1. Comparison - Collection

Why do we feel so intensely threatened by another's beauty or wealth or talent? This is nothing but simple social conditioning. Brought up in a competitive world, we tend to imagine that the more someone else has of something, the less there is for us!

One of the natural tendencies for you is comparing yourself with others. And, whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you or whom you think lower than you, you are going to fall into the space of powerlessness. If you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with people whom you think who are lower than you, again you will fall into the superiority complex, arrogance, which is also powerlessness.

Comparison can be of two kinds: constructive comparison and destructive comparison.

Constructive comparison is essential and desirable. In a practical sense, it gives you a yardstick against which to measure yourself. It provides the spur, the stimulus to improve. Without comparing, how can you have a realistic appreciation of yourself?

Destructive comparison results from the inability to accept reality. In this big wide world, someone is sure to be better than you at whatever you do. 99.99% chances are that you're not the world's best mathematician, the fastest runner or the most talented painter. Does that mean that you enjoy these things any less? To focus only on what you're lacking simply means that you're on your way to a massive inferiority complex. And who needs it?

Look around you. Do you know anyone else who is exactly the same as you? Don't you see how special you are? If you are comparing yourself to others and feeling miserable, it simply means that you aren't appreciating yourself enough! You are so out of touch with your inner being that you have forgotten how extraordinary you really are. Once you realise this, the need to compare dies naturally. Even if you wanted to compare, each person is so different - where is a common point of reference? So drop the attitude of comparison. Remember, you are truly unique - just like everyone else!

"Completion with yourself raises you to the level of Enlightenment and liberates you from the cognition of comparing yourself with others and keeping yourself in a very low level."

One of the natural tendencies for you is comparing yourself with others. And, whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you or whom you think lower than you, you are going to fall into the space of powerlessness. Whether you think there are some people who are higher than you and you compare with them, or lower than you and compare with them, both ways you will fall into powerlessness.

If you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with people whom you think who are lower than you, again you will fall into the superiority complex, arrogance, which is also a powerlessness.

Whether you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you or you think are lower than you, you are in the space of powerlessness and you are destroying yourself. And you are going to destroy yourself unless you raise yourself, unless you complete with yourself.

The first thing will hit you is, the moment you compare yourself with the people higher than you, you will become powerless. You will shiver, you will shake. You will shiver; you will lose confidence over your powerful space. You will think the powerfulness happened in you only as an accident but your nature is powerlessness. You will come to the wrong conclusions about you which is the biggest curse. It is life imprisonment.

Whoever you may be, if you have a wrong idea about you, you are in life imprisonment.

Carrying the ideas lower than you, about you is the life imprisonment in which you suffer for comparing yourself with people whom you think are higher than you., every time you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you, you are taking away the life energy happening in you, you are blocking your Kundalini energy, you are blocking your life force, you are destroying your bio-energy because it is going to reinforce the faith in you that you are powerless, you are useless, you are lifeless.

The moment you think somebody is bigger than you and he knows it, you are going to be exploited by him. The person who is really, really bigger than you will always be helping you to make you become like him. But whom you think is bigger than you will only be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you. Whom you think is bigger than you will be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you.

Whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think are bigger than you or lower than you, comparison is going to put you in powerlessness.

When you think somebody is higher than you and you compare yourself with them, the different kinds of tortures you will give it to you, you will bring upon you,

All your good, bad, everything is perceived by you; if that you is corrupted, your whole life is Hell. Then whatever direction you are functioning is wrong. You need to sit and look why you are doing what you are doing before you are completely collapsed, you need to look in , why you are doing what you are doing.

The civilizations which drives you by creating a peer pressure where you are forced to compare yourself with people higher than you, will be filled with psychological disorders. All the so-called grown up countries are Filled with psychological disorders.

If you are constantly comparing yourself with whom you think as higher than you, even if you reach that place, you will be reaching that place by fear.

Arrogance is the most powerful, cunning method which shows all the inauthenticity, irresponsibility you have on others. And you go on comparing yourself with others and destroy yourself! Unless you get out of it, only when you enrich yourself with responsibility, you can become authentic again.

Comparing yourself with the people whom you think are lower than you. this is worse than the earlier pattern. This leads to arrogance, ego, inauthenticity.

