1. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Collection

Your whole life is nothing but the Mahābhārat War. The Mahābharāt should be read again and again to understand the intricacies of life, the complications of life, and the ability to handle life. The true story of this perfectly recorded epic is about two warring clans, Kauravas and Pānḍavas, closely related to one another. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the blind king of Hastināpur and father of the 100 Kaurava brothers was the brother of Pānḍu, whose children were the five Pānḍava princes.

It is a tale of strife between cousins and ultimately between dhārmic and adhārmic, righteous and unrighteous civilizations.

Since Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind, Pānḍu was made the king of Hastināpura. Pānḍu was cursed by a sage that he would die if he ever entered into a physical relationship with his wives.

He therefore had no children. Vyāsa says that all the five Pānḍava children were born to their mothers Kuntī and Mādri through the blessing of divine beings. Pānḍu handed over the kingdom and his children to his blind brother.

Kuntī, who is the embodiment of tapas, spiritual penance, had received a boon when she was still a young unmarried adolescent, that she could summon any divine power at will to father a child. Before she married, she tested her boon. The Sun god, Sūrya appeared before her. Karṇa was born to her as a result. In fear of social reprisals, she cast the newborn away in a river. Yudhiṣṭra, Bhīma and Arjuna were born to Kuntī after her marriage by invocation of her powers, and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva were born to Mādri, the second wife of Pānḍu.

Yudhiṣṭra was born to Kuntī as a result of her being blessed by Yama, the god of death, dharma and justice, Bhīma by Vāyu, the god of wind, and Arjuna by Indra, god of all the divine beings. Nakula and Sahadeva, the youngest Pānḍava twins, were born to Mādri, through the Divine Aśvini twins.

Dhṛtarāṣṭra had a hundred sons through his wife Gāndhārī. The eldest of these Kaurava princes was Duryodhana. Duryodhana felt no love for his five Pānḍava cousins. He made many unsuccessful attempts, along with his brother Duśśāsana, to kill the Pānḍava brothers. Kuntī's eldest son Karṇa, whom she had cast away at birth, was found and brought up by a chariot driver in the palace, and by a strange twist of fate, joined hands with Duryodhana.

Dhṛtarāṣṭra gave Yudhiṣṭra one half of the Kuru kingdom on his coming of age, since the Pānḍava prince was the rightful heir to the throne that his father Pānḍu had vacated.

Yudhiṣṭra ruled from his new capital Indraprastha, along with his brothers Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva.

Arjuna won the hand of princess Draupadī, daughter of the king of Pāñcāla, in a svayaṁvara, a marital contest in which princes fought for the hand of a fair damsel.

In fulfillment of their mother Kuntī's desire that the brothers share everything equally, Draupadī became the wife of all five Pānḍava brothers. Duryodhana persuaded Yudhiṣṭra to join a gambling session, where his cunning uncle Śakunī defeated the Pānḍava king.

Yudhiṣṭra lost all that he owned—his kingdom, his brothers, his wife and himself, to Duryodhana. Duśśāsana shamed Draupadī in public by trying to disrobe her. The Pānḍava brothers and Draupadī were forced to go into exile for fourteen years, with the condition that in the last year they should live incognito or ajyāta vāsa.

At the end of the fourteen years, the Pānḍava brothers tried to reclaim their kingdom. In this effort they were helped by Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the king of the Yādava clan, who is the eighth divine incarnation of Bhagavān Viṣṇu.

However, Duryodhana refused to yield even a needlepoint of land, and as a result, the Great War, the War of Mahābhārat ensued. In this war, various rulers of the entire nation that is modern Bharat aligned with one or the other of these two clans, the Kauravas or the Pānḍavas.

Kṛṣṇa offered to join with either of the two clans. He says, 'One of you may have Me unarmed. I will not take any part in the battle. The other may have my entire Yādava army.'

When the offer was first made to Duryodhana, he predictably chose the large and well-armed Yādava army, Nārāyaṇī Senā, in preference to the unarmed Kṛṣṇa.

Arjuna joyfully and gratefully chose his dearest friend, his life mentor and his Guru, Kṛṣṇa, Nārāyaṇa, to be his unarmed charioteer!

This whole history is such a beautiful happening. Mahābhārat is actually your life! Every character in the Mahābhārat teaches so much! We don't need to go anywhere for our life success or fulfillment or for anything else that we may desire. We don't need to study any other book to learn the human psychology or the science of living and leaving. Whether we seek righteous living—dharma; or we want to learn business or administration, economy or abundance—artha; or we want to create the best rich lifestyle—kāma; or we want to be a leader and want the enriching life of being enlightened mokṣa, for all these purposes, we don't need anything other than the Mahābharāt!

Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābharāt!

Any character we see in our life is mapped to Mahābharāt's one character. They are either half or full representation of some character.

To know how to handle them and even handle yourself, just see how Śrī Kṛṣṇa handles them and handle them the same way. The Mahābharāt war is a representation of life as it was lived in that age.

Vyāsa, its author is an unbiased historian who recorded the whole history as it happened without trying to apply any makeup. People ask whether the Mahābharāt war happened at all!

If the Mahābharāt was a story and not history, Vyāsa should receive multiple Pulitzer prizes for his highly creative work! The Mahābharāt is the longest literary work in the whole world with hundred thousand Saṃskṛit verses—the longest poem ever written with such delicate harmony of unmatched poetic perfection. It is larger than the Greek epics. Vyāsa had no computer, no tape recorder with speech-to-text capabilities. He dictated and Bhagavān Ganeṣa wrote it down!

• Yudhiṣṭra is embodiment of Integrity the power of words, vāk śakti.
• Bhīma is embodiment of Authenticity the power of thoughts, mano śakti.

Arjuna is embodiment of Responsibility—the power of feeling, prema śakti.

• Sahadeva is embodiment of Enriching the power of living, ātma śakti.

  • Nakula is embodiment of causing reality for others.

• Śakuni, the maternal uncle of Duryodhana embodies the pattern of self-hatred, which is cunningness personified.

• Droṇa represents all the best knowledge one imbibes and the teachers one encounters, who guide us but are unable to take us through to the ultimate flowering of enlightenment. It is difficult to give them up since one feels grateful to them. This is where the Enlightened Master, the incarnation steps in and guides us.

• Duryodhana, represents one's ego or root-pattern, the most difficult to conquer as it leads one to selfdestruction. One needs the full help of the Master here. It is subtle work and even the Master's help may not be obvious, since at this point, sometimes the ego makes us deny and disconnect from the Master as well.

• Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate act of compassion that one can offer to the world. Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Ṃaha Viśnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion.

Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Ṣarva Ṃangalatva all the auspicious qualities and all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Ṣri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic, conflict-free way.

Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Kṛṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate Till now everyone blames Bhagavan Sri Krishna for this Kurukshetra war but that's the greatest sacrifice Bhagavan Sri Krishna did to save the planet Earth. If Kurukshetra was not conducted at that time under the controlled conditions and direct supervision of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, planet Earth would not have survived more than three years.

act of compassion that one can offer to the world. Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Ṃaha Viśnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion. Bhagavan Ṣri Kṛṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Ṣarva Ṃangalatva all the auspicious qualities a nd all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Ṣri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and The wide spread availability of the Astra shastras without Shastra, without the knowledge and vision, was posing a huge threat to the whole of humanity and planet Earth, and for life itself. The greatest achievement of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is destroying all the weapons in one controlled condition and saving planet earth, eliminating the nuclear weapons and the knowledge of these nuclear weapons to save humanity from total annihilation.

simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic,

conflict-free way.

Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator, in glorifying the Gītā sings, 'the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who drinks the nectar of Gītā?

Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat, bhāratamṛta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān kṛṣṇa Himself.'

The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state of Haryana in modern day Bharat. All the kings and princes were related to one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerlessness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfitting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

sañjaya uvācha taṁ tathā kṛipayāviṣhṭama śhrupūrṇākulekṣhaṇam viṣhīdantamidaṁ vākyam uvācha madhusūdanaḥ ॥ २-१॥

As Arjuna's eyes overflowed with tears of pity and despair, Madhusudana (Kṛṣṇa) spoke to him thus

The first principle is Integrated Listening first allow someone to speak fully

śrībhagavānuvāca kutastvā kaśmalamidaṁ viṣame samupasthitam anārya-juṣṭam asvargyam akīrti-karam arjuna

Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa says: Where from has this impurity, dejection descended on you at this critical time, Arjuna! You behave unlike a noble man and this will keep you away from realization

Lead yourself toward your Realization

klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayyupapadyate kṣhudraṁ hṛidaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣhṭha parantapa

Do not yield to fear, Pārtha! It does not befit you Drop this powerlessness of heart and stand up O Parantapa, destroyer of enemy

Life always demands your expansion, because expansion is the natural law of life.

In Vedānta, the first principle is Śṛavana—Integrated Listening; the second principle is Manana— Intranalyzing, meaning analyzing the truth for the sake of internalizing it not for rejecting it; and the third principle is Nididhyāsana—Living and radiating the truth!

Right listening means allowing the words to enter your inner space automatically; letting them cognize, without you constantly interfering with your incompletions, is Listening.

Arjuna was distraught with pity and despair. His pity was for his opposition that consisted of his svajanam, kinsmen, elders, teachers, relatives and friends. He despaired at the thought of what would happen if he did have to kill them. Kṛṣṇa listened to him carefully, completely.

Kṛṣṇa wanted to give Arjuna time to open his mind, heart and being to Him, Arjuna's friend, guide and master, so that His answers would penetrate Arjuna's very being. Kṛṣṇa asks Arjuna directly, 'How did such impurities, such incompletions come upon you? They are not for a man like you. They will not lead you to higher planes but only defame you.' Kṛṣṇa addresses Arjuna's deep fear and powerlessness straightaway without any philosophy, and asks him to give up his foolish weakness and get up and fight—tyaktvottiṣṭha parantapa. He does not offer any consolation, just a straightforward scolding to awaken him!

Arjuna's root thought pattern originates from fear and worry. His maṇipūraka cakra (navel center) and svādiṣṭhāna cakra (being center), energy centers that get locked due to worry and fear, are now completely locked! Because of his fear pattern, he has deep seated incompletions, stress and worry.

