Guru Nanak Dev Ji's 5 Coins And Coconut

[sierrasierrajuliet]

Hello everyone,

I've been reading through sikhs.org and came across a page with information on Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The website states, "Guru Nanak then blessed Lehna with his ang (hand) and gave him a new name, Angad, saying 'you are a part of my body.' Guru Nanak placed 5 coins and a coconut in front of Guru Angad and bowed before him."

Question:

1. What is the significance/meaning of the 5 coins and coconut?

[ASinghKhalsa]

Coconut represents giving of head and 5 coins is offering to Guru. Not only this but Baba Buddha Ji also put tilak on Guru Angad Dev Sahib Ji.

Tradition continued to 11th guru and saroop with tilak on are still present. Akaal

[13Mirch]

Tilak is a sub-continental sign of devotion and bhagti. This ridiculous notion of tilak only being a Hindu concept is quite appalling. Hinduism is an institute with political dimensions. In reality it was term by which Islamic invaders insultingly referred to their non-Islamic compatriots. The present day Hinduism is an extremist take on the matter which aims to eradicate it's disparaties via suppression. The tilak marked an individual who was on a higher spiritual plane than his contemporaries. From what I know, the sixth Guru discarded this tradition as the prior five Gurus gave great credence to spirituality, but the latter five added temporality to the Sikh ethos.