You will never do anything, but you think you are qualified for everything! You will never take responsibility, but you think you can boss around everyone. this mental setup puts you in Indraloka where constant insecurity resides.

OTHER SIDE OF COMPARISON

If you are caught in the pattern of comparing yourself with the people whom you think are lower than you, you will develop so much of arrogance, pride, inauthenticity; you will never take the responsibility; you will never live the life of enriching yourself and others

In powerfulness, you will never feel you are doing too much, you will never have the stress, because you don't conduct the Tug of War before making any decision.

When you carry arrogance, even to make a simple decision you will do so much of Tug of War inside, you will really feel you are doing too much and you will complicate things..

If you are in the space of Completion, all the work you touch will be successful, it will flourish, it will bring so much of powerfulness in you.

Success-Powerfulness will always shower success, understand, never bring failure. It is a law of life!

Whatever may be the reason for your powerlessness, once the powerlessness enters in you, it eats away even one or two remaining good things in your life. Even the few moments of powerfulness which you experienced will be forgotten by you; you will think it is only a illusion or delusion or accident happened in your life. If you think the beautiful moments of your life happened in you as an accident, there is nobody unfortunate than you.

Even if you try to show yourself as powerful, when you are feeling inside powerless, the pull and push internally creates tremendous stress.

Comparing yourself with people whom you think higher than you puts you into the eternal depression. We can call this hell as "Kumbhipaakam". Garuda Purana describes various hells. Putting yourself in the space of powerlessness is equivalent to putting yourself in hell with a lot of effort.

Neither comparing yourself with the people who you think are higher than you nor comparing yourself with people who you think are lower than you is going to keep you powerful or help you in your life.

Remain powerful by remembering comparing with others is a sickness which happens due to powerlessness.

Whether you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you or you think are lower than you, you are in the space of powerlessness and you are destroying yourself. And you are going to destroy yourself unless you raise yourself, unless you complete with yourself.

volume 1

Emotions of fear, desire and guilt are subjective emotions. Subjective emotionsyou do not need another person or even an object to create these emotions. But to compare yourself with another person and to feel jealous of him, you need the presence of another person.

Jealousy is therefore an objective emotion. It needs an object to be activated. Jealously starts from comparison.

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We compare ourselves with others in various areas like looks, wealth, knowledge, fame, friends etc. When we compare ourselves with others we feel that somebody else has something more than what we have and we get caught in jealously. Comparison is the seed and jealously is the fruit. When we are not able to beat other's excellence, we get jealous Comparison and Jealousy are both actually non- existent we create them ourselves. Comparison is purely a fragment of our imagination. We are so busy comparing all the time that we never see things as they

Comparison has a purely negative existence. Comparison is pure illusion. We all function around the three axes of doing, having and using. Doing for having without enjoying being, is the sole cause of all our misery.

We compare ourselves because we have never understood ourselves. We are not aware of who we are and what we have. The society has conditioned us from our birth to evaluate ourselves based on others. Every judgment you make about yourself is based on some comparison.

Imagine you are the only person on a new planet, how could you compare yourself with any one?

When there is no one to compare our self, we just are happy with our self. Each individual is unique. We need to understand that truth. But that is a very bitter fruit.

Make the children aware of comparison, and the reasons for comparing.

What are subjective emotions?

• Why do we call them subjective emotions?

• What is an objective emotion?

• What is jealousy?

• When you are alone can you compare?

• Can you compare a lion and a horse?

• Do we compare ourselves with flowers or birds?

• What are the special features you think you have?

• In which way are you similar to others?

• In which way you are different from others?

• Why do we compare ourselves with others? •

• Do plants and trees compare themselves?

The moment you stop comparing all jealousy disappears, instead you will start feeling contentment in yourself and grateful to existence for having given you so much and for making you unique

Part 2: Comparison - Collection_English_part_2.md

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• Paper
• Pencil or sketch pen.

Instruct the children to place the pencil in the middle of the paper and move the paper in different directions instead of moving the pencil.

Even though the usual paper, pencil or sketch pen is used, changing the method of application changes the drawing. Similarly when we change our view we can stop comparing.

