Love the ultimate healing energy. Love is not any way related to two physical structures, it is not even related to your own physical structure, it is not even related to the mental qualities you carry. Love is related to awareness you carry.

the awareness you carry naturally spreads its smell in your mental structure & your body. So the awareness which your physical structure experiences if that feels connected to the awareness of some physical structure is called infatuation.

Love is a mystical power, it's a mystical capability.

If you are able to show love a little bit once in a while it is a social emotion but ever loving, radiating love, is mystical power. Ability to love will happen in you only when you are able to be in the space of Completion.

Ability to be in the space of Completion only if you can complete, and establish yourself in the space of Completion, the ability to love becomes reality in you.

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The ability, ability to forgive yourself is the first quality to start loving. Only if you can forgive yourself, if you can complete with yourself, love starts. Only then love starts expressing itself, love starts happening in you. Love can happen only when you are in the space of completion. The ability to forgive yourself, ability to love yourself, ability to live with yourself, ability to be with yourself, it's actually a power.

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Whenever we look at something, the first thing we do is to calculate what we can get from it. It can be a person or an object, that doesn't matter. Our thoughts start functioning either through fear or through greed to calculate what there is in the situation for us. Our attention is centered on that object or person.

It is possible to turn our attention towards our own inner space and ask, 'What can I contribute?' , 'What can I add?' , 'How can I enrich others?' If the process is only to ask, 'What can I get out of it?' then it is driven by lust. If the process asks, 'How can I enrich it?' it is driven by love! Lust is an energy that demands. Love is an energy that gives.

Love is an intense experience in one's inner space. Many of us think love is a choice. We think experience and expression of love are a choice. We think that if we want to, we can handle love; otherwise we can let it go. No! It is not a choice as we think. It is a basic necessity of life. It is notjust breathing and staying alive. Being alive at the innermost being level, as a live Consciousness. If you can express love, if you can experience love, that is the only way of being alive as a Consciousness. If you don't experience and express love, you may inhale and exhale, but you can't say you are a live being. There are so many animals, plants and other things that breathe day in and day out. You will continue to exist like them.

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1. Discuss happiness with the children, how celebration gives us happiness.

2. How we enjoy ourselves with our loved ones during the festival times.

3. Encourage each child to draw the picture of any celebration.

4. They can draw by viewing a few pictures of celebration.

5. They can also visualize and draw some celebration pictures.

6. Encourage children to look at their drawings and talk about how happy they are feeling

To make children understand the importance of being in the now, about the ego, about the importance of participating

Make the children sit in a circle, encourage them to play the game.

Children will sit in a circle and mentors will encourage them to talk by asking interesting questions about the children? The only one rule of the game is that the children must not use I, my, me while answering any questions. If they use these words they will be out of the game. Each child is allowed to share their experiences in turns. It is very difficult to express our views without using I, my and me. So encourage the children's effort to play this game. They can play this game only when they focus and participate in every moment.

To make the children understand how effective participation and focusing is, and so they can understand by practice that they can get rid of ego enhancing words like I, me, my. Instead of I, me, my they can use their names.

Get all the materials together and have the children gather in a circle after discussion time.

Give an illustration on how we can be filled with love and overflow onto others. First take a cup and demonstrate how the cup represents a person, and the water is love. Add other cups on top of the first cup and when the water of love is poured on the first cup, it spills over to the others as it starts overflowing! Each child can use the permanent marker to write their name on a cup and take turns to realize the concept of sharing love by being filled-up, and then letting it overflow while sharing it with their friends

Children will sit in a circle and mentors will encourage them to talk by asking interesting questions about the children? The only one rule of the game is that the children must not use I, my, me while answering any questions. If they use these words they will be out of the game. Each child is allowed to share their experiences in turns. It is very difficult to express our views without using I, my and me. So encourage the children's effort to play this game. They can play this game only when they focus and participate in every moment.

To make the children understand how effective participation and focusing is, and so they can understand by practice that they can get rid of ego enhancing words like I, me, my. Instead of I, me, my they can use their names.

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THREE PLANES OF LOVE & HOW TO TRANSCEND TO DIVINE LOVE .

Man has three planes of being, which are animal, human and divine. First is the plane of lust, which is the animal plane. It is a crude form of love. It is not that love is not present there. Love is mixed or polluted by gross greed and desire, that's all.

