Dry Coconut
₹130.00
Description
- We never offer the coconut as it is.
- We remove the fibre that covers it and offer the fruit that is free from all the external fibre.
- Only then is it possible to break the coconut.
- By breaking the coconut, the water in it flows out.
- The heart is the coconut and it is covered by the fibre of desire.
- The water that flows out is the ‘Samskara’ or purification. The fibres on the surface are the desires.
- We must strip the heart of all desires and offer the core without the fibre. It then becomes an offering to God.
- If we plant a coconut as it is, in course of time and by watering it, another plant will grow out of it.
Used
- Dry coconuts are used as an offering to deities and especially during the final oblation (purna-ahuti) of any homa/yagna.
- It is filled with sugar and ghee and is then closed with a sacred thread, before offering to the homa fire.
Quantity
- 360 gm – Broken pieces of 2 coconuts
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