• o Sticks or ice cream sticks
• o 2 large cups,
• o Water
• o Tub
• o Scissors

Gather the class and reiterate the subject of comparison. Explain that we are going to do an experiment on comparison.

On the table, lay two sticks side by side. They look identical in shape and size. Ask the children which stick is longer. They may say both are equal. Break one stick into two equal halves and lay them back to look like a full stick. Ask the children which stick is longer

They may say both are equal. Now push up the broken stick further up than the other. Ask the class which row is taller and see if they understand that both sticks are equal. This will help them understand displacement.

Next take two cups and fill them all the way to the top so that they are exactly equal. Put them both side by side. Ask the class which container has more quantity of water? Now pour one cup of water in a tub and remove the empty cup.

Now ask again which container has more quantity of water? (They are both still equal, only the containers which hold them are different but the quantity is the same)

There are different types of comparisons. This one which is more scientific teaches about quantity and the concept of displacement and hence, about our common misconceptions

volume 2

When we see others we see the best things about them and want to be like them. The very nature of the mind is to be unsatisfied, not to be happy, and not to be in the present moment. The mind can exist only in the past or future. It cannot exist in the present because you cannot have thoughts in the present moment. Ask the children to name their special features, the features they love a lot. The other extreme of comparison is we feel very proud that we are the best and start discouraging others.

Everyone is unique and special; no one is inferior to anybody in any way. Discuss the major areas where we normally comparewealth, name and fame, power and prestige, knowledge and health.

We can group these under four major categories. Money, knowledge and beauty; which includes health and status. Comparison is pure illusion.

Contentment will flower when you understand the negative existence of comparison and jealousy. Borrowed desires happen very subtly in our mind; that is why although they happen continuously, we continue to state that we are not bothered by others

To make them understand borrowed desires, what are the needs and what are the wants of an individual.

• Name some of your special features?

• Which feature of yours do you like a lot?

• What happens when you compare with others?

• How do your friends feel when you discourage them?

• How will you feel when you encourage your friend to achieve something?

• What happens when you always say I am the best and I know everything?

• How do our friends feel when we are too proud?

• Can we have a huge friend circle if we are very egoistic?

• What is the best way to live happily?

• Picture of Vishuddhi chakra :

• Paper

• Pencil or sketch pen.

Talk to the children about the Vishuddhi chakra and show the picture of the Vishuddhi chakra to the children. Encourage the children to see the picture of Vishuddhi chakra and draw the chakra.

The Vishuddhi chakra is located in the throat area. In Sanskrit, Vishuddhi means 'beyond purity and impurity'. This chakra is locked by comparison and jealousy and it can be made to flower, when we exhibit our individuality without worrying about others, and express fully our capacity, uniqueness and creativity. This Vishuddhi chakra is all about winning yourself.

Each of us is perfect- why compare? This activity illustrates and reminds us of the qualities we possess and make us thankful for what we are.

• Paper
• Pencil

Making a list of qualities that make us special.

Discuss the activity and what they have learned about the topic of comparison, Talk about how each of us is different and unique. Give some examples such as Susan is very sweet and thoughtful, she is very sharing and loves her friends. Have them think about their own special qualities, and give them each a paper and pencil and make them write their list of qualities.

With paper and a pencil, they can all draw a picture and instead of comparing their pictures, they can each admire and compliment each other on the beauty of the different pictures

If we had no one to compare with, we would not compare! Comparing leads to jealousy and hurt feelings, so we should be content and happy with who we are.

Ask them to narrate where they picked up the various ice cream sticks from.

Ask each child to discuss their habits and give each child a turn to explain where exactly they picked it up

One child might say 'I like green colors, because from my young age I have seen my mother's fondness for green colors. I do not like cockroaches because my brother always hates cockroaches and so on. Ask each child to pick up an ice cream stick and write on it, where they picked up each of their habits from.

All our desires and habits are actually not our original desires. We have mainly picked them up from parents, relatives and friends.

volume 3

Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us. It does not matter whether you are a rose or a Lilly or a wild flower. The important thing is that the wild flower should realize its ultimate potential as a wild flower just as the rose should understand its inherent potential.

The fragrance of you realizing your unique potential is what radiates and without effort, touches everyone around you.