Arjuna is confronted with all the four fears: fear that he may lose whatever he possesses, that he may be maimed in the war, that he may lose his near and dear ones, and fourth, that he may lose his very life. These fears have in turn led to his powerlessness of heart. Understand, all your fears, all your anxieties, all your patterns are directed only in one line—fear of your possibilities

Listen! Your bigness frightens you. You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. NO! You are suffocated by your bigness!

Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being 'forced' to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Arjuna's tiredness, his weakness, his powerlessness all these are nothing but the resistance he has to seeing his own bigness!

Listen! The more you engage with life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you. Whenever you are feeling weak, tired, and powerless, the first thing you should do is this: immediately take on ten responsibilities and commit to fulfill them within an impossibly short time! Shake your inner space so powerfully with that commitment that there will be no way for weakness and tiredness to grow inside you.

Continuously human beings resist expansion. Incarnations happen on the planet to remind human beings about their possibilities, to expand human consciousness.

The constant, repetitive reference to Bhagavān in the Gītā is to emphasize this point that Kṛṣṇa is not just the mere charioteer of Arjuna, Pārthasārathi, or Keśava, destroyer of the demon Keśin or Madhusūdana, destroyer of the demon Madhu, but that He is Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Energy, who is formless and nameless. This is also to reinforce the satya, truth that you too, like Arjuna, are God and no less.

Helping each child realize the power of listening. Helping each child understand that life is all about embracing expansion. Helping each child go beyond fear and worry. Helping each child reconnect to one's own divinity.

• ❖ What is right listening?
• ❖ What are the 3 principles in Vedānta?
• ❖ What had Kṛṣṇa wanted to give Arjuna?
• ❖ What locks the Svādiṣṭhāna Chakra?
• ❖ What locks the Maṇipūraka Chakra?
• ❖ What do all our fears come down to?
• ❖ What suffocates you?
• ❖ 8.What happens when we engage with life?
• ❖ What is the message that Kṛṣṇa shares throughout the Gītā?
• ❖ Who is God?

• 1. Maṇipūraka Chakra picture
• 2. Chart paper
• 3. Variety of shapes of colored paper
• 4. Glue

Encourage the children to create their own collage with the paper shapes, to represent the Maṇipūraka Chakra.

All our worries are nothing but a collection of words in the languages that we know and they cause so much confusion and misinterpretation in us.

Conclusion: Bringing awareness to the Maṇipūraka Chakra to embrace life and expand

• 1. A rope
• 2. Blindfolds

The children will make a team. Only one member will be the leader and is shown an obstacle course and the manner in which it has to be approached. All members of the team are then blindfolded. The team members are roped together with the leader taking the team through the course.

To get the team through, communication and organizational skills are essential.

Leadership requires good listening

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Vidhya is identifying the thought currents in which you are stuck and reinventing yourself from it. Discuss a situation where you are stuck and reinventing yourself. Pen down all the situations in your life that you are stuck in due to fear of making a mistake. Write down the thought currents in which you are stuck and need to reinvent. Complete with all those thought currents and write down how you are going to take responsibility for it and get into action.

Those children who cannot write can draw the incidents or an adult can help them to pen down the incidents.

Responsibility evolves you into a new being. Conclude by reiterating the importance about taking responsibility for the whole Cosmos

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

sañjaya uvāca evamuktvā hṛṣīkeśaṁ guḍākeśaḥ parantapa na yotsya iti govinda muktvā tūṣṇīṁ babhūva ha

Sañjaya said: Guḍākeśa (Arjuna) then said to Hṛṣīkeśa (Kṛṣṇa), 'Govinda, I shall not fight,' and fell silent.

It is the Master who can lead you through the path of self-completion.

tam uvāca hṛṣīkeśaḥ prahasanniva bhārata senayor ubhayor madhye viṣīdantamidaṁ vacaḥ

Kṛṣṇa, Hṛṣikeśa, smilingly spoke the following words to the grief-stricken Arjuna, as they were placed in the middle of both armies.

Kṛṣṇa addresses Arjuna's incompletion directly.

śrībhagavānuvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁś ca bhāṣase I gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ

Bhagavān says: You grieve for those that should not be grieved for and yet you speak words of wisdom The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.

A truly intelligent person does not bother about death.

na tvevāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param

It is not that at anytime in the past I did not exist. So did you and these rulers exist and we shall not ever cease to be hereafter.

See the brilliance of Śrī Kṛṣṇa! He is so soaked in the space of completion.

dehino'sminyathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

Just as the spirit in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so does it pass into another body; the man centered in himself does not fear this

The creator is also the destroyer.

Once again, having lamented about what he is being forced to do, and not wishing to do what he is expected to do, Arjuna, like a petulant child sits down saying, 'Govinda, I am not going to fight.' It is as if Arjuna is waiting to be persuaded.

He is seeking an explanation. Kṛṣṇa says to him gently and smilingly, 'While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead.'

Kṛṣṇa is more shocked than Arjuna because He has never seen this dimension of Arjuna—shivering, shaking! Kṛṣṇa has never seen this powerless, weak side of Arjuna.

See, trusting Arjuna, He went all the way as a peace ambassador to the assembly of Kauravas. The great war of Mahābhārat was the first World War because at that time, the whole of humanity, fifty-four deśas (countries) were divided into two parts. The whole world was participating.

Either you are on the side of Duryodhana, the Kaurava clan or on the side of Arjuna, the Pāṇḍava clan. And suddenly, Arjuna is saying, 'I am not waging the war!' How will you handle this? How Kṛṣṇa feels! Everyone knows Kṛṣṇa may not be in the front, but He is running the whole show, the whole war play! So, Kṛṣṇa has to solve Arjuna's problem.

Sañjaya says Kṛṣṇa was smiling as He uttered these words. Kṛṣṇa must have been laughing at Arjuna. 'You fool; you pretend to be wise and quote the scriptures.Who do you think you are quoting the scriptures to? What can you understand of what I Myself have said?'

Kṛṣṇa continues: 'Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you and all these kings, and never in the future shall any of us cease to be.' With this verse begins the essence of the whole Gītā. This is ātmajñāna, Self-Realization, the knowledge of completion. If you can understand this one verse, you can become enlightened straightaway and enter into eternal bliss.

The past, present and future, all the three put together are eternal, Nitya or Ātman.

Only when you come to the present moment do you experience Ātman— your true Self, but as of now you are constantly shuttling between the past and future. When the number of thoughts reduces, you will not even be aware of the passage of time. For example, when you are with someone you love, even two or three hours will seem like a short while. But, when you are with someone whose company is boring, even a short time seems very long.

Kṛṣṇa, fully aware of Arjuna's dilemma, moves forward in his mission to destroy Arjuna's identity, the root pattern. The Guru, Master is a surgeon who removes the cancer of ego, the root thought pattern. This is what Kṛṣṇa does throughout the Gītā dialogue. To give Arjuna credit, he stays through this surgery. Many weaker men would have run away from the operation theatre, this battlefield, with no desire to let go of their identities. Arjuna's greatness lies in his integrity, his powerful determination, his decision to listen to his Master and be guided by Him.

Kṛṣṇa says beautifully, 'You were there in the past, you are in the present and you will be in the future; you do not die. You existed before birth and will remain after death. Whatever dies, can never live. Whatever lives can never die.' When Kṛṣṇa says, 'You are the eternal soul,' He means that as a being, you are beyond time.

Anything which does not allow, anything which stands in between you and the present moment, acting as a barrier; which does not allow you to connect completely with life and with other people in your life in the present moment, is what is called incompletion. The gist of the second chapter, Sā�…khya Yogaḥ is that you are the soul, that you are complete, that you are divine and that you are God. Completion is the only methodology where you can complete with your past and future incompletions. You need to know that when you do completion now, don't think that only your future will be in completion and complete. No! Even your past gets altered. Even your past becomes complete! The moment you create the space of completion, what Kṛṣṇa declares, ' you are the eternal soul, beyond your body and mind,' becomes reality in your life.

1. Understand that the soul is eternal.

2. Understand that death is nothing to be feared.

• ❖ What is Arjuna seeking for?
• ❖ Why was the great war of Mahābhārat was the first World War?
• ❖ What is the essence of the whole Gītā?
• ❖ What is Ātman?
• ❖ When do you experience Ātman?
• ❖ Why are we not experiencing our Ātman?
• ❖ What happens when the number of thoughts reduce?
• ❖ What does Kṛṣṇa mean when He says, 'You are the eternal soul'?

• 1. Plain sheet
• 2. Poster colors
• 3. Sketch pens or markers

Do fingerprinting on the plain sheet and using sketch pens or markers to create their own creatures out of it. E.g.: Bird, Man, and Monster

All our worries are nothing but a collection of words in the languages that we know and they cause so much confusion and misinterpretation in us.

From the same fingerprinting you can make different creatures, similarly you are the source and you are responsible for all the happenings around you.

• 1. Seeds
• 2. Soil
• 3. Plant pot or sow the seeds directly in the earth

Tell your friends how greatly beneficial trees are. They sustain our lives. Just imagine, if they had not provided us with oxygen or with food, rain, fuel, furniture, herbs, houses for birds etc, what kind of life it would have been? It is the need of the hour that something should be done to restrain the increasing environmental degradation by planting more trees. Take seeds, plants with your friends under the supervision of adults

Understand the cycle of life, where seeds grow into trees which provide seeds again. Just like the seasons of the body, youth, middle age and old age.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pen or pencil

Samsara Dahana Kriya is the way for perpetual completion. Samskara Dahana Kriya will liberate you from the painful experiences of the past. If something or somebody can save you from bringing your past into your future, it is only Samskara Dahana Kriya. Everyone doing SDK should take an oath not to exploit others who share the details about their past with them during SDK.

• 1. Sit and pen down all your pain patterns
• 2. Sit and visualize and then relive them in your inner space and relieve them from your lives. Do this at least 5 times or till you stop seeing the effect of those past thoughts on your life.
• 3. Then relive them using the mirror and relieve those thoughts using the mirror where you are just a mere spectator and the past is like a movie running in the mirror
• 4. Then sit with 5 other people individually and go on sharing with them. These five people can be your father, mother, sibling and friends.
• 5. Listen to the completion stories of at least five other people. Teaching Samaskara Dahana Kriya, making people do Samskara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful way of spreading global peace.

