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1. Bliss is Being Satisfied

IS IT WRONG TO HAVE DESIRES?

Desire is not wrong. Having so much of desires, you have never time to fulfil even one desire is wrong. Desire to have a cup of coffee is not wrong. But by the time coffee is ready, you are already worried about having a buttermilk. By the time buttermilk is ready. you have already started worrying about the nectar. But finally from the morning till night you never drank anything. That is what is wrong.

WONDER WHY YOUR DESiRES ARE NOT BECOMiNG REALiTY?

You do not manifest what you desire, but you manifest what you believe. You manifest what you perceive, you manifest what you cognize. If you cognize struggle as you, if you believe you as a struggle, you will manifest only that. If you believe, if you cognize , if you perceive, you as the ups and downs you will manifest only that in your life. So the first basic truth, so if you perceive yourself as a struggle, you will manifest only that.

INTRODUCTION

There are seven layers in the pyramid leading up to bliss. We are going to explore the different levels and decide where we are and discuss how to go into bliss. These energy centre or layers in the pyramid correspond with the seven centers of energy in the Vedic system. Each Centre represents an emotional state as well as a state of the desire. As we fulfill the needs of each Centre, we move up in energy till we reach a state of fulfillment. This is also known as self-actualization

GOALS

To understand and realize that some things we need, and some things we only desire. Looking within will help us to find bliss. To go through the seven layers and understand what they mean and why we need or want them.

ART OF THE DAY

MIRROR iMAGE

Paper

Sketch (or) Pencil Mirror picture or object.

PROCEDURE

Keep a picture or object in front of the mirror and ask each child to see the image in the mirror and draw the picture on the paper with pencil or sketch. Explain to the children we see our friends, relatives and mirror their desires as our desires

Paper

Pencil (or) Sketch (or) Pencil Chart paper

PROCEDURE

Explain to the child about the pyramid of desire. Encourage each child to cut a triangular shape in the chart with safety scissors and ask them to divide the triangle and write the components of the pyramid of desire.