Whether it is beauty or intelligence, you are unique. We always want to be someone else, we compare with others and want to become like them. Explain what some of the aspects are, which we compare with others. When we see what somebody else has and start to compare, we borrow the desire of wanting things like them. This is called borrowed desires, which is born out of comparison.

This borrowed desire is an example of a want, not a need. When you start spending your energy to realize borrowed desires, you feel that you don't have enough energy to fulfill all your desires. You have enough energy to fulfill all of your needs but not your wants.

To make them understand how we always wish to be somebody else and how to overcome it.

• What is a need?
• What is a want?
• Name some of your needs?
• Name some of your wants?
• What is borrowed desire?

Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us.

Be happy with what we have and who we are.

• Plain sheet or any picture sheet
• Poster colors

Ask the children to apply paint on their hands and print them on the paper. Encourage them to observe the paint and check whether the five fingers they printed are same size or not.

Connect to the fact our five fingers are not same size, each one is of a different size, each one has unique functions so when we cannot compare between our own fingers it is not correct to compare ourselves with others

This shows that each person is unique and special, and there is no other person the same as you

• Paper
• Paint or ink
• Pencil
• Sponge

• 1. Gather the class and discuss the topic briefly.
• 2. Talk about how everyone has different physical features and the special qualities in them.
• 3. Have everyone look at their fingers, closely at their thumb and the designs on it. There is no one else in the whole world that has the same pattern of thumb print. Have them compare their thumbs and see how different they each are.
• 4. Give each person a piece of paper with their name written on it.
• 5. Using the paint or ink, you can place the thumb in a shallow plate or press the thumb on a sponge with paint or ink on it.
• 6. Then press the thumb on to a plain piece of paper and see the shape of your thumb and the pattern clearly.

use a paper and pencil and have each trace their hand and color it in, or draw the patterns.

Everyone is special and different in their own ways. If we are happy with whom we are, we will not compare.

volume 4

Part 3: Comparison - Collection_English_part_3.md

Jealousy has no solid existence, in that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or awareness.

There is no end to comparison because comparison exists in mind, not in reality. The jealousy that arises from comparison also has no basis. Peer pressure is just a big ego game. Actually, ego is not at all necessary for you to grow. We always compare ourselves with our peers and always crave for the things which we are not having.

Jealousy is closely related to many negative emotions like anger, greed, possessiveness and depression. All this emotions will dissolve when we break this cycle of jealousy. If you concentrate on your own track, you will be continuously progressing and expanding your own capacity. You need to compare yourself with only yourself, never with others. You need to win yourselves only by yourself, not by others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress.

To make the kids aware of the fact that jealousy is the mother of hypocrisy

• What is jealousy?
• What leads to jealousy?
• Name some of our basic needs
• What is peer pressure?
• Have you felt jealous? When? Why?

How we can overcome jealousy?

Jealousy cannot be overcome either by escaping from it or hating the object of your jealousy. Be satisfied with what we have, be happy with ourselves and enjoy life.

• Paper
• Sketch pen, or pencil

Encourage each child to look at any object and draw it in a different perspective, for example they can look at the computer and draw the side view.

When we change our perception of seeing, the whole view changes. We can overcome jealousy by changing the perceptions we have about a person.

To make the children understand about compare/ complain.

Make the children sit in pairs facing each other.

Ask each child to look at this friends left eye using his left eye and talk. Ask each child to take turns and ask each how they felt.

We look each other only through our right eye because we use mostly our left brain. If we start using our left eye to see other people, we will not judge that person.

We will be very nice to them because we use our right brain when we see through our left eye. We will be heart oriented. We will not complain about the other person.

volume 5

Buddha says, 'Nothing exists except in relationship.' Suppose you were the only person on a new planet, how could you compare yourself with anyone? Could you call yourself tall or short, ugly or beautiful, rich or poor, intelligent or dumb? No! When there is no one with whom to compare ourselves, we just are! Even now, there is no scale to compare you with anybody. Each individual is unique.

Can you compare a lion and a horse? Do we ever compare ourselves with flowers or birds or mountains? Then why do we have to compare ourselves with other human beings! The moment you stop comparing, all jealousy disappears. Instead, you will start feeling contented in yourself and grateful to Existence for having given you so much and for making you unique. If you feel jealous of others, you will suffer.

You will constantly fight with others openly or inside yourself If somebody laughs, you think he is laughing at you. If somebody is friendly towards another person, you feel lonely and jealous of that person. Actually, you are just waiting for someone to hurt you. The jealousy you allow inside you is like a raw wound.

Any action done with no intention to hurt you also touches the wound and hurts.

So when you feel hurt, understand that you have a wound. Don't throw the responsibility of the suffering on the other person. The wound needs to be healed, the jealousy has to be dissolved. Then nobody can hurt you. Nobody can hurt you without your silent permission.

You compare yourself to each other because you feel that you are somehow lacking.

All of the confidence, intelligence, and vibrant energy that you need already exist inside you. You have the potential to live like a gods on earth. Don't believe the limiting things that you have been made to believe about yourselves. Just look in! Experiment, explore and discover the truth for yourself. Then you will simply radiate all of these qualities effortlessly.

To inspire children to accept who they are and be self expressed and acknowledge and respect the uniqueness in others and give them the space to express their uniqueness.

• In what aspects do we compare with others?
• What do you understand from the city mouse and the country mouse story?
• What happens when we are happy with ourselves?
• What is the way to enjoy Bliss?

• White sheet
• Pencil (or) Sketch pen

Ask each child what they understand about emotion. Ask them what they understand about the emotion jealousy. Give each child the materials needed. Children are then encouraged to depict this jealousy emotion in a picture form. Each child should get their turn to talk about what they have drawn about jealously. Jealousy is the by-product of comparison

Whether it is beauty or intelligence everyone is unique. Only when we really put ourselves in other's position, will we realize others sufferings are far worse than our own.

• 1. Torch light (flash light)
• 2. Colored glass paper.

Have enough pieces of glass paper and torch lights for everyone, or all can share the activity.

Take the torch light and demonstrate how to turn it on. Show how thoughts change colors as per the moods in our mind. If it is removed, the light is clear. Every one should take a turn removing the thoughts

The flashlight is like our mind. The glass paper is our thoughts. Our vision is distorted by the thoughts we project. If we remove the glass paper/ thoughts, our vision and outlook is clear. But everyone has preconceived ideas and different thoughts and ways of looking at things; this is what brings in confusion. Remove the thoughts,

What does the glass paper represent? Why do we see in different colors? What happens when we feel that we are very clear about an idea? "We use our intuition."

volume 6

Jealousy does not allow you to experience your true nature of love and bliss. It arises out of misunderstanding of life and yourself. We think love is a quantity that needs to be shared. That is why we are afraid, thinking that if we share our love our share will be reduced. Love is a quality inside us.

It is not a limited quantity. When we compare ourselves with others we think others are superior or inferior to us that reduces the chances of loving them. We always try to prove ourselves to others. We always think about how others will perceive us.

When we compare with others we try to forget best qualities of our own.

We will excel and achieve in everything when we do work as passion and when we are not comparing ourselves with others. When we are happy with ourselves it enhances our own personality and confidence. We are very creative when we are more open. Everyone is different because everyone is special. If you see people who have achieved great heights in life they surely would have accepted themselves as they are, happy with what they have, would have done workout of passion.

To make the kids aware of the fact that comparing with other's affects our own personality

• Name your unique qualities
• What is your passion?
• What is your goal?
• When are you more creative?
• What happens when you compare with others?

If you accept yourself just as you are, you can accept others as they are

• Paper
• Pencil or sketch pen

Encourage the children to draw any picture or shape first with eyes open and then with eyes closed and compare both the pictures.

Even though the same person is drawing both the pictures with the same pencil or sketch pen, both the pictures will not look alike; when there is so much of a difference between the same person's activities, we cannot compare ourselves with others.

Part 4: Comparison - Collection_English_part_4.md

• 1. Play dough
• 2. Different kinds and sizes of cookie cutters

Give each child enough play dough. Encourage children to use the different kinds and sizes of cookie cutters and make different structures out of play dough and compare the structures

volume 7

Comparing is resisting, when we compare we fall into fear -'poor me', or greed 'I am right'. Comparing is a huge traffic jam happening in our thought process it does not let us be spontaneous.