The moment you create the space of completion, Kṛṣṇa declares, ' you are the eternal soul, beyond your body and mind,' that becomes reality in your life. When we really live in the moment we will be liberated.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

atha cainaṁ nityajātaṁ nityaṁ vā manyase mṛtam tathāpi tvaṁ mahābāho naivaṁ śocitum arhasi

O mighty-armed, even if you should think of the soul as being constantly born and constantly dying, even then, you should not lament

Everything is in a state of becoming something else.

jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur dhruvaṁ janma mṛtasya ca tasmādaparihārye'rthe na tvaṁ śocitumarhasi

Indeed, death is certain for the born and birth is certain for the dead Therefore, you should not grieve over the inevitable

We all know death is inevitable.

avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyaktamadhyāni bhārata avyakta-nidhanāny eva tatra kā paridevanā

O Bhārata, all beings are unmanifest in their beginning, seemingly manifest in their middle, and unmanifest again in their end. So, what need then for grieving?

The spirit lives on after the body perishes and death is indeed an event to celebrate and not to grieve.

āścaryavatpaśyati kaścidenam māścaryavadvadati tathaiva cānyaḥ āścaryavaccainamanyaḥ śṛṇoti śṛutvāpyenaṁ veda na caiva kaścit

One sees It as a wonder, another speaks of It as a wonder, another hears of It as a wonder. Yet, having heard, none understands It at all.

Life is wondrous!

dehī nityamavadhyo 'yaṁ dehe sarvasya bhārata tasmātsarvāni bhūtāni na tvaṁ śocitumarhasi

O Bhārata, this that dwells in the body of everyone can never be destroyed; do not grieve for any creature.

The present moment is the only moment when we are truly alive, awake.

When you understand what Kṛṣṇa is saying in these verses you get over any fear of death. In fact you will celebrate death.

Death is inevitable for the born, jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur; and birth is certain for the dead, dhruvaṁ janma mṛtasya ca. Death can be a passage that one can look forward to. We all know death is inevitable. Yet for many It is a wonder.

Completion makes you integrated; completion makes you authentic; completion makes you responsible; completion makes you enrich yourself and others. This completion arises out of our ability to be complete with the present moment.

The present moment is the only moment when we are truly alive, awake.

Everything is in a state of becoming something else. At every moment we die and are reborn; millions of cells in our body-mind system die every day and are reborn. Yet, through all this change there is continuity. There is a continuity that we cannot see, touch or feel. What we see as manifested, as this body and mind, hides from us the process of constant change that happens within us, as well as the continuous thread that holds the whole process together.

Those who are authentic enough to accept and be complete with the truth of the eternal nature of the spirit are the fortunate, the blessed. Those who fight and grieve are the wretched, the miserable, the incomplete.

You cannot fight life or death. They are both beyond you, out of your control. You can marvel at them and be happy and joyous. Or you can keep questioning and doubting them, and be miserable. This is the choice and free will you have.

It is not death that frightens us. It is leaving our incomplete desires and unlived life that frightens us. The problem is that we do not know how to live a fulfilled life in the space of completion. All our desires are partially fulfilled or incomplete because, before they are fulfilled, we move on to other desires. The hangover of that past incomplete desire continues to chase us as a pattern in the present. The simple fact is that we do not know how to be complete, joyful.

So listen. You cannot entertain any desire in you leaving it incomplete. It will continue to chase you as the tiger and will not let you be complete with anything you do and experience. Only when you complete, integrity, the power of words starts expressing through you.

Start creating the right inner software, the right inner space, by bringing integrity as the principle of life. Integrity means not just fulfilling, but honoring the words you give to others. The first step to in-tegrity is completing with all the negative words you created within you about you and life, and completing all of them.

Listen. Completion means feeling empowered, feeling powerful, without any hangover, without feeling powerless, during and after every situation in your life! If you are powerful, you won't be violent. You will not be in guilt, fear or carry incomplete desires.

Helping each child understand the importance of completion.

Helping each child understand that death should not be grieved but celebrated.

Helping each child realize that they have the choice to fight and grieve or to be happy and joyous.

• ❖ What is a passage that one can look forward to?
• ❖ What makes you integrated, authentic, responsible and enriching?
• ❖ How does completion arise?
• ❖ What happens to us every moment?
• ❖ What happens to those who fight and grieve?
• ❖ What actually frightens us?
• ❖ Why are our desires partially fulfilled or incomplete?
• ❖ How can we fulfill the words we gave to ourselves?
• ❖ How can we start creating the right inner software 11.What does completion mean?

• 1. Pencil
• 2. Chart paper
• 3. Poster colors

Explain to the children that landscape drawing is drawing of natural features (scenery).

Connect them to the fact that with completion you experience a space, where everything goes positive for you

Encourage the children to explain to others not to ignore old people, ignoring old people is a sin. It is a responsibility of each and every individual to take care of old people.

It is our responsibility to take care of everything around us as everything is part of a continuity that we cannot see, touch or feel.

Discuss and Write about a negative experience or problem that you had before. Write the failure you had before and list the thought flow which leads to this.

We are hardly preoccupied with visualizations of our success; we are too busy with negative self fulfilling prophecies because of our past record. Negative patterns serve a vested interest so you keep the negative patterns alive and do not allow life to happen in you. When you created your past record, you did not have the intelligence of looking into the possibility of the possibility. The possibility of the possibility gives you a breakthrough in life.

You have free will. Being joyful or miserable is your choice. Completion makes us feel alive and awake.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

svadharmamapi cāvekṣya na vikampitumarhasi dharmyāddhi yuddhācchreyo'nyat kṣatriyasya na vidyate

You should look at your own responsibility [svadharma] as a kṣatriya. There is nothing higher for a kṣatriya than a righteous war You ought not to hesitate

Svadharma - Fight you are a Ksatriya!

yadṛcchayā copapannaṁ svargadvāramapāvṛtam sukhinaḥ kṣatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddhamīdṛśam

O Pārtha, happy indeed are the kṣatriyas who are called to fight in such a battle without seeking. This opens for them the door to heaven

By fighting as your own responsibility demands, you earn merits and go to heaven.

atha cettvamimaṁ dharmyaṁ sa�…grāmaṁ na kariṣyasi tataḥ svadharmaṁ kīrtiṁ ca hitvā pāpamavāpsyasi

If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will incur sin having abandoned your own responsibility [svadharma], and you will lose your reputation

akīrtiṁ cāpi bhūtāni kathayiṣyanti te'vyayām saṁbhāvitasya cākīrtir maraṇādatiricyate

People too will remember your everlasting dishonor and to one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death

You are responsible for everything happening around you.

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bhayādraṇāduparataṁ maṁsyante tvāṁ mahārathāḥ yeṣāṁ ca tvaṁ bahumato bhūtvā yāsyasi lāghavam

The great generals will think that you have withdrawn from the battle because you are a coward. You will be looked down upon by those who had thought much of you and your heroism in the past

Kṛṣṇa works on Arjuna at two levels. At one level He talks to Arjuna at the super conscious plane educating him on what the ultimate Truth is. He talks to Arjuna about how the undying and indestructible spirit lives on.

Here, Kṛṣṇa addresses Arjuna's fears about killing his svajanam, his relatives, elders and teaches him that what he considers to be the end of life for these people is just one step in their journey.

Kṛṣṇa then descends to the practical level at which Arjuna exists and begins addressing his svadharma, Arjuna' s own dharma, the natural path of his responsibility. Kṛṣṇa explains to Arjuna why, from a societal point of view, he should not run away from the battlefield, but instead, stay onand fight as behaves a warrior.

Kṛṣṇa here addresses Arjuna as kṣatriya, the warrior. In each society there are groups of people who are the designated protectors of that society. They are the warriors, the soldiers, who defend their country and countrymen. In the same manner, there are others who are designated as clerics and priests, as teachers, as businessmen and as workers.

When Kṛṣṇa refers to Arjuna as a kṣatriya, he is referring to the entire personality of Arjuna, the great warrior, which has been decided only partly by birth and mostly by training based on his aptitude.

Arjuna is the quintessential warrior who knows no fear, and yet is now disturbed by issues of whether he is doing right or wrong by fighting against his kinsmen.

• ❖ Helping each child understand svadharma.

• ❖ Helping each child complete with their worries.

• ❖ Helping each child the importance of responsibility.

• ❖ What are the two levels on which Kṛṣṇa gives explanation to Arjuna?

• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa teaching Arjuna in these verses?

• ❖ What is svadharma?

• ❖ How does Kṛṣṇa address Arjuna?

• ❖ What is the responsibility of a kṣatriya?

• ❖ How did Arjuna become a warrior?

• ❖ Why is Arjuna tormented here?

• 1. Paper pencil
• 2. Sketch pen

Explain to the children about inner chatter. Inner chatter is the continuous flow of negative thoughts which did not allow us to be in the present. Ask the children to do the pictorial representation of inner chatter.

Explain to the children that worry is the inner chatter created by negative thoughts. The more the inner chatter, the more we are away from the present.

Encourage children to explain the effects of too much of watching tv. New research reports that adults who watch three or more hours of TV a day have more physical, mental and psychological health problems. Obesity, eye problems, poor grades, distractions etc are a few of the many problems caused in children and adults.

Encourage the children to do the SDK. Ask them to visualize and write down the incidents in their lives where they felt depression. They can write as many incidents as they can.

• 1. Sit and visualize and then relive them in your inner space and relieve them from your lives.
• 2. Do this at least 5 times or till you stop seeing the effect of those past thoughts on your life.
• 3. Then relive them using the mirror and relieve those thoughts using the mirror where you are just a mere spectator and the past is like a movie running in the mirror
• 4. Then sit with 5 other people individually and go on sharing with them. These five people can be your father, mother, sibling and friends.
• 3. Listen to the completion stories of at least five other people. Teaching Samaskara Dahana Kriya, making people do Samskara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful way of spreading global peace.

