What is the meaning behind the lotus?

Answer 1

The lotus is a plant. It often grows in muck at the bottom of stagnant water and has a very beautiful flower. So it symbolizes how, in effect, beauty can grow from ugliness, which is similar to how a human being who is suffering can grow into a peaceful sage who is at ease. A chief method for doing this is seated meditation, and the cross-legged meditation posture is often called the lotus posture.

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Answer 2

The lotus blossom develops an attractive white flower from a tuber growing down in the mucky mud of a pond or river. What a great example of an emerging soul.

Answer 3

The symbolic meaning is purification