We are part of whole intelligence even though we are unique in our own expression and experience. So with this right understanding we can apply it to our situations.

For the situation, we face we have two options: We can place our ego in wrong place and complicate ourselves. If we understand the situation and accept the solution we can change our belief-to-be life. If we accept the situation positively we get the solution. Complaining is to resist. We resist every moment, that's why we cannot sit with ourselves.

We look at situations like a view, when we change the perception, the dimension of the view changes; like in a kaleidoscope when we change the angle we get various new images. Like in the optical illusion we need to understand the hidden knowledge (or) message in every issue; we can shift to the new world of understanding that others are uniquely a part of us. The mind can grow like a wild fire only in comparison, but during comparison we only grow to the extent of whom or what we compare.

The mind can grow like a wild fire only in comparison, but during comparison we only grow to the extent of whom or what we compare. Mind fails to exist without comparison. If the bottleneck is cleared with the understanding of uniqueness, 100% of energy and experience can enrich you. Because of perception of reality we cannot see something which we did not know before.

We are all already, always listening to the inner chatter in the mind that's why we are not able to listen to others.

We look at each other only through our right eye because we use only our right brain. If we start looking using our left eye to see other people, we will not judge that person; we will be very nice to them. We use our right brain when we see through our left eye. We will be heart-oriented, we will not complain about the other person.

To make the children understand that comparing is resisting and to cause them to move towards unclutching and flowing with life.

• What is comparing?
• What happens when we compare?
• Relate comparison with traffic jams.
• What is oneness?
• What is the best way to tackle the situation?
• How we can change our belief?
• Jealousy is a misunderstanding of what?

When we accept who we are, we can accept others as they are. We will stop proving ourselves to others and just be who we are

• Paper
• Sketch (or) Pencil
• Mirror picture or object.

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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

When we keep on comparing ourselves with others we can never be fulfilled, we can never enjoy the beauty of existence.

To make the children understand the topic of comparing

Introduce the children to the game and then encourage the children to play the game with lots of focus

Ask each child to stand in pairs, each one facing each other. Ask one child to do some actions, perhaps move some body parts; ask the other child in that pair to follow the same-mirror the other person's activity. We can ask each child to take turns and play this game.

Connect the activity to the concept of comparing. How we see others, compare ourselves with others and how continuously we judge others and try to prove ourselves with others and get confused.

volume 8

All our comparison with other people begins with what we think of ourselves. Jealousy disappears when we understand our uniqueness. We may then create another problem. We may believe ourselves to be so special that we start taking ourselves far too seriously.

Seriousness is nothing but paying undue importance to something, at the cost of everything else

It arises from the inability to see that all of life is just a drama that is unfolding every minute. Seriousness closes your mind to the openness and freedom of life. It curbs your thinking and makes you stick to the familiar patterns that you know and use all the time.

Perfectionism always comes from your mind. It becomes a goal for you. When you work towards it as a goal it becomes mundane.

But when you are total, when you are established in your heart, it becomes a deep experience. Perfectionism never gives you joy. It only fulfills your eye. Perfectionism is never possible because it is in your mind and your mind keeps on changing its definition of perfection

Make them aware of the concept of Seriousness and perfectionism Vs Sincerity

• What happens when we think we are very special?

• When does jealousy disappear?

• What is seriousness?

• Have you felt serious about anything?

• What was it and when?

• What would be your goal?

• What is perfectionism?

• Does perfectionism give you joy?

• Is perfectionism possible?

• Can anybody define themselves as perfect?

• Is there anybody perfect in the world?

• How would you feel when you achieve your goal?

• What do we need to do to achieve our goal?

Discover your uniqueness by dropping comparing and dropping resistance to who you are now.

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• Picture of Ajna Chakra, Paper, Pencil (or) Sketch. Ajna - Ego - Seriousness Ajna chakra, which is located between the eyebrows. In Sanskrit, Ajna means 'will' or 'order'. The Ajna chakra is known as the Master Chakra. This chakra is locked by seriousness and ego and it can be made to flower by innocence, simplicity and intelligence, and by shedding all forms of ego.