Most things die down or disappear over time. Anything created out of the space of completion stands eternally.

Those children who cannot write can draw the incidents or an adult can help them to pen down the incidents.

Encourage the children first discuss incidents where they forgot, then guide them to do the SDK. Ask them to visualize and write down the incidents in their lives where they forgot. They can write as many incidents as they can**.**

• 1. Sit and visualize and then relive them in your inner space and relieve them from your lives.
• 2. Do this at least 5 times or till you stop seeing the effect of those past thoughts on your life.
• 3. Then relive them using the mirror and relieve those thoughts using the mirror where you are just a mere spectator and the past is like a movie running in the mirror
• 4. Then sit with 5 other people individually and go on sharing with them. These five people can be your father, mother, sibling and friends.
• 5. Listen to the completion stories of at least five other people. Teaching Samaskara Dahana Kriya, making people do Samskara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful way of spreading global peace.

To move your body, or to move your mind, decide to take the responsibility, decide to declare completion, decide to declare positivity and possibility. Take responsibility and transformation is a peaceful happening, remove the root pattern of forgetting.

Those children who cannot write can draw the incidents or an adult can help them to pen down the incidents.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

hato vā prāpsyasi svargaṁ jitvā vā bhokṣyase mahīm tasmāduttiṣṭha kaunteya yuddhāya kṛtaniścayaḥ

Slain, you will achieve heaven; victorious, you will enjoy the earth. O Kaunteya (son of Kuntī), stand up determined to fight

Responsibility directly leads you to leadership consciousness.

sukhaduḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṁ pāpamavāpsyasi

Pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat – treat them all the same. Do battle for the sake of battle and you shall incur no sin

We all know death is inevitable.

Do not worry about victory or defeat. If you are defeated and slain you will ascend to heaven. If you are victorious, you will enjoy material benefits in this world itself.

Therefore, O Kaunteya, fight as it is your responsibility as a kṣatriya.' Kṛṣṇa says to treat pain and pleasure, gain and loss, victory and defeat all the same. He says to fight without worrying about the outcome. To fight is your responsibility. You shall incur no sin.

When the Paramātma—supreme Soul says this, it means that Arjuna does not have to worry about right and wrong, about sin or merit. Isn't fighting, isn't killing people a sin, you may ask. Then why is it that Kṛṣṇa encourages Arjuna, not merely encourages, but actually forces Arjuna to fight and kill? What is the operative logic here, you may ask.

There is no logic. Kṛṣṇa's exhortation is beyond human rationale. It is not what you do that matters; it is who you are being that matters. It is your space that matters. Whether you are being complete or incomplete matters. An Enlightened Master can do no wrong even if he kills, because when he kills, it would be with completion, not with compulsion for personal benefit. On the other hand, any average person with incompletions, even while doing an act of kindness, he may be doing something wrong.

Kṛṣṇa is not worried about what you do, He is concerned only about who you are being. If your actions are from completion, if they are innocent of motives, whatever you do is right.

If what you do is motivated by patterns of fear and greed, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat, you can do nothing right. Whatever you do for gain is sinful. Understand, if the gap between who you are and who you want to be is without responsibility, it is greed. If it is with responsibility, it is possibility! When there is no responsibility-bridge, it is greed. When you are building the responsibility-bridge to achieve what you want to be, then it becomes a possibility; it is no more greed!

Kṛṣṇa is enriching Arjuna with the bridge of responsibility to expand Arjuna's shrinking identity as a kṣatriya. Even Śrī Rāma had to build the bridge to reach Sītā! When you add responsibility to greed, the gap suddenly reduces. The gap reduces drastically! Responsibility infused into thinking removes the agitation and disconnection with you.

We always feel that responsibility is a burden. NO! It is a power!

Responsibility directly leads you to leadership consciousness.

As long as you feel responsible only for your family, you remain as the head of your family. When you feel responsible for the community, you become a leader of the community. As your feeling of responsibility expands, your leadership quality also expands. The decision to feel responsible for the whole Cosmos is Enlightenment!

Feeling responsible for the Whole and declaring to live by your feeling is responsible declaration, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nididhyāsana.

Responsible declaration unlocks the power of feeling, prema śakti in you.

Understand the science of feeling. You can feel anything as joy or anything as pain—it is your freedom! Even the greatest achievement can bring pain to you, and even the worst experience can be a joyful learning. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel!

Listen: whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your suffering pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways! When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful—because nothing can make you powerless. So, empower yourself with responsibility and unlock the power of feeling.

By unlocking the power of feeling, you will always act from a space of power and completion and start focusing on the solution, not the problem; without worrying about its outcome. As Kṛṣṇa says, you will begin holding success and failure, pain and pleasure the same and just fulfill your responsible declaration. With responsibility, your inner space expands and opens up new possibilities and you gain higher control of your life.

Ultimately, you raise yourself to the next level of success and evolve into a new being. In these verses, Kṛṣṇa is trying to bring Arjuna out of his root pattern, his dilemma, which has obscured his normally clear vision. Kṛṣṇa is trying to get Arjuna to transcend his conditioned actions based on fear and greed relating to the killing of his kinsmen, his svajanam. He is getting him to act out of completion, out of his svadharmam, without worrying about the outcome.

• ✓ Helping each child understand the importance of completion.

• ✓ Helping each child understand that death should not be grieved but celebrated.

• ✓ Helping each child realize that they have the choice to fight and grieve or to be happy and joyous.

• ❖ What is the difference between greed and possibility?

• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa concerned about?

• ❖ Why is Kṛṣṇa enriching Arjuna with the bridge of responsibility?

• ❖ How to achieve leadership consciousness?

• ❖ What is Enlightenment?

• ❖ What kind of declaration unlocks the power of feeling?

• ❖ What happens when you unlock the power of feeling?

• ❖ What happens to your inner space when you decide to take responsibility?

• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa trying to do through these verses?

• 1. Pen
• 2. Pencil or sketch pen
• 3. Eraser
• 4. Calligraphy pen

Kids can draw a picture outline, using pencil. Using a line drawing pen fill the picture. Ask the kids to erase the pencil outline, the lines inside the picture will show up the image. Kids can learn to draw a line without using a scale. If it is a light shade draw less line, if it is a dark shade then draw more lines. In this line drawing, kids can understand how to use lines, to show light and dark shades.

Connect them to the concept as to how the line transforms into a figure. Similarly transformation is a happening, you have to decide that it should happen. You have the power to decide for transformation to happen in you.

• ❖ 2 Magnets ❖ piece of paper piece of metal Encourage children to explain the effects of too much of watching tv. New research reports that adults who watch three or more hours of TV a day have more physical, mental and psychological health problems. Obesity, eye problems, poor grades, distractions etc are a few of the many problems caused in children and adults..

This is a simple way to show the representation of energy.

What is energy? We have discussed positive and negative emotions and we know that every second of every day we have a choice between doing something good or bad. But, if you are always thinking positive, you will automatically give off positive energy because it is coming from inside! Show the two magnets; explain the force that draws the other magnet to it.

Question: Have you ever noticed how happy and joyful people have a lot of friends? A happy face makes people feel welcome, they want to be near you because it makes them happy, and others will be drawn to you like a magnet. We have a magnet as well, in our inner space. When we are filled with positive energy we attract more positive things, right people and right choices.

When we are open all the energy flows through from one magnet to another making it beautiful and experiencing more energy. When we are closed with our emotions we close the energy layers and then we have health issues.

Those children who cannot write can draw the incidents or an adult can help them to pen down the incidents.

Pen or pencil paper

Sit in silence for 11 minutes and provide listening to your inner space. After 11 minutes, open your eyes and write down everything that comes up in your inner space. Discuss about what has come up and how you felt during and after the meditation

Listening is life. Answers penetrate the being only when the being is in the space of listening. Understanding the divinity of Kṛṣṇa is a step to intranalysing and living one's own divinity

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

eṣā tebhihitā sānkhye buddhiryoge tvimāṁ śṛṇu buddhyā yukto yayā pārtha karmabandhaṁ prahāsyasi

Thus far, what has been taught to you concerns the wisdom of Sā�…khya Now, listen to the wisdom of yoga [buddhiyoga]. Having known this, O Pārtha, you shall cast off the bonds of action

Kṛṣṇa's authority as He speaks these words is compelling.

nehābhikrama-nāśo 'sti pratyavāyo na vidyate svalpamapyasya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt

There is no wasted effort or dangerous effect in this path of yoga. Even a little knowledge of this, even a little practice of this dharma, protects and releases one from very great fear

Seek the firm truth of the Infinite, the Union, that is Yoga.

vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kurunandana bahuśākhā hyanantāś ca buddhayovyavasāyinām

Joy of the Kurus, on this path (of yoga). the intelligence is resolute with a single-pointed determination. Thoughts of the irresolute are many, branched and endless.

Go beyond duality. Seek the firm truth of the Infinite, the Union, that is Yoga.

'Kṛṣṇa begins His teachings of karma yoga to Arjuna in these verses. These verses should be read carefully by those who believe solely in scriptural authority, based on their superficial understanding of what has been said. Kṛṣṇa unequivocally says here, 'Forget the Vedas.'

He says, 'All the knowledge contained in the Vedas is of as much use as water in a flood to one who has realized himself. The Vedas are limiting; they concern the three attributes, satva, rajas and tamas, the attributes of calmness, aggressive action and lazy inaction. The time has come now to move beyond these attributes; at least move from rajas into the state of satva, calmness.'

Do not quote to Me what the scriptures say,' Kṛṣṇa says. He continues, 'Do not tell me about what you should do and should not do through rituals and practices that will please the deities and ancestors so that you will benefit materially in this life, and spiritually in some after-life. All this is for people with limited understanding of their own Self, who have not experienced the Truth, who still hanker for sensual pleasures and name and fame.'

'Move beyond them to the single-pointed determination of yoga that I shall teach you,' Kṛṣṇa says, 'and be established in a state where you are no longer concerned about creation, preservation and destruction. You will be beyond these and reach the state of Parabrahman.'

