Spiritually and culturally significant in Eastern cultures, the Sacred Lotus is an ecosystem that thrives in clean freshwater. And as it thrives, it soothes and draws LIFE - both human and sentient (biodiversity increases), due to its unique vibrational field of stillness and bliss. But that is not all. The plant and its ecosystem can also prevent and mitigate flooding, be a means of adaptation to climate change, while offering many a harvestable product of economic value.
Why not then create, revive and conserve Lotus ponds and lakes?
I have spent the past 20+ years cultivating the lotus in huge clay pots and in a pond in my home garden. To know and understand it. I did it slowly, a clay pot/s at a time, then created a tiny pond. I have also travelled with my daughter to seven Asian countries to learn how the Sacred Lotus was adopted. Why go through this effort, you may ask? Because it was a cosmic call in 2001 that I could not at all ignore. When I set off on this spiritual journey, I had no clue whatsoever was in store. All I knew was that I had to keep going, however challenging.
Thaya Kulenthran
“Steering Compassion for the Earth Being and Sentient Beings”
An emergent lotus blossom and floating lotus leaves in a Lotus pond.
This Hawk Eagle, the Crested Goshawk periodically visits the Dayanidhi Earth Lotus Garden Sanctuary
The wildlife on the lotus leaf and flowers were observed in the Dayanidhi Earth Lotus Garden Sanctuary, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
A View of the Dayanidhi Earth Lotus Garden Sanctuary showing a flower, lotus leaves and pods which are harvestable.
Shinabozo Pond, Tokyo; 2012 - People feeling soothed by standing by the Lotus Pond.