As our being becomes more refined, we enter the second plane, ordinary human love. Human love has traces of possessiveness and jealousy. Since human love is grounded in greater understanding than animal love, one does not simply use the other person for his or her own gain. Human love is capable of seeing the other as an end unto itself.

The third type of love is divine love. It is love in its highest form, almost like a prayer. There is no possessiveness. There is nothing earthly in it. It becomes an invisible but powerful force. This is when love becomes prayer and we feel restful contentment for the first time. I say restful because the other two types of love always keep reaching for more or keep missing something. There is no restfulness in them. When the third type of love happens, even sex becomes a deep and divine act beyond mere physical pleasure The whole work of spirituality is to create an alchemy in which the body melts into the mind, the mind melts into the soul, the soul melts into the mind, and the mind melts into the body. By and by, slowly, very slowly, they become one integrated phenomenon. Love is the outcome of it.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil or Sketch or Pen

• 1. Talk to the children about loving nature.
• 2. Explain to them how happy we feel admiring nature.
• 3. They can view any drawings of nature and draw. 4. They can draw pictures of plants, fruits or sun or sky in their own imaginative ways.
• 5. Talk to them about living close to nature, loving nature gives us tremendous pleasure.
• 6. Our inner space expands when we admire and enjoy nature.
• 7. Talk to the children about taking care of nature.

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Building Blocks (at least 7 per child) This is a fun activity that shows the importance of working together.

Gather everyone in a circle and give them 7 building blocks each and tell them to build a big airplane! Immediately they will look around and say "There is no way to do that as I only have 7 blocks. But if I join with this friend, together we will have 14." Then they will realize, "We should all join together as a team." So they mix them all up, put the blocks in the middle, and work together in unity. Someone can help with the propeller, others with the body, the wings, the tail, and together make a big airplane! Once it is finished, just sit back and admire it!

• 1. Are you able to make it on your own?
• 2. And isn't it beautiful how we all worked together in UNITY?
• 3. How do you feel? Happy/sad?
• 4. Do you feel open or closed now? Do you feel heavy or light?
• 5. Imagine if the whole world was able to work together in unity and be happy? Wouldn't that be bliss?

They all can put up their arms and shout "HAPPY!" releasing the positive energy to touch others in the world.

You can also take a picture of the completed model airplane and put it up in a common place to remind everyone that the unity they exhibited by working together and sharing is love.

Write in which 'G' they do their day to day activity.

• 1. G- Unknown
• 2. G Anger
• 3. G Greed
• 4. G Fear
• 5. G Happy, Creative, Intuitive
• 6. G-Purpose of life
• 7. G Beyond

Ask the children to contemplate and write the 'G' in which they conduct their day to day activity.

When they brush their teeth in which 'G' are they established? Whether they are working unknowingly or they are brushing out of ANGER, (or) acting out of GREED or getting something as a gift (or) working out of fear of infection, or is it out of happiness or with the thought that is the purpose of life or beyond that. Encourage each child to analyze in which 'G' they perform their different activities.

Explain to the children when you do things out of Anger, without liking it, it only leads to suffering. As we grow bigger it will become a pattern. The brain grows in patterns. Every activity which we perform must be in 5G - happy, creative, and intuitive. We need to be creative in each activity. When we are in 5G, we will be in a happy, creative, open and intuitive spectrum.

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The first kind of restlessness happens due to your circumstances. Sometimes, in a particular place or situation you feel restless. If you move from that place or situation, you feel more settled. Even under uncomfortable circumstances, if you just show a gesture of love to someone, or if someone shows a gesture of love to you, things can become instantly better for you! It can heal you. The second kind of restlessness is physical. Physical restlessness is nothing but a constant tension in your body for no particular reason. It is said that all such tension can be released when you express love to somebody. You may ask, 'How can love take away physical restlessness?' You can see for example, a mother who has a child to look after will feel continuously rejuvenated in spite of the child driving her crazy! Because of the love element, she will cope with the tension. Otherwise, taking care of children is not an easy job! The rejuvenation happens because of the love and care the mother feels for the child. Any tension or restlessness in the body disappears when you care for somebody, when you smile at somebody, when you express love in your body language, even if it is just once.

When you express yourself through your head, it is called intelligence. When you express yourself through your heart, it is felt as love. When you express yourself through your being, it is experienced as energy. When you relax into your being without expressing, it is bliss! Each one is the same energy but expressed in four different ways. So whenever you express love, you express energy also. Love is concentrated, caring energy. So naturally, whenever you express love you become a channel for healing energy. When you are a channel for energy, you not only heal others but heal yourself as well.