Only the Master of the Universe, can say such things and get away with it! Kṛṣṇa' s authority as He speaks these words is compelling.

He is casting away the divinely transmitted scriptures, the Vedas, to instill truth in the inner space of Arjuna. It is the truth as spoken by the Divine who Himself has all the knowledge contained in the Vedas.

Make the children aware of the idea of facing fear, having courage and being fearless.

• What is Kṛṣṇa beginning to teach Arjuna in these verses?
• Who should carefully read these verses?
• What are the three attributes the Vedas are concerned about? Why is Kṛṣṇa casting away the Vedas?

• 1. Color crayons
• 2. Scary picture

Give each child a scary picture and ask them to color the picture with different color crayons. Let them visualize the scary thing and ask them how they feel, what is going on in them. Where do they feel the fear in their body?

Bringing awareness to the fear relieves from fear.

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• 1. Colored chalk
• 2. White paper or floor surface

Use the chalk to scribble furiously on the floor. If they take their hand off from the floor, remove the chalk. The idea is to scribble in one go with all their fear and energy until the whole piece of chalk is gone into dust. After the children finish, ask them how they feel. It is like a stress reliever, it leaves them feeling empty and free of fear.

Experience removes fear from our lives and hearts. Even just a little practice relieves from great fear.

MATERIALS NEEDED: Pen or pencil paper

Ask each child/teenager to just sit for one hour today. Discuss as a team any incident where they have received knowledge but have bot experimented with it. Then Write at least ten incidents, surely each one can write ten incidents. No need to write from the whole life. Right from morning till today each one can write ten incidents. Ten incidents where they have received knowledge but have not experimented with it. Then, ask the children/teenagers to discuss why knowledge is incomplete without experience of it.

Conclude by reiterating the importance to experience the Truths.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

yāmimāṁ puṣpitāṁ vācaṁ pravadantyavipaścitaḥ vedavādaratāḥ pārtha nānyadastīti vādinaḥ

Men of little knowledge, who are very much attached to eulogizing the flowery words of the Vedas, O Pārtha, argue that, 'there is nothing else' ; these advocates of Vedas (vādīna)

ALL is INFINITE.

kāmātmānaḥ svargaparā janmakarmaphalapradām kriyā-viśeṣabahulāṁ bhogaiśvarya-gatiṁ prati

Look upon and recommend various fruitful actions for elevation to heavenly planets, resulting in high birth, power, and so forth. Thus being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life they say that there is nothing more than this to living

Śruti meaning, 'that which was heard internally, not as an external expression.

bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛtacetasām vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate

Those whose minds are attached to sense pleasures and lordship,, who are diverted by such teachings, for them, the determination for steady meditation and samādhi, fixed intelligence does not happen

Experiential knowledge.

traiguṇyaviṣayā vedā nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna nirdvandvo nityas-attva-stho niryogakṣema ātmavān

O Arjuna! Be you above the three guṇas (attributes) that the Vedas deal in: free yourself from the pairs-of-opposites and be always in satva (goodness), free from all thoughts of acquisition (yoga) or preservation (kṣema), and be established in the Self

Be established in a state where you are no longer concerned about creation, preservation and destruction

yāvānartha udapāne sarvataḥ saṁplutodake tāvānsarveṣu vedeṣu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ

The Brāhmaṇa (sage), who has known the Self, has little use for the vedic scriptures, as these are like a pool of water in a place that is already in flood, overflowing with a great water reservoir

The state of Parabrahman.

The Vedas, the collection of knowledge as directly experienced by the great sages, the Ṛṣis, was conveyed for generations by word of mouth and was referred to as Śruti meaning, 'that which was heard internally, not as an external expression.'

The moment an experience is expressed, it is no longer the truth of that experience. All the great scriptures, Vedas, Upaniṣads and Gītā, exist at different levels of understanding, seven levels, to be precise, depending on the energy level that one dwells in. At the highest level one understands that all that there is, is INFINITE, each one infinitely powerful. There is no experiencer, experienced or experience as separate entities at the highest energy level;

Kṛṣṇa refers to that truth here in these verses, the truth of the highest energy. 'Do not be carried away by the apparent ritualistic approach of the Vedas as propounded by half learned scholars,' the Master says, 'go beyond; go beyond duality, nirdvando. All these seem to bring joy but are transient; that joy is the brief intermission between periods of sorrow. Go beyond the three attributes, nistrai-guṇyo bhavārjuna and seek the firm truth of the Infinite, the Union, that is Yoga,' He says to Arjuna.

'Kṛṣṇa finally says, 'Once you understand and realize Brahman, all the knowledge of the Vedas that you quote so passionately, will be of as much relevance to you as a lake in the midst of an ocean.' Kṛṣṇa is leading Arjuna step by step as if teaching a baby to walk. One by one the Master demolishes Arjuna's conflicting patterns, arguments and fears, dispelling his dilemma. These first baby steps address Arjuna's intellect, for that's all Arjuna has been using till now. Kṛṣṇa shows Arjuna how meaningless his intellectual knowledge is. It is all borrowed, with no experiential backing. He now leads him into experiential knowledge.

Helping each child move from intellectual knowledge to experience.

• ❖ What happens the moment an experience is expressed?
• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa demolishing?
• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa showing Arjuna?
• ❖ Why is Arjuna's intellectual knowledge meaningless?
• ❖ What is Kṛṣṇa leading Arjuna toward?

Listen. Completion means feeling empowered, feeling powerful, without any hangover, without feeling powerless, during and after every situation in your life! If you are powerful, you won't be violent. You will not be in guilt, fear or carry incomplete desires.

• 1. Paper Pen
• 2. Sketch pen or pencil

Encourage the children to create their own designs using different patterns. They can exhibit their creativity by creating more designs

Opening without restriction with creativity is happiness. When you relax from the identity that you project to the outer world, to show who you are to others—it is called the first experience. Relaxing from the second identity that you carry in your inner world to prove who you are to yourself is what is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is a state to be experienced.

• 1. Pen
• 2. Paper.

Have enough pencils for everyone and 1 paper for each and tell them to hold their friend's hand and write or draw using their friend's hand. Each child has to hold their friend's hand and write or draw using their friend's hand. This activity needs lots of coordination between the child and his friend.

As this activity needs a lot of coordination and concentration, this enables them to focus, being in the now, to unclutch the past previous thoughts, helping others and being responsible for others achievement. Unclutching leads into experiential knowledge.

Engage into a discussion about how to move from intellectual knowledge to experiential knowledge. Ask each child/teenager to think about something that they know intellectually and help them find a way to teach it to others so that others will gain an experience.

Intellectual knowledge is useless without experiential knowledge.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana mā karmaphalaheturbhūr mā te sa�…go 'stvakarmaṇi

You have a right only to work, but never to the fruits (outcome) of action Never let the fruit of action be your motive and never let your attachment be to i naction

Success is natural.

yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi sa�…gaṁ tyaktvā dhanañjaya siddhyasiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṁ yoga ucyate O

Dhanañjaya! Do your actions dropping all attachment to the outcome, being centered and complete in Yoga. Be balanced in success and failure. Such evenness of mind is Yoga

Yoga is completion with the Divine.

Kṛṣṇa says, 'You have the right and responsibility to work. You have no responsibility or right to the results of that work. Do not focus on the result and make it either a pattern of greed to chase or fear to stay away from. Do what you have to do with a centered mind, a complete inner space without worrying about whether you will succeed or fail.

One of the biggest problems human beings have is this—you love to be successful, but you deeply believe that you are a failure. This is one of the biggest paradoxes. This shows the lack of integrity in yourthinking. Understand, some of your actions may be a failure, some of your decisions or dimensions may be a failure, but YOU are never failure, because you are still breathing!

Listen. Awareness of what Kṛṣṇa says here is the solution to all our day-to-day problems. Do what you have to do as your right and responsibility, without worrying about the results. Do not act with hopes of a certain reward. Do not stop doing what you need to do because you are afraid of what may lie ahead.

Constantly bring integrity to your thinking, authenticity to your feeling, responsibility to your actions, enriching to your lifestyle! You will see, you will realize an extraordinary space in your life, what Kṛṣṇa calls as being balanced in success and failure and being complete in yoga.

With integrity, you will literally clean your inner space of the constant unwanted beliefs that you carry, like the strong belief that you will be a failure.

This continuous belief holds you from taking responsibility for your actions, makes you worry about the results, and leads you towards failure! When you start thinking with integrity, you will diagnose those self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly give to yourself.

Listen. When you take responsibility with authenticity, consciousness starts growing more intensely in the body! Shrinking does not happen. Bring integrity; you will understand that success is the natural flow of your life.

You are not in integrity with yourself, when you say one thing and do another. But, when your talk is in integrity and authenticity, then your words will become reality. You will have vāk siddhi—the power to manifest your word as reality! But if the talk itself is lacking integrity, then your actions will also be out-of- integrity and you lose self-confidence.

Integrity is the first lesson of spiritual life. If you bring integrity to your inner space, you will realize that you are attracting everything in your life, whether it is wealth or poverty, right or wrong. You are responsible for your life.

When you are in completion, with integrity, without internal conflict or contradictions, whatever you project on the cosmos is a project for the cosmos! Simply cosmos does it. That is the power of integrity!

Yoga is your realization of your own Self, your realization that you are divine. It is the state of completion, the state of truth, the state of the present, when all that you do will be in righteous consciousness, dharma.

So, do not link thoughts and create a shaft of thoughts. Unclutch from your thoughts by bringing integrity and weed out all your negative self- fulfilling patterns. Listen! Constantly listening to your own inner space is the beginning of integrity. If your inner space says that there is nothing more to listen, if only silence is there, then that is the end of integrity. As long as you are hearing something from your inner space, it is lack of integrity. Go on listening. Even while you are in action, karma— sitting, driving, talking or walking, listen to you. Integrity is the basic requirement for Unclutching. When you are in a state of an unclutched inner space, you are in completion and you are in the present moment, where regrets of your past and expectations of the future are absent from your mind. Whatever you do in such a state of completion would be the right thing to do. You are not influenced either by fear or greed regarding the outcome. You do what you have to do, naturally.

❖ Helping each child understand the power of integrity.

