Light means something holy, something divine. . . . Light is fundamental in human experience and aspiration and meaning. Because of this, it is suitable to be associated with a universal celebration every year.  With these words, Avatar Adi Da Samraj envisioned the holiday season as a time when people of all faiths and places can celebrate the Light-in-Everybody a season, as he explained, that is essentially about Light, and about that light in everybody. It is about acknowledging the characteristic of light in everybody you know and meet, rather than darkness. It is about love rather than its opposite. In this special holiday book, Naamleela Free Jones shares the unique seasonal traditions that Avatar Adi Da Samraj, her father and guru, has developed on this basis. She writes: Throughout my life, I have had the good fortune to witness and participate in Bhagavan Adi Da's enjoyment of this holiday season, along with his detailed care in making it a truly sacred celebration for his devotees and a time filled with universal love and positiveness for people of all faiths and places. It is my hope that this book helps you to share in the love and delight of the wonderfully rich traditions of this season in Bhagavan Adi Da's company, with your friends and family, young and old. The book includes: - intimate family stories and special recipes - photographs collected over the years of Avatar Adi Da celebrating this season with his devotees - new, never before published photos of Avatar Adi Da as a child with His family - new, never before published quotes from Avatar Adi Da Samraj about this special holiday season - descriptions of the timeless tradition of guru-devotion, the true meaning of gift-giving, the spiritual significance of Santa Claus and other traditional symbols, and the process of making oneself a gift to the divine sacrament of universal sacrifice - explanations of sacred names and symbols that are part of Danavira Mela (the Celebration of the Hero of Giving) in Avatar Adi Da's company -Avatar Adi Da's description of the Celebration of 'Light-in-Everybody'--which he envisioned as a global celebration that everyone can participate in during the holiday season With this special publication, Avatar Adi Da and Naamleela Free Jones generously shared some of the most touching and intimate photographs of Avatar Adi Da's life that have ever been published. I love this season of celebration. In human terms, it is really the best season of the whole year. Rightly engaged, this season should be the most splendid, loving time of every year. —Avatar Adi Da Samraj Naamleela Free Jones has been devoted to her father and guru, Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj, all her life. She lived with him at Adidam hermitages and sanctuaries around the world, witnessing and serving His unique Blessing Work for nearly three decades. She currently resides at Bhagavan Adi Da's principal hermitage, in Fiji. In addition to being an enthusiastic participant in the special holiday traditions that she describes in this book, she is a singer, composer, and classical pianist, having produced and collaborated with world-renowned artists on a wide range of musical albums. Since the age of five, Naamleela was privately schooled as a sacred musician, concentrating in depth in both Western and Indian classical traditions. Her training and disposition was always to create music that drew people out of themselves into communion with a greater Divine reality, rather than to perform music to draw attention to herself. In this unique setting, her own ideas of musical form and sound developed, without the influence of the modern world. As a teenager, she began to travel, and continued to receive training from numerous sources and teachers throughout California, New York, Europe, and Hawaii. Most notably she was a student of Indian Master Ali Akbar Khan and his College of Music. Urged on by the need to grow out of her classical training, to not only repeat the music she was taught, but find her own expression, she began to hear and compose her own music. This process came to fruit in her first entirely original album in 2005, Eyes in Other Worlds , made in collaboration with Grammy-nominated producer Damian Taylor (Bjork/ Frou Frou/ The Prodigy). At the age of ten, she had set up her first beginner's music studio under the tutelage of a friend, platinum-selling composer Ray Lynch (Deep Breakfast, Sky of Mind) . Since then she has been self-producing her own CDs, and is now a certified music producer through the Berklee College of Music Online. She currently lives in Fiji and is producing her music from there, looking to collaborate long-distance with other musicians and friends. Her albums to date cover a wide range of styles and talent, from classical piano, to jazz, to traditional chant, while all reflecting the focus and setting of her life which has always been that of feeling contemplation and communion with the Divine. Her mus