The third form of restlessness is mental. Any mental restlessness can be healed by love. Research indicates that when you care for pets or play with children, you reduce the possibility of heart attacks and also reduce the risk of fatal diseases! The fourth form of restlessness is emotional. Mental restlessness is different from emotional restlessness. Mental restlessness is purely intellectual and can be controlled easily. But emotional restlessness cannot be controlled by just a few words of consolation. It can be healed only when you express love. When you start radiating love, it floods your being with energy. When your being is opened to such higher energies, it heals the emotional restlessness.

Ultimately, we come to spiritual restlessness. There are so many people who can sit with others, who can sit with the television, who can sit with newspapers, but who can't sit with themselves. This is what is called spiritual restlessness. Spiritual restlessness means that you cannot sit with yourself. You can give appointments to everybody else but not to yourself! Your love for the teacher or the master can heal your spiritual restlessness. Many people come and tell me, 'Swamiji, just sitting in your presence puts us in a calm state but when we go back home, we are not able to remain in that calmness. Why is it so?' When you are in the presence of an enlightened person, you start relating, you start expressing your love towards him automatically. This heals your spiritual restlessness.

Play dough Food color (pink or orange)

1 cup flour 1 cup salt 22 cup water

Create play dough out of flour, salt, and water. Knead the dough, so as to be pliable enough to be formed into shapes.

This is a simple activity which will cement the concept of having love in our inner space.

Where do we experience love?

In our inner space, inside our heart. It is not available outside. Distribute a piece of play dough to each child, add a few drops of food coloring and knead it to distribute the coloring uniformly. They can shape the dough into a heart and decorate it as they please. Else we can also have them draw and color a heart on a chart paper.

Give everyone a block of ice, and have them blow on the ice cube and say words of love to rid themselves of the ego and watch the ice melt into pure liquid love.

Love is being in the flow with life and everything around us, ego is like frozen ice. Talk about love, the illustration of love being like water, always moving, giving us life and health. Ego is like hard rock. It is not able to move. It is just like a frozen block of ice, closed and cold, not able to give and receive the power of love. Ego is always holding on to 'mine' , 'l' and the ice cube thinks it is so important. But if we are able to let go and become "egoless" , we will become love instead.

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Love is being in the flow with Existence, to be totally with it. Ego is like frozen ice. Love is like liquid water. Only when we are liquid do we become part of the ocean. Then we don't have any private goal or destination. Each moment is blissful, incredibly ecstatic, just going with the plan of the cosmos. The mind is part of the ego. It knows how to close, but it does not know how to open. To love means to open up, to surrender. It means opening up to Existence, to the flowers, to the bees and to the stars. How do we open to this beautiful music that fills the whole of Existence? How do we open up to this celebration that goes on and on – flowers dancing in the wind, trees enjoying the wind and the stars, always in a state of bliss? Except for man, everything else seems to be in harmony. Man falls out of harmony because he has what is called 'consciousness' which is not present in other living creatures.

Consciousness can do two things. It can create ego or it can create egolessness. If it creates ego, we live in hell. If it creates egolessness, we live in paradise. The whole world is in paradise without knowing it. When man enters paradise, he enters knowing it fully. That is the grandeur and beauty of man. That is the danger as well, because it is easier to fall into the trap of the ego and not enter into paradise than to enter paradise knowingly. The problem is that we have forgotten who we are and for what we were created. We are emperors of love, but we dream that we are beggars.

We have the whole kingdom of Existence within our being and yet we continue to beg for mundane things. We keep collecting mundane things not knowing that we have infinite, inexhaustible treasures within our being. We are oceans, yet we are thirsty because we have become disconnected from our own selves. But no matter how disconnected we are, no matter how much we have forgotten and how long we have forgotten, it can be remembered in a single moment and we can become connected immediately. Love is the connector

This is a fun activity to show the class the concept of unity. Unity connects and with love and unity, we can connect and share with the whole world.

Earbuds. Paint (different colours) Paper.

• 1. Talk about the meaning of unity. Unity is oneness, we are all part of this universe, and when we work as a team, with love and unity, we can be blissful.
• 2. Demonstrate how unity connects with a plain paper and a bud dipped in paint. Draw a shape of a heart using dots. Each of the dots represents each one of us. Then with a different colour, you can connect the dots creating a beautiful pattern. The connection of the dots represents the love in us. Love connects us in unity. It completes us.
• 3. Give each child a paper, and ask them to make a design with the concept of unity in mind (e.g. heart, circle, flower etc.)
• 4. Ask them to present their pictures and explain what it represents and they can write about it at the bottom of the page.

