One
day, when I proposed planting flowering trees at the yoga centre, a very
practical ashram resident asked me, “What’s the use? Why not plant okra or
bitter gourd instead?” He was right, of course. Flowers have no real
utilitarian value for us. If you look at it biologically, flowers are just
tools for the plant to reproduce. But I would like to live among flowers and be
a little hungry, rather than live among bitter gourd with a full stomach! A flower can be many things for people. For a
lover, it may be the face of the beloved. For a scientist, it may be just
an attempt at reproduction. But for a mystic, a flower is the Divine blossoming
in the highest possible way.
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