❖ Helping the children understand that real success comes from the state of unclutching and the space of completion.

❖ Helping the children come to a space of listening.

• ❖ What is one of the biggest problems human face?

• ❖ What is the solution to our day-to-day problems?

• ❖ What does integrity teach?

• ❖ What is vāk siddhi?

• ❖ How does cosmos react when you are in completion?

• ❖ Define yoga.

• ❖ When does suffering happen?

• ❖ How can you tell that there is a lack of integrity in you?

• ❖ What is the connection between integrity and unclutching?

• ❖ What is the connection between completion and unclutching?

• 1. Carbon paper
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Plain sheet
• 4. Picture to trace

• Give each child two plain papers, a carbon sheet and a picture.
• First have each child draw the picture on their own on the paper.
• Then, guide the child to place a carbon sheet in the right position, placing the ink side on the paper and trace the paper.
• Show them the impressions seen on the white sheet. Ask each child to draw directly on paper and then with a carbon sheet and compare the two.

After the carbon tracing activity, we can clearly differentiate which is done directly on the paper and which is done with carbon paper. Similarly the brain established in integrity can separate truth from untruth.

Integrity cleanses your inner space of unwanted beliefs.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pen or Pencil

Students will need to listen to each other closely and listen for what's out of place in this activity. Divide students into pairs or groups and give each a unique, slightly odd secret phrase; for example, "three happy elves live in my basement." Get them to plan a dialogue that incorporates the secret phrase once or twice. When they've finished planning, let them perform the dialogue for the class. While watching, students try to guess the secret phrase and write it down accurately; they must also write how many times it was said. Give points to students who found the phrase and its repetitions. The student with the most points is the winner.

Constantly listening to your own inner space is the beginning of integrity.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pen or Pencil

For 21 minutes, ask the children/ teenagers to sit in silence with a pen and paper and to make a list of all the words they have given to themselves and to others and haven't fulfilled. Then, ask them to discuss concrete steps they will take to fulfill their words now or help them complete. Give them 24 hours to actually do the steps they have shared in the group and ask them to write a short essay telling about it.

When you are in completion and operating from integrity, cosmos obeys you. Integrity brings completion and creates an unclutched inner space, which makes the being most active and engaged with life.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

dūreṇa hyavaraṁ karma buddhiyogād dhanañjaya buddhau śaraṇamanviccha kṛpaṇāḥ phalahetavaḥ

O Dhanañjaya, beyond the action with selfish motive is Yoga (of action) in wisdom [buddhiyoga]. Wretched are those whose motive is the fruit (outcome) Surrender yourself fully to the wisdom of completion

Stand up with the courage of authenticity in all actions.

buddhiyukto jahātīha ubhe sukṛtaduṣkṛte tasmādyogāya yujyasva yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam

Endowed with the wisdom of evenness of mind, move away from both good and evil deeds in this life. Devote yourself to yoga. Authenticity in action is yoga

Authenticity in action is yoga.

karmajaṁ buddhiyuktā hi phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ janmabandhavinirmuktāḥ padaṁ gacchantyanāmayam

The wise, having abandoned the outcome of their actions and possessed of knowledge of completion, are freed from the cycle of birth and death. They go to the state that is beyond all sorrow

Stay fully in the space of completion, and based on the truth of integrity and authenticity, act.

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yadā te mohakalilaṁ buddhirvyatitariṣyati tadā gantāsi nirvedaṁ śrotavyasya śrutasya ca

When your wisdom takes you beyond delusion, you shall be indifferent to what has been heard and what is yet to be heard

Pick up authenticity as your strategy plan in every moment of your life.

śrutivipratipannā te yadā sthāsyati niścalā samādhāvacalā buddhis tadā yogamavāpsyasi

When you are not confused by what you have heard and your wisdom stands steady and unmoving in the Self, you shall attain Yoga, Self– realization

Surrender yourself to practice integrity in thinking and authenticity in action.

Kṛṣṇa begins revealing the truth of authenticity, the strategy of life, the strategy that will make Arjuna succeed and expand!

Authenticity is you being established in the peak of your energy, the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive yourself to be for you and who you project yourself to be for others, and what others expect you to be for them.

Kṛṣṇa gives the ultimate winning strategy of life to Arjuna—to stand up with the courage of authenticity in all his actions, yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam. Arjuna can complete his root pattern of fear, only when he raises and expands himself fighting as a kṣatriya warrior.

Only then Arjuna will be authentic. Listen. Life is expansion. Life is expansion. When you feel, 'Wow, I am going to expand, expand, expand! Authenticity is the best principle,' then understand, you are entering into akśardhām eternal life!

Break the pattern of—' am I never going to rest or what?' Why do you need rest? Increasing the speed of running is rest. Make it into flying! That is rest. You see, when you drive or run on the road, there is friction. If you want bliss, joy, peace, don't reduce the speed of life; reduce the friction. Just take off!

Kṛṣṇa adds, 'When you are centered in wisdom of completion you will no longer be deluded by what you hear. When you are no longer deluded by what you have heard, you are liberated.

Kṛṣṇa says, 'Don't be inactive, do what you need to do. Do it with no expectations and no attachment to results. Do it with a centered mind, and in wisdom of your own inner calling, and not because of something you have heard. You will then go beyond all suffering and be liberated.'

These steps are so simple that everyone can practice them; in fact everyone should practice them. Stay fully in the space of completion, and based on the truth of integrity and authenticity, act. You can never go wrong.

Listen. With integrity you experience the space of positivity. With authenticity you experience the space of possibility. Only a man who lives authenticity is a liberated one, a yogi, the one devoted to authenticity in action. Only when you surrender yourself to practice integrity in thinking and authenticity in action— yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam, you will realize that you are responsible for success and fail-ure, for good or bad, for everything you experience. You drop your attachments and your fear patterns, and experience self-realization.

❖ Helping the children align to the principle of authenticity.

❖ Helping each child connect to their inner wisdom through completion.

❖ Helping each shield go beyond attachments.

❖ Helping each child bring integrity in their thinking and authenticity in their action.

❖ Helping each child go beyond the fear of saying or doing something wrong.

• ❖ What is authenticity?
• ❖ What is the ultimate winning strategy of life that Kṛṣṇa gives to Arjuna?
• ❖ How can Arjuna complete with this root pattern of fear?
• ❖ How do you know whether or not you have entered eternal life?
• ❖ What is the pattern that needs to break in order for life to overflow in you?
• ❖ Why is being centered in the wisdom of completion important?
• ❖ What space opens up when you practice integrity?
• ❖ What space opens up when you practice authenticity?
• ❖ What will happen when you surrender yourself to practice integrity in thinking and authenticity in action?

• 1. Pen
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Paper
• 4. Eraser

Ask the children to draw the toy they are most attached to and to share what they like about it with others. Once they are all done sharing, ask them to give the drawing to another child as if they were letting go of the actual toy. You drop your attachments and your fear patterns, and experience self-realization.

By letting go of the drawing, the child learns that self-realization happens when we reach the space of completion, beyond fears and attachments. End the activity by reiterating the importance of completing with fears and attachments.

Ask children to pair up and recreate the scene where Kṛṣṇa is speaking to Arjuna based on their understanding of the lesson. Give them some time to rehearse and then ask them to present in front of the class.

Whether your understanding is complete or not, engaging in action without being bothered about the result will infuse authenticity in you.Ask the children to share about their experience of expressing authentically

MATERIALS NEEDED: Paper, Pen or Pencil.

Discuss what outer image is, what are their ideas of examples of outer image. Ask the children/teenagers to ask five people who are close to them to share how they perceive them (outer image). Then ask the children/teenagers to look in and see if the expectations others have of them are aligned to how they feel about themselves and to what they project to others. Tell them to write a short essay and to share with others about any gaps they perceive.

CONCLUSION Authenticity makes us enter into eternal life.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

arjuna uvāca sthitaprajñasya kā bhāṣā samādhisthasya keśava sthitadhīḥ kiṁ prabhāṣeta kimāsīta vrajeta kim

O Keśava! What is the description of one who stays in the space of completion in present moment and is merged in the restful awareness of truth and wisdom? How does one of steady wisdom speak, how does he sit, how does he walk?

You are the microcosmic hologram of the macrocosmic diagram.

śrībhagavānuvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvānpārtha manogatān ātmanyevātmanā tuṣṭaḥ sthitaprajñastadocyate

Śrī Bhagavān says: O Pārtha, a man who casts off completely all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, He is said to be Sthhitaprajña, one of steady wisdom in completion

We too are the brahmā�…da, Universe.

duḥkheṣv anudvigna-manāḥ sukheṣu vigataspṛhaḥ vītarāgabhayakrodhaḥ sthitadhīrmunirucyate

He whose mind is not disturbed by adversity and who, in prosperity, does not go after other pleasures, he who is free from attachment, fear or anger is called a sage of steady wisdom

We can have all that we need as all that belongs to the Universe belongs to us also.

Arjuna is now curious and wants to know more. He asks Kṛṣṇa, 'You are telling me all this, that is wonderful. You tell me that I must perform without expectations and attachment and that I must be complete in wisdom. I would like to live that way and move on the path of wisdom. Pray, tell me what kind of a person is this, the one who always stays in the steady space of completion

How does he behave, walk and talk? Let me model myself on him.'

For the fifth time Arjuna expresses authentic interest in what Kṛṣṇa is saying. Arjuna has realized that whatever he said earlier had arisen from his confusion, his patterns. Arjuna is intelligent enough to know that he does not know.

When Kṛṣṇa tells him to behave in a manner befitting the code of the warriors, this piece of advice certainly makes good sense to Arjuna. However, what Kṛṣṇa says further confuses Arjuna. Kṛṣṇa says to do what you have to do without being concerned about the outcome. This is a strange idea to Arjuna. He has rarely done anything in his life without thinking about the result of his action.

Arjuna, the greatest of marksmen, is conditioned with the pattern to first define his target and then act. Kṛṣṇa has confused him totally now. Kṛṣṇa says, 'Release your arrow; where it lands is my business.' At least, this is how Arjuna understands what Kṛṣṇa says. Arjuna has enough trust in

Kṛṣṇa not to ignore this instruction from the Divine. So he asks, 'Tell me who is it who acts without any interest in the outcome? Who is it who is not concerned about the result, whether it is good or bad, painful or joyful, and how do I identify such a person?'