Sometimes we forget that we are a part of this universe.When we remember that we are all one, we will be united.

This is a lovely activity to do in a group, a meditation that all can enjoy about love.

Material required: Instrumental music (optional)

• 1. Gather the class and explain what we are about to do, ask them to close their eyes and picture themselves as love, pure liquid love overflowing to every part of their bodies.
• 2. When they have their eyes closed you can give them soft instructions while the music is playing quietly in the background. "Focus on your heart region. Exclude everything else. Focus only on the heart". "Visualize your heart as an endless reservoir from where blessings can flow ". "Feel every heartbeat deeply. Let every beat resound throughout you". "Between the heartbeats, feel the energy of love happening". "In the deepest parts of your body, mind and soul, the love energy is waiting to be acknowledged." "Invite the love energy of the heart to flow and fill these deepest parts of your body, mind and soul". 3. Slowly tell them to open their eyes.

Continue with the discussion about how we can express love. Expand on this: 'When we become love our actions will speak love.' What kind of actions can we do to express our love? Practise expressing love by using words which will express love. For example: Discuss what kind of words we will use, what kind of voice.

This meditation helps them to focus and even become love; they should carry this with them. The more effort they put into this meditation, the more they get from it.

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LOVE If the cosmos is a grand ocean, we are all part of it. We are one with the ocean, not individual drops in the ocean. When we think of ourselves as individual drops, we feel separate in our boundary and in our feelings. This is what is called ego. We become driven by feelings of 'I' and 'mine'. As long as this separation remains, we never experience the energy of the ocean that is love, we can never experience that causeless and surging love. As long as we remain a drop in the ocean, we say 'no' to life. We neither love nor trust. We don't feel blissful either because bliss is possible only for those who know how to love and trust. It happens only to those who know how to feel part of the ocean. Bliss is possible only when our heart says 'yes' , when the 'no' completely disappears from our being. 'No' is darkness, 'yes' is light. 'No' is ego, 'yes' is egolessness. 'No' is the way of the unconscious person. 'Yes' is the way of the awakened one. All the conflict, all the suffering in our life is because of our saying 'no'. 'No' is a fight, a war with Existence. 'Yes' is love, peace with Existence. 'Yes' is deep accord with the totality of who we are the ocean.

Bliss is another name for that accord, that harmony. The way to be in bliss is to dissolve into the ocean, not to be a drop but to merge with the ocean. To be a drop is to be with ego. The ego is the root of all misery. When the ego is absent, bliss reaches us from every nook and corner of the ocean of existence, as if it were just waiting for the ego to disappear. Ego is a closed state of consciousness. All the windows and doors are closed. Life itself becomes insulated and encapsulated. Our ego surrounds us like a capsule. Our ego is like a sealed capsule; there is not even a small gap to allow anything to enter. It closes itself due to fear and shrinks into itself. That is how we create misery for ourselves.

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Love without purpose is real love. Love without any condition, causeless love, unconditional love is real love. Love opens our inner space, gives us unity, tremendous courage and energy. Love can makes us finally available to ourselves.

Ego is like frozen ice and love is like liquid water. Consciousness can do two things. It can create ego, or it can create egoless. If it creates ego we live in hell, if it creates egoless we live in paradise.

To make them aware of the topic of ego, I, mine, how ego closes inner space and Love opens us to the energy of Love. Cause them to choose to live egoless way and experience paradise.

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• 1. What are the things you love to do?
• 2. What is ego? Which part of us is ego?
• 3. Do babies have ego?
• 4. When do we have full attention?
• 5. Which is the close state of consciousness?
• 6. Which is the opposite of love?
• 7. What do you feel when you feel you are powerful?
• 8. Whom do you want to be your friend, a person who has ego or a person who is open and without ego?
• 9. How does one's ego affect a person's inner space?
• 10. How does consciousness create ego/ egoless state? What would be the outcome in both?
• 11. Can love be created?
• 12. Can love be made to happen by our logical decision?
• 13. Can love be conditional?
• 14. Why is love unconditional?
• 15. What is causeless love?

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Follow the path of love and be courageous and lovable.

• 1. Paper
• 2. Pencil or Sketch or Pen

Ask the children to think about global peace and ask them to draw what they understand by global peace. Every one can imagine a picture about global peace and draw that picture.

