Coconut
August 13, 2007
At the end of every yagya there is a final offering called Poornadhuti that has special mantras and one final offering that can be quite elaborate (sometimes including a silk sari). In our Kanchipuram yagyas we used a fresh coconut each day of the 12 day series. It is traditionally offered using the special carved wooden spoons as seen above. It can be quite a balancing act and most of the time the coconut rolls down to the side of the homa kund and has to be re-positioned to the center so that it will burn up.
On the last day of the whole yagya series we did a great Lakshmi yagya and when they dropped the coconut into the fire…it landed right in the middle of the fire and instead of rolling down, just stood there straight up! As I said at the time, “coincidence or conspiracy?” I think divine conspiracy.
