The symbolics of Lotus flower - from Mud to Sun

There is this flower that emerges not from well-tended gardens or high mountain springs, but from the depths of still, murky water.
Its roots are embedded in the dark, unseen mud below, and yet it rises—untouched, untainted—until it blooms in full glory upon the surface, facing the sun.

That is the lotus. And it is passing same stages of growth (your awakening) as you are.

Across the ancient traditions of the world, the lotus appears as a symbol of divine awakening.
In Egypt, it was the first to blossom after the primordial waters.
In Buddhism, it is the seat of the Buddha.
And in the Vedic tradition — the oldest spiritual wisdom known to humanity—it is the very embodiment of the soul’s path from ignorance to truth.

To understand the path of the lotus is to understand yourself, and even more than simple understanding is to Accept yourself for who you really are in any given perception of now . We all start from somewhere. When we take a look in the past and from where we have started this journey, it always seems a lot darker than the place where we are at now.
To walk the knowledge of the Vedas is to rise from mud to sunlight.

The Vedas: Voice of Eternal Knowledge

The Vedas are not just books.
They are the heard wisdom—śruti—transmitted to ancient rishis who received it not through thinking, but through inner silence, meditation, inner work.

The timeline of their arrival is elusive because they were never “written” in the modern sense.
They were sung, remembered, lived and tought wisdoms.
Scholars place their emergence around 1500–1200 BCE, but in the oral tradition, they are said to be beginningless.

Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.

The four Vedas—Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva—encompass hymns, mantras, rituals, philosophies, and eventually evolved into the mystical teachings of the Upanishads.
Interesting, not as today’s religion that asks for trust and to believe in it blindly, Vedas do not demand belief; they invite realization.

The path they offer is not linear. It is spiralic—a return to what has always been true, through the purification of the self. Questioning your self on every step is self imposed so often that we all, at one moment earlier or later, implement it as a life mantra.

Every evening before I say my Thanks to the day that is fading out, I have the same question - What I could have done in a different, more ‘‘Other’s’’ oriented way

Today we know that the perception depends on the observer. His emotional state, his health, wellbeing, his age, wisdom. In spiritual manner said – on Observer’s vibration level. Further we go up the spiral more we are capable of perceiving the same event from different angles and thus giving it a different perspectives, hence the possibility of obtaining multiple approaches to the same event. Especially when we arise to the point that we can consciously decide to become Simple Observers, even for personal events.

The Lotus Path of Awakening

🌑 Mud – The Sacred Beginning

The lotus is born in the darkest thickest mud, deep in the bed under the water.
It is sticky, silent, and full of decay. Yet without this mud, there would be no root, no anchor. The light cannot reach the seed of Lotus. Inside the Lotus DNA are written eons of the same path of successes, of strong knowledge in the right path. The first sprout is guided by inner strength and a pure knowledge that the right path is that one, only upward.

In the same way, your soul begins its journey hidden beneath layers of conditioning, fear, and ego.
At this stage, we often live unaware of our spiritual essence. We operate from survival, reaction, attachment. We are guided by sets of patterns we are not aware of yet. We are moving through life like on an assembly line.

This stage of the path demands guidance.
When we cannot see, we need a trusty hand to hold.
A guru, a teaching, a sacred rhythm to hold on to. Somebody to gently push us towards the way of realization and self-acknowledgment. The harsh truth is, that they are not visible around us and always visibly present. It’s on each one of us to recognize it, accept and dare to act upon it. Eventually when we realize positives of this surrendering, we start accepting help consciously.
To need help is not weakness; it is divine orchestration. In a deeper sense it’s the acceptance of our selves with all points of weaknesses and the need to evolve from the place we are at…not from where we would like to be at that moment.

“Let a man go to a teacher with a mind that is open and a heart that is humble.”

We may find ourselves repeating patterns, attracting pain, feeling lost. This Cycle of repetition is nothing more that the same Lesson over and again, until we learn it, accept it and then that knowledge morph our DNA. Only after that we will be able to see the same pattern and become Old Friends and have the relationship with it as WE want, conscious one.  

