Valentine's Day insights

For thousands of years, the rose, associated with romance, has been traditionally used in Ayurveda to soothe the emotions, to blossom happiness within the heart, maintain mental alertness, and awaken the mind.
Nowadays, its properties are still used to balance the Pitta subdosha, Sadhaka Pitta, which governs the brain, heart,

how we digest thoughts daily, regulate our emotions, and release internalised stress.
An enlivened and balanced Sadhaka Pitta, also enriches the "spiritual heart"

and growth in consciousness within a person.

"The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it."
- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh.
Thirty Years Around the World

"In the Western World, the lotus has been changed to the rose.
The roses of the Rosicrucian, the roses of the Masonic degrees, and also those of the Order of the Garter in England, all stand for the same thing, the awakening of consciousness and the unfolding into full bloom of the soul qualities of [wo]man.

When [wo]man awakens and opens this bud within [her]/himself,
[s]he finds,
like the gold pollen in a flower,
this wonderful spiritual city, Shamballa,
in the heart of the lotus.”
- Hall, Manly P.
The Initiates of the Flame