set the
table with a tree of life (banyan symbolic) sheet
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These tree
sheets are beautiful but one way to use these is to set the table with one. The
tree of life branches of this golden sheet make dining mindful in space. The
banyan tree (strangler’s
fig) often represents the Trimūrti, the three lords of cosmic creation,
preservation and destruction (an tree of life interpretation) It is very often
used for metaphorical reference in the Vedic scriptures written in ancient
Sanskrit. My favorite symbolism is its synthesis of the four
branches of yoga paths (karma, jnana, bhakti & raja) putting roots down
from its branches as though to grow from above to below (earth) in the
synthesis of all four paths the whole of a person is in balance with the cosmos.
Dine in symbolic wholeness, from Chapter ‘Table and Kitchen Linens’ (Link) |
