EIGHT FLOWERS DEAR TO SRI VISHNU

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अहिंसा प्रथमं पुष्पं  पुष्पं इन्द्रियनिग्रह :

सर्वभूत दया पुष्पं क्षमा पुष्पं विशेषत : I

ज्ञान पुष्पं तप पुष्पं शान्ति पुष्पं तथैवच

सत्यं अष्टविदं पुष्पो विष्णो : प्रीतिकरं भवेत्  II

The eight flowers  which are dear to Sri Vishnu :

Ahimsa Prathamam Pushpam   Pushpam Indriya Nigraha:

Sarvabhuta Daya Pushpam    Kshama Pushpam Visheshatha:

Jnanam  Pushpam Tapa Pushpam    Shanthi Pushpam Thathaiva cha

Satyam Ashtavidham Pushpa:    Vishno: Preetikaram Bhaveth  II

1. Ahimsa - Non-Violence.   
 2. Indriya Nigraha: - Sense Control.

3. Sarva Bhuta Daya - Love to all Living Beings.   
4. Kshama - Forgiveness.

5. Jnanam - Knowledge.     
6. Tapas - Austerities / Meditation

7. Shanti - Peace. Peace arises when we realize that all things happen by God's will.

8. Satyam - Truth. Truth is Sri Vishnu Himself.  To abide by truth and never swerving from it is the final (8th) flower offering to Vishnu.

Bhagavan  Sri Vishnu is indeed pleased by offering the above mentioned eight flowers.

 (Vishno: preetikaram bhaveth!)    By inculcating these Sattwa  Gunas in us, we'll become dear to the lord. 

Sri Krishna himself says in the Bhagavad Gita 
पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति |

तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मन: ||BG9. 26||

patraṁ puṣhpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayachchhati
tadahaṁ bhaktyupahṛitam aśhnāmi prayatātmanaḥ

If one offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or even water, I delightfully partake of that article offered with love by My devotee in pure consciousness.
Also in BG  ch12 :

अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्र: करुण एव च |

निर्ममो निरहङ्कार: समदु:खसुख: क्षमी || 13||

सन्तुष्ट: सततं योगी यतात्मा दृढनिश्चय: |

मय्यर्पितमनोबुद्धिर्यो मद्भक्त: स मे प्रिय: || 14||

adveṣhṭā sarva-bhūtānāṁ maitraḥ karuṇa eva cha

nirmamo nirahankāraḥ sama-duḥkha-sukhaḥ kṣhamī

santuṣhṭaḥ satataṁ yogī yatātmā dṛiḍha-niśhchayaḥ

mayy arpita-mano-buddhir yo mad-bhaktaḥ sa me priyaḥ

Those devotees are very dear to Me who are free from malice toward all living beings, who are friendly, and compassionate. They are free from attachment to possessions and egotism, equipoised in happiness and distress, and ever-forgiving. They are ever-contented, steadily united with Me in devotion, self-controlled, firm in conviction, and dedicated to Me in mind and intellect.

Sri Krishnaya thubhyam nama: