Why flowers are used in worship of God ..

Flowers are so lovely to behold. 

Earth seems to smile at us, being touched by the rays from the sky. 

Colours sing with a fragrance. 

The contours of petals wink at us with a violent goodliness of heart. 

We can ask the bee its opinion 

vagrant and sweet, 

like a king or differ from it 

like God. 

But a flower, the earthly smile at the divine, 

teases always our eyes 

and also our noses 

but teaches our mind 

again and again 

notes of divinity. 

I am musing on reading 

these lines of Havelock Ellis 

on flowers and God : 

' Flowers are of all things most completely
and profusely the obvious efflorescence
of loveliness in the whole physical
world. 

Gods are of all things the
most marvellous efflorescence of the
human psychic world. 

These two Lovelinesses,
the Loveliness of Sex and the
Loveliness of Creation, bring the whole
universe to two polar points, which yet
are in the closest degree resemblant and
allied."... 

And perhaps it is because
men and women are in function flowers
and in image gods that they are so
fascinating, even enwrapped in the rags,
physical and metaphysical, 

which sometimes
serve but to express the Flower-
God beneath.' 

Flower to the Divine... 

there flows my mind. 

Srirangam Mohanarangan 

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