Girish Karnad’s Flowers, like Broken Images, is also a monologue that leads us deep into the human unconscious and presents before us the conflict between the inner artistic self and the Dharma or religion. Karnad very clearly presents the flow of human thoughts that reveals the psychic discourse of a person who is deeply rooted in Indian Dharma and who is torn between his inner self and his devotion to religion, God, and family . In this play , instead of delineating the female sexual desire like Naga-Mandala, Karnad focuses on the male desire for carnal love. The Priest obtains great satisfaction in displaying h is art while decorating the linga. The linga not only provides the basis for religious devotion to him but also gives him opportunity to reali se his artistic freedom. In Flowers the phallic symbol Shiva Linga becomes a medium for attaining salvation. Its benignity and benevolence drive him to the complete renunciation of the worldly desires and strive for attaining Moksha or the Mukti. Total submission to God comes after the arousal of the sense of guilt within the psyche of the individual. The Priest is more burdened with the unexpected and impartial benevolence of God ushered on him than with the sin of adultery and sacrilege. He cannot think himself going unpunished by God. He also cannot exist without realising the freedom of his artistic self. The state of passivity and the sense of guilt compels him to denounce the world and look for the answers to his question in total identification with God