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Guilt corrupts our inner space. Guilt is a disaster caused either by our family, or by ourselves or by society. Guilty persons can never be at ease, He can never enjoy life as he is never fulfilled.

Dissolve salt in water This activity illustrates Ego, Guilt and Love; The water is love, and the salt is Guilt. The way to be in bliss is to dissolve the Guilt in the water of love

Salt, Water, Container, Spoon.

1. Gather the class and discuss the topic.
2. Show them the materials that illustrate the concept. The salt is ego, and the water is love. Ask them what will happen when we add salt to the water? - It dissolves. In the same manner we can dissolve our ego by using love.
3. Demonstrate the activity and show them how proud and white the guilt is on its own, but when added to the water, it dissolves. Love overcomes guilt
4. Each child can add a bit of salt and stir it into the water watching it dissolve.

Loving and forgiving can overcome negative effects and guilt will disappear.

When you start internalizing the laws of society, you create a deep wound in your being. You destroy your innate intelligence. According to me, children can be given a set of rules initially so they don't move from the path of consciousness. But soon they have to be given the understanding of life and the need to operate from consciousness instead of conscience. If you live with consciousness, you will automatically live a moral life. To start understanding the need to live with consciousness, just look into your morality.

Morality is only skin deep, whereas consciousness comes from the very being. Your consciousness tries to break through your conscience. Your consciousness continuously fights with your conscience. Conscience is societal. Consciousness is natural. Conscience is a poor substitute for consciousness.

People ask me, 'Swamiji, what is this? You are pulling down the whole social structure. Then how can we all live morally?' I tell them, 'Be very clear, it is only for kids that you need a forced morality. For them you need to say, 'Keep quiet, I will give you candy.' Of course, nowadays kids reply, 'I am happy. I don't need your candy. Who cares for your candy!' For a child you can say that you will give candy and restrict him. You can impose morality on him based on fear or greed. But for you, it is time to grow up. You are not kids anymore. Just stand up with consciousness.

"When I say consciousness, I mean the intelligent energy of your being"

Make them aware of the importance of rules; and the necessity of understanding why we are following it.

• What happens when we do not follow rules?
• What is the importance of following the rules?
• What happens when we follow the rules
• without understanding the rules?
• What is consciousness?
• What is conscience?

If we live with consciousness we will automatically live a moral life. Follow the rules by understanding the reason behind it.

Paper, Pen (or) Sketch (or) Pencil, Pictures

Give each child the materials needed. Ask them to draw the pictorial representation of how they feel when they forgive themselves for what they have done wrong. Let each child be given a chance to explain what they have drawn.

Guilt is the original sin. Accepting the mistake and forgiving yourself is the only way to overcome guilt and enjoy life.

To make the children understand when we speak & lie we will never be confident, when we speak through our whole body supports us.

To make the children understand when we speak & lie we will never be confident, when we speak through our whole body supports us.

Make the children sit in pairs facing each other

Ask each child to stretch his hand out and tell two things one is true and the other one is fake (a lie) and now ask the other child to press the palm of the child with his one finger at who is telling the two things. Ask the other child to take a turn & repeat this activity

When the child is telling a lie when his friend applies pressure on his pattern his palm will go down. But when the child is telling a truth when his friend applies pressure his palm will not go down. Because when we tell a child we will always take confidence because we feel guilty but when we talk truth we will very confident and our whole body will support us for the truth.

Writing down the whole painful episode (worst episode)- Writing down the worst personal incidents of life. Children can be put in pairs and write and discuss it with their friends

Explain to the children that they can write down the entire painful episodes that have occurred in their lives and they can talk it out with their close friends or pairs.

When we talk about the whole worst episode we re-live the moment, we relive the incident that makes our thoughts complete about that incident. When we re-live that incident we get relieved of the emotional pain of the worst incident.

When anything is a forced rule, you always try to get around it. For example, you always speed when you don't see the policeman. When you follow rules blindly without understanding their spirit, this is what happens – you just wait for an excuse to break them

Honestly answer yourself: if there were no rules, no regulating authority to keep a check on what you did, would you be the same person as you are now? Would you be doing things in the same way as you do now? If your answer is no, be very clear that the rule is coming from your conscience, not from your consciousness. You have not internalized the spirit of the rule or you do not agree with the rule. That is the reason you are not doing things in a way natural to you.

You can see, when you tell children not to do something, they will be most tempted to do it. As long as you don't mention anything about doing it or not doing it, they may not even be bothered about it. But the moment you tell them not to do something, they will be looking to do it.

A Small Story: One man says, 'I found three ways to get things done.' His friend asks, 'What are the three ways?' The man replies, 'First, do it yourself. Second, hire someone to do it. Third, tell your kids not to do it. That's all, it will be done!'

Actually there is a taste, a thrill in doing what you are not supposed to do. Most of the time, you develop an instant urge for something if you are asked not to do it. You feel a kind of joy or satisfaction by doing it. That is the basic tendency in every human being.

People come and ask me, 'How do I make my son do what I advice him to? I know it is good for him but he won't listen to me.' You have to understand two things. First thing, if they feel that something is giving them happiness, just let them be. Only life can teach them, you cannot teach them. You cannot teach anybody, only life can teach. You can put a few words into them so that it echoes when life teaches them the same thing, that's all.

Second thing, unless they need help, your help cannot help them. When they need your help they will come. See, your idea of happiness and unhappiness has come out of your experience. Just think, did you listen to your father when you were young? No. You did not. Taking Responsibility for your choices-The only way to raise consciousness of self and others. When something is told to you, if you take full responsibility of deciding whether it is right or wrong, you can avoid all guilt feelings

If you don't take responsibility for your decision, you will feel discontented whether you do the action or not. If you do as you are told, you will feel that you are being dominated, that you are not being assertive, that you are being exploited. If you don't do as you are told, you start feeling guilty that maybe it was the right thing to do.

. There is no need for this unnecessary dilemma. Just be simple. Respond intelligently. Take responsibility for doing whatever you are going to do. Then there is no question of guilt. If you are not going to do it, explain clearly to the person why you are not going to do it. When you explain, the other person may agree with you and may even be thankful to you for it

Or he may have stronger and better reasons than you to justify what he is saying, then you will be thankful to him for raising your intelligence. In this way, you could use every opportunity, every moment in life to raise your intelligence, to raise you consciousness.

Instilling I'm each child that taking responsibility for your choices is The only way to raise consciousness of self and others.

• What is the best rule in life?
• What do we mean when we say "participate with yourselves"?
• What is proving?
• Where is it coming from?
• What should we accept?
• When should we unclutch?
• How to use 'Thank you'? Are we using 'Thank you' to be polite or is it helping us to melt down?
• How can we express compassion? Why shouldn't we compare?

--} White sheet, Pencil (or) Sketch pen

Give each child the materials needed. Encourage the children to draw any picture blind folded. Children then can see the picture which they have drawn and talk about it.

Connect to the concept that guilt makes us blind so that we cannot see the real picture Explain to the children when we are in guilt we will not make correct decisions, we cannot see the real picture

Part 3: Guilt