When you break a coconut in the temple, you should feel that your egoism is broken too. The coconut offering is not made, so that, God may consume the kernel; It is a symbol of the destruction of ahamkara, which has to be split into two at one stroke, the stroke of wisdom. When do you get that effect? When does the coconut break at one stroke? When the fibrous cover of the shell is removed, is it not? So too, man must remove the fibrous matter that encases his heart... lust, anger, envy and the rest of the wicked brood. Man is the repository of vast power; he is no weakling. It is the vicious tendencies that make him weak, the dur-vasanas, as they are called. Draw inspiration from the Divine in you and you earn the glory of being good, sincere, honest, self-sacrificing, lovable. Hear good things, see good, think good - then, all the evil tendencies will be uprooted. (SSS Vol.4, p. 150)