Guest guest Posted July 4, 2001 Report Share Posted July 4, 2001 Dear Brothers and Sisters of Samratchana Family..... Shankaram Shiva Shankaram Just wanted to share with this E-group a topic for sharing our views: I have collected interesting details on Breaking on Coconuts - on the Road Especially in front of Ganesh temples..... I welcome the members to share their views Freely and openly. Expecting a healthy participation. Shankaram Shiva Shankaram. Thanks Krish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2001 Report Share Posted July 4, 2001 SSS COCONUT AND THE EGO The coconut representing our 'ego' is broken by the GURU in front of the idol, meaning at the altar of truth, and the coconut milk representing the sweet water of happiness and joy is symbolically offered to us. The coconut shell, just like the ego, is hard to break. Every time a coconut is broken it is the suggestion that ego is being broken. The sweet coconut milk, which existed even before the coconut was broken, could not be experienced because of the hard shell covering it. It is only when the shell is broken that we are able to experience the joy. Similarly, in our lives the sweet water of happiness exists but the hard shell of our ego deprives us from experiencing it. Legend: He is very fond of sweet pudding or balls of rice flour with a sweet core. On one of His birthdays He was going around house to house accepting the offerings of sweet puddings. Having eaten a good number of these, He set out moving on His mouse at night. Suddenly the mouse stumbled--it had seen a snake and became frightened--with the result that Ganesha fell down. His stomach burst open and all the sweet puddings came out. But Ganesha stuffed them back into His stomach and, catching hold of the snake, tied it around His belly. Seeing all this, the moon in the sky had a hearty laugh. This unseemly behaviour of the moon annoyed Him immensely and so he pulled out one of His tusks and hurled it against the moon, and cursed that no one should look at the moon on the Ganesh Chaturthi day. Source: 'All about Lord Ganesha' SSS _______________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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