- Coconut Symbolism
Coconut - (1) we give water at the foot of the tree, it converts into sweet drink and gives it with the bead. This is ideal Karma Yoga.
Yoga - (2) is a hard nut to crack, but the fruit is great. The first fruit is purity - the meat of the cocoanut is white.
(3) It is covered by a lot of fibre. When fibre is removed, we see 3 spines and 3 eyes.
This is Jnana Yoga - the soul is covered by Avidya - ignorance. Remove it. You will see the 3 states of consciousness or bodies and also 3 eyes of intuition to see them.
- Raja Yoga
It is the consciousness or Atma within that illuminates everything:
(1) in the waking state, it illuminates the world
(2) in the dream state it illuminates the dream objects
(3) when the mind is full of Vrittis - thought waves, it illuminates the Vrittis - hence we are not conscious of It being there, but only
when thoughts, feelings, and sense-perceptions are absent - Yoga Samadhi - does it shine as Itself.
- Prasad
Holy Sacrament.
People fell into great misfortune when they neglected the Prasad, says the Satyanarayana Katha.
We have our daily dose of God's Prasad - so many blessings - a beautiful day to live, healthy body, food, clothing, shelter.
Let us accept them and be thankful to God for them, instead of going on grumbling about what we do not have.
Think of the lame, the blind, the starving etc.,
Be thankful to God for what he has given you and glorify the Prasad.
- Dis-ease
Turning away from God is disease.
Who turns to God is at perfect ease within.
- Nothing Takes Place
Take your hair. You have cut it, 1 at a time, a thousand times. But if you had not, it would not have grown 1000!
Nature replaces what has apparently been destroyed.
Or, in other words, there is a continuous process of destruction - construction. Means nothing.
We see construction - the upward curve or destruction - the downward curve only because of our limited vision.
If we can perceive it as a whole, we shall realise it 'is'.
Birth, death, seed, plant, are not illusory, but partlal, limited, and so un-real views of the Reality.