, the rivulet\'s wandering voice Are murmurs falling from the Eternal\'s harp. This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.\" - Sri Aurobindo'

\"Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.\" Lao Tzu

\"In my silence, I experience one vast garden, spread out through the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher devas are about it in various ways and each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds in a special way to the glory of this garden.\" Sri Anandamayi Ma

Don\

t forget the banana flower'

\"What is God after all ? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.\" Sri Aurobindo

\"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.\" Leo Tolstoy

\"Beautiful world! Very pure world! The whole world is in you. Enjoy the beauty of nature. Love all.\" - Yogaswami

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