Kṛṣṇa responds, 'This man is free from desires and emotions. He has neither greed nor fear. He has no patterns. He is always complete in himself. Pleasures through the senses do not interest him. He has withdrawn his senses from the external or outer world and has integrated them inwards into his inner space, directed them towards that Supreme. Truth that is beyond all pleasures, attachments, emotions and sense objects.' Kṛṣṇa thus describes the Realized Yogi, the Sthitaprajña to Arjuna so that he too may emulate him and realize himself.

• ❖ Why is Arjuna confused?
• ❖ What is the pattern Arjuna has been conditioned with?
• ❖ How is the man who is free from desires and emotions?
• ❖ In which direction does the Realized Yogi direct his senses?
• ❖ Why does Kṛṣṇa describe the Realized Yogi to Arjuna?

• 1. Pen
• 2. Markers
• 3. Paper

Based on the description given by Kṛṣṇa, ask the children to draw themselves as the Realized Yogi/Yogini.

This man is free from desires and emotions. He has neither greed nor fear. He has no patterns. He is always complete in himself. Pleasures through the senses do not interest him. He has withdrawn his senses from the external or outer world and has integrated them inwards into his inner space, directed them towards that Supreme. Truth that is beyond all pleasures, attachments, emotions and sense objects."Just like Arjuna, you can also be a Realized Yogi.

Encourage each child to sit in a circle. Each child will get turns to answer the questions but they have to answer the questions with illogical statements.

Answering illogical statements, answering with unknown can be connected to fear. Fear is created by unknown. We can relate this game to the concept of fear. Reiterate the importance of going beyond fear.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pen or Pencil

iscuss Ask the children/teenagers to make three columns: 1) "desires" , 2) "fear" and the 3) is "the first time I felt this desire or fear". Ask them to contemplate and do their best to fill them. Then guide them into the completion process by asking them to relive and relieve those moments of intense desire and fear. At the end, ask them to write a paragraph about their experience.

The Realized Yogi is established in truth that is beyond all pleasures, attachments, emotions and sense objects.

-BH BO A OK G I A I, V V O A LU D ME G XI I V TA

When You Take Responsibility, Everything Happens

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas tat tat prāpya śubhāśubham nābhinandati na dveṣṭi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā

His wisdom is fixed who is everywhere without attachment meeting with anything good or bad and who neither rejoices nor hates

Be fully in integrity with that object of enjoyment and with all your senses integrated only on that activity.

yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo '�…gānīva sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā

As the tortoise withdraws its limbs from all sides when a person withdraws his senses from the senseobjects, his wisdom becomes steady in completion

The Universal energy guides you in your decision when you take responsibility.

viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasavarjaṁ raso'pyasya paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate

From the body, the sense objects turn away, but the desires remain; his desires also leave him on seeing the Supreme

Everything is realized when you take responsibility.

Nirmohatve niścalatatvaṁ,' says Ādī Śa�…karācārya, taking a cue from the Master. It means: Absence of desires leads to a clear and still mind and inner space, steeped in the wisdom of completion. When there are no desires, there are no emotions such as joy, depression, sadness, anger, disappointment, jealousy that normally arise from the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of such desires. When the mind is without fear and anger, without expectations of success and failure, the unattached mind seeks that which is unattached. First the objects drop, then the desire for the objects disappears as truth dawns. This may sound complicated, but is as simple as counting '1, 2, 3.'

Kṛṣṇa aptly provides the analogy of the tortoise, kurma to illustrate how to withdraw one's senses inwards and how to be centered and steady in wisdom of completion in the Self, tasya prajñā pratiṣthitā (2.58). Its entire cycle of life is tuned to the wisdom of nature. An animal, when it indulges in any act, whether of mating, caring, killing or saving its own life, does all and any of these with tremendous focus. The animal always lives in its present moment. Not so the human. For the human, where his body is his mind never is.

You are responsible for everything. If you feel that you are poor, take responsibility for it. If you feel that you are sick, take responsibility for it. Responsibility makes everything, from an ordinary desire to have a good meal tomorrow to your desire to be in desirelessness become a reality.

Everything is realized when you take responsibility. When have you last done anything whatsoever with complete integrity? When were you integrated only to the food that you ate, instead of chatting, reading, and watching? You may say that we are only human, we wish to enjoy life and we wish to enjoy sensual pleasures. Please do! However, when you enjoy, enjoy fully. Be fully in integrity with that object of enjoyment and with all your senses integrated only on that activity. When you do whatever you do with one hundred percent integrity, authenticity and responsibility, you are in the space of completion. You become God!

Helping each child understand how to be established in wisdom of completion.

Helping each child understand that the whole cosmos resides inside of them.

Helping the child see the benefits of taking responsibility for everything.

• ❖ What is the science on which the Universe functions?
• ❖ Who is the Universe responsible for?
• ❖ What is each and everyone of us responsible for?
• ❖ What happens when we feel responsible for existence?
• ❖ What is the best way to know our real present needs?
• ❖ What happens when you act with one hundred percent integrity, authenticity and responsibility

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• 1. Pen
• 2. pencils
• 3. Paper
• 4. Crayons
• 5. Glue
• 6. Sparkles

Ask the children to draw themselves in a way that takes the whole page and then ask them to draw the whole cosmos within themselves.

Whatever is in the macrocosm—the whole Universe, is also there inside your body—the microcosm! If you dissect, dissect, and go into a small atom, the brahmā�…da (macrocosm) will be there in pinḍā�…da (microcosm). Whatever is there in the pinḍā�…da is there in the brahmā�…da.Reiterate the importance of understanding that we reside within the universe and that the universe resides within us.

Ask the children to lay on the ground and to become a tortoise with their arms and legs spread out and ask them to move around for a few minutes. Then, ask them to stop and to quickly bring their arms and legs in, just like a tortoise would do when hiding in its shell. Ask the children to share about their experience.

Withdrawing one's senses inwards centers the being in the wisdom of completion in the Self. Reiterate the importance of living in the space of completion..

Ask the children/teenagers to engage in a discussion about incidents where they have decided not to take responsibility because they felt that the responsibility belonged to someone else. Ask them to discuss about what happens when we take responsibility for everything versus when we feel that we are not responsible.

When you are in the space of completion, you become God.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

yatato hyapi kaunteya puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṁ manaḥ

O Kaunteya (son of Kuntī), the turbulent senses carry away the mind of a wise man, though he is striving to be in control

Bring integrity to your thinking by doing completion with your root patterns

tāni sarvāṇi saṁyamya yukta āsīta matparaḥ vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñāpratiṣṭhitā

Having restrained them all, he should sit steadfast, intent on Me. His mind is steady in the present whose senses are under control

By fighting as your own responsibility demands, you earn merits and go to heaven.

dhyāyato viṣayānpuṁsaḥ sa�…gasteṣūpajāyate sa�…gātsañjāyate kāmaḥ kāmātkrodhobhijāyate

When a man thinks of objects, it gives rise to attachment for them. From attachment, desire arises; from desire, anger is born

Complete, for the bliss of completion.

krodhād bhavati saṁmohaḥ saṁmohāt smṛtivibhramaḥ smṛtibhraṁśād buddhināśo buddhināśātpraṇaśyati

From anger arises delusion, from delusion, loss of memory, from loss of memory, the destruction of discrimination, from destruction of discrimination, he perishes

Be Complete in the Present Moment

Kṛṣṇa continues to explain to Arjuna how difficult it is to control the senses and what happens when one loses control of the senses.

A man, intent on spiritual progress, went to a master and begged him to teach him how to control his mind.

The master tried to explain that the mind couldn't be controlled in the way he was seeking, by stopping his thoughts, but he wouldn't listen.

Fed up, the master gave him a bottle of a liquid and told him to drink three drops three times a day. The man asked, 'That's it? It will control my mind? 'The master said, 'Just one thing, make sure you don't think of a monkey when you drink the medicine. ''Oh, sure, quite simple!' said the man as he walked out.

At the door he turned and asked, 'By the way, in case I do think of a monkey, what should I do?

You can never destroy thoughts or suppress them. Suppression does not work on the mind, only completion does. Suppressed emotions solidify as a volcano of patterns and explode when they get the chance. You can only complete with thoughts by doing self-completion with them, and gradually the mind will settle down.

Lack of integrity is nothing but suppressing your thoughts and putting all your problems under the carpet.

You can never destroy thoughts or suppress them. Suppression does not work on the mind, only completion does. Suppressed emotions solidify as a volcano of patterns and explode when they get the chance. You can only complete with thoughts by doing selfcompletion with them, and gradually the mind will settle down.

Lack of integrity is nothing but suppressing your thoughts and putting all your problems under the carpet. When you do completion and settle into the present moment, with no expectations and no attachments, you will find that your inner space becomes quiet and your senses slow down.

Helping each child understand the importance of completing with every thought

• 1. What is the way to integrate our senses?
• 2. What happens when the mind discovers the bliss of completion?
• 3. What happens when we suppress emotions?
• 4. Define lack of integrity. How does destruction arise within us?

• 1. 10 ml of dish soap
• 2. 100 ml of cold water
• 3. 400 ml of white vinegar
• 4. Food coloring
• 5. Baking soda slurry (fill a cup about ½ with baking soda, then fill the rest of the way with water)
• 6. Empty 2 liter soda bottle

NOTE: This should be done outside due to the mess.

• 1. Combine the vinegar, water, dish soap and 2 drops of food coloring into the empty soda bottle.
• 2. Use a spoon to mix the baking soda slurry until it is all a liquid. Eruption time! … Pour the baking soda slurry into the soda bottle quickly and step back!

This art project will help the children understand that this eruption is what happens when we suppress our emotions and it creates a mess in our lives. And to understand the importance of completing with each thought when it arises.

