Devotees of Avatar Adi Da install the Divine Spirit-Tree of Light—or the Giving Tree—in their environments during the holiday season. The tree represents the human structure illuminated by Divine Light. As Avatar Adi Da says (in The Danavira Mela Book), the tree “represents the human nervous system and the esoteric psycho-physical structures that have been associated with the Spiritual process in all traditions, including the Light that shines from above”.
These images, created by devotee-artist Judith Parkinson, also contain other esoteric symbols. All the continents of Earth are visually represented, and the rainbow that encircles the image represents all the dimensions of cosmic existence—thus communicating the Prior Unity of everything and everyone. The two birds represent the “fruit-eating bird” and the Witness-bird from the story in the ancient Upanishads, and the two dogs represent the balance of yin and yang—all arising in the single indivisible tree that is pervaded and illuminated from all directions by Divine “Brightness”.
There is not, in Reality, the slightest difference between a human being, a dog, a tree, and a wall—not the slightest. There is not the slightest difference between you and the space in which you are apparently sitting. There is, in fact, no “difference” of any kind.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj
The Gnosticon
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To learn more about the Divine Spirit-Tree of Light,
click here to see this beautifully illustrated book by Avatar Adi Da's daughter Naamleela Free Jones.
Format: Glossy cards
Dimensions: 5.25 inch folded square