Special Story

This special article was contributed by Archana J. Sharda. Archana heads the Delhi operations of Blue Lotus.

From the creator – The Brahma

Blue - the colour of water, which represents movement; it also symbolizes honesty, faith and trustworthiness. Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala or Eight Auspicious Symbols that also signify purity, as the suffix. Two good enough reasons for me to adopt the name. The origin may never be explained but an attempt is possible.

Before the brightest star, 'The Sun', had to shine on the clean blue horizon, cobwebs had left me disillusioned, clouded the clarity of my mind. It needed more than the vision and the divine inner voice that kept calling inside, it needed the power to say to myself ‘I CAN’. As soon as my perspiration that dripped on the parched earth dried as I could do that the black threads melted into days and nights and then on the sky one fine shining day after I wrote ‘Blue Lotus'. The inner self was no longer thirsty, it was hungry now. The knowledge around was immense to be captured in my arms, so I gathered as many to form my ’Team Blue’.

On the sunrise orange canvas, ‘Blue Lotus’ was planted to spread its fragrance, the goodness had to multiply and reach out to the farthest corners. Five years today, the networks across represent the principles of the organisation, the butterflies and kites painted a prosperous picture and the business congruence started to take shape. The concentric squares are so true to my objective of achieving a work place that learns from within each other, cross pollination as we call it; the fresh green ideas from the young leaders allows us to spread our wings.

It brings me so much pride when I see the rainbow touching many hearts where, not just the team, but the external world knows about us too. Like the mythological flower we, born and destined to bring out something good, unerring and pure, are sure to achieve Nirvana – for us it would mean progress and growth, success as we may all like to call it!

What better a place can I offer you, where the blue lotus has grown over these few years and is trying to mount up the sky, the team is striving to hand hold each other, opportunities for business women are as much as for any of us. Heart, soul and mind reverberates the body and yet binds them all for the sake of oneness.

The oneness is the essence. The farther the links, the more significant their contributions. Harmony is quintessential as we all walk towards the same goal and unlimit ourselves to ‘possibility thinking’

I urge you all, let’s move together to map the unreal to the real. We’re still far behind; the competition is harsh and cutting our skins through. We all have to put all efforts as much as we can, as much as we should, for we know we can, for we know how it was when we took off, how it was when we started flying, but what will be the most wonderful would be something we still don’t know – how would it be flying much, much higher – reaching new heights, that will be infinity, that will be ecstasy.