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Rose is a Rose, Lotus is a Lotus

It was another bright day when I pulled myself out of bed and pushed to office. It takes me almost an hour to reach office which is just 10KM from my home. With all nice words to the management and traffic I reached office where I had to be a part of status meeting.

Status meeting was a a daily routine job and unwillingly I was holding one revolving chair when one team member was mumbling something about what he did last day. There was nothing interesting for me and I was just trying to keep myself out of this boredom and was looking around. Suddenly my eyes got hooked at a simple line written on someone desk's scratch pad. It was written on a place where no one used to sit. The first line caught my eyes and I got excited about the second line thinking that it would be something really interesting which will kill my boredom at least for a moment.

The first line read .. The rose is a rose. In no time I read the second line as well which said.. A lotus is a Lotus. My mind got fully disappointed. I tried to read it again together as my mind was not ready to accept that there is nothing funny in these lines. I read the lines together again.

The rose is a rose.
The lotus is a lotus.




I felt really annoyed. Then I felt like laughing. What a funny line. Everyone knows that rose will be a rose and lotus will be a lotus. I tried to draw my colleague attention toward the line. By showing those lines I uttered to him "See some crazy person have written this meaningless line. Rose is a rose, lotus is a lotus.. huh".
He was silent and serious. Nothing surprising or annoying I found in his reaction. I felt little bit uncomfortable. He said in a calm voice.. "I wrote those lines".
I was like WHATTT??? but then I tried to be calm and with unsuccessful effort of hiding my annoyance I asked "Well what is the meaning of these lines??"
He replied. These lines may look simple but to understand the very meaning of these lines and absorbing it in your daily life may lead to solve most of your problems as well may give you a completely new look to the world.
Our most problem is because we are not ready to accept what is happening in our life, how are the people around us and how the things are really happening. If a rose is red in color and have thorns with beautiful petals, that is rose. If we like or not, if we can appreciate its existence in this form or not, it will not change in any way. Let rose be a rose and accept and admire its beauty in its very form. Then only we will know the importance and value of rose. Then only we can see how attractive this rose is. If we always wished to see rose as a lotus we can never appreciate the existence as such. Same way the things around us is the same as we see it and the key to happiness is when we try to admire it in the same way of its existence.

I had nothing to say but just to appreciate this thought silently.




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  1. Saru Singhal on 1 September 2011 at 19:40

    Well, we should learn to admire the rose for being a rose and not except something else. Very profound thought and you conveyed it amazingly.

     
  2. prashant on 1 September 2011 at 21:50

    Thanks Saru ji

     
  3. Anita on 8 September 2011 at 15:18

    NICE ARTICLE !

     
  4. Ritu Sharma on 28 September 2011 at 11:19

    Good one .. Liked the way you presented fact of life which people know but they don't accept .Life is the way you want it to be , only we have to accept the way things are in life .

     
  5. Mahesh on 9 October 2011 at 13:43

    Hey Prashant, you have written a blog post on what I wrote on the white board.
    I was actually listening to Osho's audio discourses. In one of the discourses he said "A rose is a rose", "A Lotus is a Lotus". I liked those words so much that I wanted to write it on the white board.
    Now, my interpretation of those words are, have love in you about life, that is equal to that of a mother's love. Since mother does not bother how good or bad her kid is, but her love is never less, anytime.
    Only love liberates life, my understanding of life so far.

     
  6. Anonymous on 1 November 2011 at 22:08

    I had understood the meaning of the verse :P Quite deep philosophy....cheers to that...

     
  7. Manini on 14 December 2011 at 19:49

    Yes, you are correct, we should accept and admire the things around us in the same way of their existence.
    This is possible when we ACCEPT and ADMIRE ourselves in the same way of OUR Existence..

     
  8. Prashant on 18 December 2011 at 19:55

    Thanks Manini, keep it real.

     
  9. Unknown on 7 June 2021 at 13:12

    Amazingly articulated!

     


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