Coconut

Coconut is the only fruit which is considered to be the "Sacred Fruit". Other fruits have seeds which have the capacity to reproduce !

But in the case of coconut, if you eat coconut and throw its outer shell, nothing will grow out of it. If you want to grow a coconut tree, you have to sow the entire coconut tree itself.

The outer shell of coconut is the “Ahenkara or ego”, which one has to break. Once the ego is shed the mind will be as pure as the white tender coconut inside. The 3 eyes on the top explain as Satwa, Raja and Tama or Past, Present and Future etc.

Our ancestors had found out these amazing qualities in coconut long ago and offering coconut to God was made a ritual, which even today is followed religiously all over !