The Ajna chakra is concerned with ego, with seriousness, we thinking too much about ourselves and therefore taking life too seriously

Talk to the children about the Ajna Chakra and show the picture of the Ajna Chakra to the children. Encourage the children to see the picture of Ajna Chakra and draw the chakra.

• 1. Clean water packets
• 2. Water
• 3. Tub

Have enough water packets so that everyone will get a chance to get a turn. Fill each packet with water, and keep extra water in the tub

• ✓ Gather everyone around and show them the activity.
• ✓ Talk about thoughts. What happens when we are full of thoughts? We are weighed down in our minds and hearts because of all the inner chatter that is going on inside. We can't think very clearly.
• ✓ The water packet illustrates our mind, the water is our thoughts. When we hold on to our thoughts, we are filling ourselves full of nonsense. But if we realize what we are doing, we should just release it, squeeze it out and be empty.

Only then great things will happen. Drop the mind and be free, un-clutch the thoughts one at a time and all inner chatter will disappear and bliss will enter our lives instead.

Demonstrate how to squeeze the water out of the packets and have the thoughts behind, leave the water packet also illustrating how we can drop the mind and go on to do great things

volume 9

Have the courage to make mistakes. But also learn from past mistakes and avoid repeating mistakes.

Serious people are always afraid to make mistakes. Actually those people who are afraid of making small mistakes end up making big blunders.

Actually when you make a mistake and when people point it out, you are unable to bear it. Your ego gets hurt. So to avoid getting your ego hurt, you try your best not to make mistakes.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. In fact by making a few mistakes, you can come to know how to avoid making mistakes, because you have experientially understood it.

The more you learn from mistakes, the more you know about how not to make mistakes.

Do things to the best of your intelligence and enthusiasm but without worrying about whether you might make a mistake. Also, you must learn from your mistakes or those of others. It is not good to repeat the same mistakes. When you are not so concerned about your ego getting hurt, you will have the courage to take any jump.

Part 5: Comparison

Life is beyond our logic. Most of us unconsciously believe that life is filled with incidents that are under the control of logic. But life reminds us, again and again the truth; that life is beyond our logic.

To make them aware of the fact that life is beyond our logic, encourage taking sensible risks and learn from past mistakes and not repeat them. Keep on expanding till you reach your state space and express Powers of Paramashiva

• How would you feel when somebody points out your mistakes?

• Do you have the courage to make mistakes? Is it ok to make mistakes?

• Can we learn from our mistakes?

• Can we repeat the same mistakes again?

• What are the common mistakes we make?

• Can we predict things in our lives?

• What are the things we learn from our mistakes?

• What would happen when you think you are the best and that nobody is superior to you?

Have the courage to make mistakes, learn from your mistakes, be free from ego and act with freedom and courage.

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• Paper
• Paint with vinegar
• Vanilla or any essence mixed in them.

Encourage each child to draw pictures using paint mixed with Vinegar, vanilla or any other aromatic materials mixed in it.

Talk to your teacher or your parent about three mistakes that you made in the recent past and also share what or how you learnt some thing from these mistakes

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We usually pick up a mixture of different personality traits and qualities from society, our friends and our family. We are all a mirror of others. We pick what we like in others and project it into ourselves. Every action we do is not our pure actions, but only a reflection of others action. We do not know who we are exactly because everybody has an influence of others in them. Each of our qualities (bad or good), or mannerisms if you see clearly, will definitely mirror somebody's influence.

You are not exactly who you are, we are only a mirror of others. That's why we are called collage of others. We need to be in the place where people have higher intelligence. When we live in the place where people have attitude problems we will pick it up unconsciously. We must be aware of the fact we must not pick any negative things from anybody. We have to understand who we pick up the patterns from.

To make the children understood that we a mixture of different personalities which we pick up from others.

• From whom do we pick up qualities or mannerisms?
• Why we call ourselves mirror of others?
• What do we pick up from our society?
• Can any of your actions be purely your independent action?

Lets drop all out ideas about who we think we are based on opinion of others and remember our true identity I am Paramashiva.

MATERIALS NEEDED

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• Paper
• Paint or sketch

Encourage each child to draw ego in a pictorial form, ask each child to explain what they have drawn.