Its significance varies across traditions: in Hinduism, it embodies the absence of color and light, while for the ancient Romans, both black and white lotus flowers symbolized the cycle of life ...

roses and lotus flowers. Devotees offer flowers and flower garlands to Hindu deities such as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth; Ganesha, the remover of obstacles; or the warrior goddess Durga.

The lotus flower holds high spiritual significance across Hinduism, Buddhism and different Asian cultures alike. In China, for example, the lotus symbolizes associated with purity, grace and beauty.

The sacredness of the Lotus flower comes from the fact that many Hindu Gods and Goddesses are seen holding a lotus in their hand, or sitting on a Lotus flower, or even placing it near their ears.

The lotus flower, a great seductress who lives but three ... The flower in full bloom is the insignia of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P ...