Sesath Offering

  30 November 2014

Rare offering of representing letting go of the entire possession...

To be an enlightened one, one should let go the craving for his her entire possession including the craving for “I”.  There is an offering to represent this action too. Also we use have a symbol for the entire possession too.  We call it “Sesatha” with the meaning of entire possession.  It also includes a weapon like “spear” which symbolize the protection of entire possession.

So we did another rare offering. We spend time on creating 1 lakh of tiny sesath. Just like we take time on collecting wealth for us… collecting possessions for us… we took time to create such tiny sesath… one lakh of them… We used tooth picks as the handle and one printed design as the main plate and decorate it 9 pearls to represent the 9 great qualities of Samma Sambuddha.

Then we use them to decorate one big main sesath and created another hundreds of such sesath. To represent the spear used with the sesath we have built Spears too.  What we mean through this? It’s a symbol of giving up the entire possession and also even the protection for that.  

Also with another meaning… For a noble practitioner his or her entire possession becomes the noble triple gem. So this offering also had the same meaning. A noble disciple who work towards to the enlightenment is the one who protect this possession through completing their practices and sharing the noble words.   Also one can take it like this.

Spear is harmful. Even it is used to killing. Likewise the noble disciple can kill the evil ones through their compassion and turn them in to noble ones. Killing has so many meaning if you observe little further.

So no matter what meaning you take, just that meaning should be powerful enough to get rid from your desires, hatred & ignorance through this offering.

So here are some glimpse of the offering to understand the way how we did it. Just imagine and think that you participated the event as it was done by you!