1 sponge per child 1 large stone Tub Water

Fill up the tub halfway with water and have the children gather in a circle for this activity.

Take the large sponge and show it to the class. Ask everyone what it is. Can it absorb water? What does the water represent? Answer: Love If we are an open person, able to give and receive love we are able to be fill ed with lov e ...just like the spong e . Demonstrate how the sponge absorbs the water and is filled to overflowing. The sponge is able to float on the water and also absorb at the same time. Like the sponge, we need to be open, living life as an open and beautiful person who is also able to be full of love and happily live life. But the stone is hard and closed with no love. It is neither able to absorb love nor live life happily. Demonstrate how it is not able to absorb the water of love. You can pour water over it but the water only runs down with no effect. Also when it is dropped into the water, it only sinks! What do you want to be? The sponge or the stone? Give each of them a sponge and let them all have their sponges absorb the water, and show how they can be open and filled with love.

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O. LOVE DOES NOT POSSESS, IT SETS THE OTHER FREE

When we receive something we tend to get possessive about it rather than wanting to share it. This possessiveness o block further bounties. The more we give, the more we get; sharing should happen by expressing the oneness in us that everything and everyone is part of us. This is real or purposeless love or causeless love. When we have love we cannot get irritated life is all about our beliefs. Love as much as you can, without asking for anything in return. Society never approves letting go. But have the courage to let go, share love and be happy. Real Love is something so deep, so energizing, that you will not know it unless you experience it. Real Love knows no object.

Real Love is the subject itself. We enslave the person in the name of love. If we love a person completely we will never feel guilty of missing them. True love always gives without asking. To be loving, means to become integrated. Whenever our love, or our attention becomes aligned towards something in particular. We will only be materialistic; we will be creating suffering for ourselves and for others. When you start possessing someone, you bind yourself also. When we place our attention on an object, we miss the inner experience of love that happens. Excitement or energy is related to the experience itself, not to the object. Real love simply liberates both of you. It gives freedom to you and the other person. Real love does not look for utility.

Cause them to choose non-possessiveness

• 1. Poster paper
• 2. Water colors
• 3. Brushes
• 4. Any other preferred art/craft materials can be used: paints, crayons, glue, paper of different colors, scissors, magazines, newspaper

Get all the materials together and have the children gather in a circle after discussion time.

Talk about our feelings when we separate ourselves as an individual drop, separate in our boundary and in our feelings. How do we feel when we are experiencing being part of the cosmic, "grand ocean" , not individual drops. Express your love through a creative process, through the arts. Have an experience creating as a group, not as an individual. Let's make a collage for the topic love. Each child will add their own unique part but with the consideration that this is only a part of the whole picture/collage. Think how you can express your love using different colours or shapes etc. How can you add something to what has been already drawn or painted. Which colour or shape are you associating love with? It would be nice to use water colours, so that the colours can merge. How to come up with ideas for collage: Help children to come up with ideas by going over what they learned today and previously about LOVE. What was the most touching thing? Ask them for different words describing their emotions, understanding or experiences. Name your art project together.

1.Children are to sit in a circle on the ground or around the table.

2.Explain the process of creating a collage together.

3. Make them visualize the colors or shapes they see, how would they paint the emotions they feel in their heart?

• 4. Use colors to express your love on the canvas.

To make the children become awa re of the responsibility, awareness.

Make the children sit in a circle with their friends. Ask the child to create or draw something about compassion.

Each child can use the materials available and they can make a craft or art related to compassion. Children are asked to carry the treasure they made to all the places they visit, wherever they go for nearly one week. This improves their responsibility, awareness and memory. They can term the treasure as the treasure of their inner space.

Their activity enhances the children to improve their memory and inculcate responsibility and awareness.

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The attention-need, along with our dependency on others for survival, is what we experience as love with purpose. Expectations are the first enemy of love. When we ask for love, we are actually asking only for the person's attention. When we say a person doesn't love us, we actually mean that the other person doesn't give us enough attention. The basic need for any human being is attention from others. The attention-need, along with our dependency on others for survival, is what we experience as love. The person who is not satisfied, not confident, and not happy with themselves only will strive for attention from outside. The dependency on the others might be psychological, physical or spiritual. The whole idea of love with a purpose is nothing but getting the attention of the others in some way. We love anyone who pays us compliments. We secretly nurture a good name with in the name of love. Like this there is always some hidden reason for our love with purpose. The relationship can also happen causelessly, without any reason. To experience this we have to try relating with someone for no reason. Only then we will understand that the experience of love is much more important than the object of love.