This mud is preparation.

In my own journey, the mud came in the form of isolation, confusion, and the release of identities I had clung to.
I didn’t know who, what I was. But I sensed something deeper was calling me.

This could be the whisper of the lotus seed within.

🌫️ Murky Waters – The Great Teachings of Life

As the lotus grows upward, it enters the murky water—a world without full darkness or full light.

This is the realm of transformation. The realm of infinite possibilities to learn, expand and grow.

Here, life begins to teach you through experience.
Each challenge, each heartbreak, each success that doesn’t satisfy—these are the waters that polish your soul and strenghten your personality.

This stage can be disorienting. Old beliefs dissolve. New truths have not yet solidified.
You are no longer who you were, but not yet who you are becoming. On of the strangest things in this periods is that you realize that every new truth is a truth for itself. You think it’s You, but for a fact it’s only your ego being tired of this perpetual state of change and looking for some piece of ‘’mud from below’’.

We often think awakening is peaceful. But the murky waters teach us that awakening is also disintegration. The ego resists. The mind clings.
KEEP RISING!

“As a fire burns dry grass, so the fire of knowledge burns all karma.”

Though you are further from the mud, the roots still nourish you. The darkness from which you came still feeds your becoming. This is why we practice gratitude for our past, even the painful parts.

As you move through the waters, you are invited to develop discernment, surrender, and patience.
You begin to trust that everything serves your unfolding, even if it is not understood in the moment. As the time passes you accept that without the faith in yourself and in the result….you are in a standstill.

Do your Best, do your Wisest and release it to energies of life to circle back the result to you.

In my own life, this was the time of shedding ambitions, releasing attachments, and walking away from that which no longer resonated.
It hurts, as the well-known phrase says ‘’ego death’’. I am not that much into this phrase, because nothing dies. Just changes the purpose. I see it more as another recognition of your Awareness expansion, new skill to handle your Ego….ego never dies, we morph it so it can continue helping us grow.  

Difficult period it is, painful occasionally. But it was sacred. Perhaps this the period that never ends. You see the Sun from the surface, but don’t forget that bigger part is still beneath you. If water around you rises, there you are again in the same struggle to reach the light. It’s a never ending spiral that pushes us and then embraces us. Learning cycle is the Life. That it why we are here, that is what we have decided to experience.

☀️ Surface on the Sunlight – The Emergence of the Self

Finally, the lotus pierces the water’s surface.

It opens.

Here, under the sun, it reveals its beauty not only to the world, but to itself.

You, too, reach this place—not through achievement, but through allowing.
Not through control, but through letting go.

This is the space of clarity, of being, of resting in your own awareness.
The Vedas call this state sat-chit-ānanda—existence, consciousness, bliss.

“Aham Brahmāsmi”
I am Brahman (the Absolute)

This does not mean the journey ends.
It means you now live from the light, not in search of it.

You perceive the world not as a battlefield, but as a dance.
Not as a problem to solve, but as a mirror of the Self.

The lotus remains rooted in the mud.
But it no longer identifies with it.

So do you….

You carry the humility of the mud, the wisdom of the water, and the light of the sun.

This is awakening. Not a dramatic event, but a steady blooming.
A quiet joy. A deep peace.

The Lotus in You

We are all at different points along the lotus path.

Some are still buried in mud—seeking, yearning.
Some are navigating the murky waters of emotional cleansing and karmic release.
And some are touching the sunlight, even if just for moments.

Wherever you are—honor it, accept, learn from it.

There is no need to rush the blooming….you burn out under the sun if your cells are not ready for that amount of heat. The goal is to enjoy it, embrace it, not to endure it.
The lotus does not bloom by striving, but by simply growing…
…by listening…
…by staying connected to its source.

“Just as the lotus is untouched by water, the wise are untouched by the world.”
— Bhagavad Gita

I wish you, to trust your process.
I wish you, to be grateful to your roots.
I wish you, to welcome your unfoldment.

From mud to sun…Embrace the Journey. The only way possible to grow.

Be Well. Stay Centered.
Marko