In English
Although the coconut appears to us as one single fruit, it still has three distinct parts, the fibre on the outside, the shell as a cover beneath it and the kernal inside. These parts though being distinct, yet constitute one single aspect of the coconut. In the same manner, regarded , and as three aspects, though apparently different, in reality are one and the same and thus he preached . The world consists of several ideas: there are many things that we see, there are many desires on the material side and this was treated by as analogous to the outer fibre of the coconut. He further compared the human body to the shell below the fibre of the coconut. He realised that the human body was made of destructible items like flesh and blood and so he compared it to the shell. But the which has the form of a lotus in each individual has been compared to the coconut kernal. By comparing this triple aspect of , and to these three constituents of the coconut, preached the philosophy of .