Tell the children to spread around the room and to start intensely acting like monkeys for 5 minutes. Move like monkeys, jump around like monkeys, make sounds like monkeys, imitate monkey behavior

This activity helps the children understand the instability of the mind when we let our senses take over. So they need to know the importance of integrating their mind to something that transcends the senses in order to experience bliss.

• 1. Pen or pencil
• 2. Paper

Ask the children/ teenagers to engage into a discussion about the cycle that leads to one's destruction by explaining it using a situation form their own life: "From attachment springs desire, from desire arises anger, from anger arises delusion, from delusion comes loss of memory, and from loss of memory develops loss of discrimination which then leads to one's destruction. "Then ask them to write a paragraph explaining the solution.

The mind that discovers the bliss of completion will never want to stray again.

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

rāgadveṣaviyuktaistu viṣayānindriyaiścaran ātmavaśyairvidheyātmā prasādamadhigacchati

The self-controlled man, moving among objects with his senses under control, free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace

The only way, the Lord says, is to control one's senses, complete with oneself and surrender to Him, the Universal energy, and achieve everlasting peace.

prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṁ hānirasyopajāyate prasannacetaso hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate

All pains are destroyed in that peace, for the intellect of the tranquilminded soon becomes steady

Ground yourself in the completion of the present.

nāsti buddhirayuktasya na cāyuktasya bhāvanā na cābhāvayataḥ śāntir aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham

A person not in self awareness cannot be wise or happy or peaceful. How can there be happiness to one without peace

Stay fully in the space of completion, and based on the truth of integrity and authenticity, act.

ndriyāṇāṁ hi caratāṁ yanmano 'nuvidhīyate tadasya harati prajñāṁ vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi

He loses his awareness of the present moment when his mind follows the wandering senses, just as the wind carries away a boat on the waters.

Be complete and focus completely.

Kṛṣṇa reveals two very important truths here in the last two verses. One is that you can never be peaceful unless you are complete, conscious. The other is that you cannot be complete if you are led by your senses. Therefore, as long as your senses lead you into what you think is a pleasurable journey; you cannot really be happy or peaceful. It is just another trick your mind is playing on you. Your happiness is not real happiness. It is just a gap between two periods of sorrow. What you hear, what you think you hear, what you see, what you think you see, and so on, all these sense inputs are unreliable, incomplete cognitions.

Anybody who succeeded, till that success happened, he only failed! But if he had held on to his past record, success should not have happened in his life. This journey never stops all through your life unless you make a serious attempt to complete with it. Your mind, on itsown, would never want to stay in the present moment, which is the only moment of truth. Self- completion, svapūrṇatva is the only direct method to reclaim your space of completion. This is your basic right. Reclaim it!

Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.

Kṛṣṇa says, 'Get away from your senses; escape from their control; ground yourself in the completion of the present. Only then can you be at peace. How can there be happiness for one without peace, aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham? (2.66).

When we do the self-completion process, our mind and inner space becomes integrated and authentic and stops moving back and forth between the past and future, it will by itself land in the present moment. The present moment is what we are doing now. If you are reading this book, don't half read this book and half listen to music; don't half read this book and half talk with someone. Either be complete and focus completely on what you are reading or don't read at all.

When you settle into the space of completion, you are out of the clutches of your senses and mind. You will still see and hear, but none of what you see and hear will divert you from what you are integrated to doing. You will be aware of only what you are doing in that present moment. This is what we call meditation.

Meditation is nothing but being integrated completely to what you are doing at a particular moment. When you plan for the unimaginable, when your nervous system is loaded with things that you are not able to even comprehend, the excitement that oozes in your nervous system is bliss!

Understand, bliss does not come to lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to people caught in the pastrecords. This is what Kṛṣṇa says will lead you into peace and very soon to being steady—prasanna-cetaso hy āśu buddhiḥ paryasvatiṣṭḥate (2.65). When you are complete, your senses are in your control instead of you being under their control. You become peaceful, you are in bliss

❖ Helping each child settle in the space of completion.

❖ Helping each child experience meditation, being established in the present moment.

• ❖ When does real success happen?
• ❖ When does real happiness happen?
• ❖ What is the direct method to regain your space of completion?
• ❖ What should we do with our past records and why?
• ❖ How can you get out of the clutches of your senses and mind?
• ❖ Define meditation?
• ❖ How can you become peaceful and experience bliss?

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil
• 3. Eraser. (No pen because they will need to erase)

Ask each child to draw a situation that made them unhappy in pencil. Then ask them to hold that paper and help them complete with the incident. When they are complete, ask them to erase their drawing. Conclude by asking the children how they feel at the end of the process and ask them to explain why dropping the past is important.

This art activity will help the children understand that past records need to be dropped in order for them to be in a space of completion and experience bliss.

Ask each child to pick one activity that they want to do for 5 minutes and tell them that they have to engage it with it fully, and to be completely involved in it like nothing else exists.

When you engage fully in the action without getting distracted, you experience the present moment. You experience completion. You experience bliss. You move towards being established in the space of completion.

Discuss what is Unclutching and Lead the group into the unclutching meditation to help them get grounded in the present moment.

CONCLUSION Completion brings peace and bliss..

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

tasmādyasya mahābāho nigṛhītāni sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā

O Mahābāho (mighty-armed one), his knowledge is therefore steady whose senses are completely detached from sense objects

A person who is in control of his senses is firmly in control of his mind and emotions. Only such a person is truly awake!

yā niśā sarvabhūtānāṁ tasyāṁ jāgarti saṁyamī yasyāṁ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśā paśyato muneḥ

The self–controlled man lies awake in that which is night to all beings. That in which all beings are awake is the night for the sage who sees

Wake up!

āpūryamāṇ amacala-pratiṣṭhaṁ samudramāpaḥ praviśanti yadvat tadvatkāmā yaṁ praviśanti sarve sa śāntimāpnoti na kāmakāmī

Just as all waters enter the ocean, he attains peace into whom all desires enter, which when filled from all sides, remains unmoved; not the desirer of desires

The "Muni", one who is still, in silence, is one who is in total control of his senses.

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vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvān pumāṁścarati niḥspṛhaḥ nirmamo nirahañkāraḥ sa śāntimadhigacchati

The man who moves about abandoning all desires, without longing, without the sense of I and mine, attains peac

Such a person who is self-aware is fully awake even when he is asleep.

eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati thitvāsyāmantakāle'pi brahmanirvāṇamṛcchati

O Pārtha, this is the state of Brahman, Brāhmī-sthiti; none is deluded after attaining this. Even at the end of life, one attains Brahmanirvāṇa, oneness with Brahman when established in this state

A person steeped in yoga is complete in reality and is liberated

In His concluding words in this chapter, Kṛṣṇa clarifies to Arjuna once again, how to reach liberation, how to become one with Brahman which is one's true and natural state. We have seen that a person not centered in self-completion cannot be peaceful or happy or wise. A person who is led by his senses cannot be complete. A person who is in control of his senses is firmly in control of his mind and emotions. Only such a person is truly awake.

We all think we are awake; are we really? We live in daydreams even if we are awake. The only occasion when we are truly awake is when we are in the space of completion.

A person in such a space of completion is whom Kṛṣṇa calls a 'Muni,' a realized being living in the present. Such a person is always awake, having experienced his inner awakening, whether physically awake or asleep. Kṛṣṇa says that such a person is in sleep when others are awake, yasyāṁ jāgrati bhūtāni sā niśā paśyato muneḥ (2.69). The realized person, although he may appear to be living and actively participating in the activities of the same world that we live in, is in reality, in a state of passive alertness or restful awareness.

This means that his senses are not immersed in worldliness and he is centered and complete in his Self. He is dead and asleep to this world because he has moved beyond his senses. A truly realized person is also awake when others are asleep. Even in his sleep he is aware, in what is called the state of supta chittam.

A person who is in the space of completion is still as the waters in the bed of the ocean. Though there are waves in the surface, they do not disturb the bed of the ocean. Even when desires assail him, they are mere waves in the periphery of his consciousness, and do not disturb him at all. He has abandoned all attachment to 'I' and 'mine.' He is without thoughts and desires and when thoughts and desires come to him, they merge into him without disturbing him.

How this is possible? The 'Muni,' one who is still, in silence, is one who is in tot al control of his senses. When the senses are controlled, when the ego is out of action, all thoughts and desires are just witnessed.

The 'Muni' does not get involved in these thoughts and desires. He does not even try to stop or suppress them, as he knows it is impossible. He just lets them be watching them go past, just like the ocean watches impassively as other waters merge into it.

We are all enlightened because we are all a hologramic part of the reality of the Universe, Brahman. All that we lack is the awareness of the truth of our Enlightenment.

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The science of completion is the essence of Sā�…khya Yoga. Completion makes you experience the Sā�…khya of life. Śrī Kṛṣṇa who is the space of completion Himself, sets Arjuna on the path of completion. May all of you travel that path too! Thus ends the second chapter named Sā�…khya Yogaḥ, 'The Yoga of Knowledge of Completion,' of the Bhagavad Gītā.

❖ Helping each child understand what it means to be truly awake.

❖ Helping each child know they are truly Divinity

• ❖ Who is truly awake?

• ❖ What is a Muni?

• ❖ What is a Muni dead and asleep to?

• ❖ When is a Muni also awake?

• ❖ Do desires disturb a Muni?

• ❖ What courage does Arjuna have?

• ❖ What does Swamiji tell his disciples again and again?

• ❖ Is completion a science?

• 1. Paper
• 2. Colouring Pens

Draw a night scene of nurses and doctors watching over sleeping patients

There is always someone awake when others are asleep.

• ❖ A clear glass of water and teaspoon per child
• ❖ Food coloring
• ❖ An eye dropper (one per acharya)

Ensure the water in the glass has had a chance to settle and be still. Acharya drops one drop of food coloring in each glass. Get the children to watch how the color drops to the bottom of the glass and does not move from there. Then the child may use their spoon to mix the water.

The bottom of the ocean is still. When we add an activity it stirs the colour into the water. A person who is in the space of completion is as still as the waters in the bed of the ocean

Let The children hold Vaaryartha Sadhas on how they understand that we are all a hologramic part of the reality of the Universe, Brahman.

CONCLUSION You are Divinity