To make them understand that love with conditions is not true love.

• 1. Chart paper
• 2. Scissors
• 3. Sketch pens and/or Color pencils, Crayons

Each person should get a chart paper cut into a heart shaped card. There should be enough colouring materials for everyone to share. Discussion: Talk about the term "Causeless Love" – Love without a purpose. What it means and how to try it out with the people you meet. You can give an example of a new student coming to join their class, and with no ulterior motives or purpose, what is something you could to make him/her feel comfortable and welcome? Ask each child for examples. The beautiful thing about causeless love is that although you are helping someone or giving someone love, for no personal gain: you are giving yourself love as well! Through loving others, you receive love too

And it heals you from feeling restless. How can you feel uncomfortable when you are busy helping someone else? Feeling uncomfortable or shy is just thinking about yourself, worrying about what other people are thinking about you! But if you love someone else, you open your heart to give love, and you receive love through being open! "Love is meant to be shared!" "Love was not meant to stay in your heart, love is not love until you give it away!" Explain that as an activity for causeless love, we are going to make a card, and give it away to a complete stranger! Why?

Because that is a form of causeless love; giving something from your heart. With no purpose other than you love them as another being in this universe and want to make the whole world happy! Love is contagious, love is like a smile. Smile at someone, not just with your face, but with your heart, and they will feel the love and in turn smile at others. I believe we could make the whole world a happier place if we sent smiles all over the world creating positive energy! Allow each one to colour and decorate their card, and give their gift away to a complete stranger and come back with their story of whom they gave it to, and how it made them feel.

• 1. You are so nice
• 2. I Love you so much
• 3. You are such a nice person
• 4. You are so innocent
• 5. I admire you a lot
• 6. You are a very responsible person

• 1. You are irritating me so much
• 2. I hate you
• 3. I will not talk to you
• 4. I did not like you
• 5. You are not behaving nicely
• 6. You are making me mad

Continue with the discussion about how we can express love. Expand on this: 'When we become love our actions will speak love.' What kind of actions can we do to express our love? Practise expressing love by using words which will express love. For example: Discuss what kind of words we will use, what kind of voice.

This meditation helps them to focus and even become love; they should carry this with them. The more effort they put into this meditation, the more they get from it.

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Very often love is confused with respect. From young age children are brought up to show respect but not how to show love. We often say ' you should respect your elders' , we hardly hear, ' you should love your elders' that is the problem; respect sows the first guilt in you that you are something inferior. It makes us feel separate from the other person to whom we show respect; on the other hand, love sows the seeds of joy and unity in you. It makes you feel connected with the other person and with everything. With respect, there is always accompanied fear; with love there is authentic respect as well as understanding. Love by its very nature is transforming it softens and melts you. Respect creates distance between you and the other. Respect is easier but not real and it depends on circumstances. Every single tree, every single stalk of a plant responds to your love. Plants respond to human thought in a way similar to how a human being would respond.

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Explain to the children why they feel upset when they are alone. It is because of our attention we feel upset when we are alone. Ask each child to imagine about loneliness and to depict that in pictures. Encourage each child to speak about which they drew.

Paper (1 per person) Pencil (1 per person)

Have enough paper and pencils for everyone. Each person will write the name of their classmates on separate sheets of paper. For each of the classmates, they will need to write three positive points.

Gather the class together and talk about positive thinking. How important it is to be a friend and look at each other through eyes of love, remembering their good points and not their bad ones. Give each child a paper with all their friends' names on it and ask them to go to different corners to write 3 points about each person. When they are all finished, for each child, compile all the nice things that were written about them by other children on a new sheet of papers. Now for each child you will have one paper.

• Always fun to be around!
• He is great at art and draws and colours really well.
• He is sweet and kind to those around him!

Give that to the respective children and ask them to decorate their paper with colour pencils. Ask them to read it aloud. Ask them how they felt. Instruc t them to ke ep the s e lists about thems e l v e s to r emembe r wha t a spe c i a l individual they really are! Extension: Make a book mark with the list of positive notes and give to each child.

• 1. Small disposable cups (2 per child)
• 2. Earth (Soil) (enough to fill the cups half way) or cotton
• 3. Mustard seeds
• 4. Water
• 5. Permanent marker

Fill the cups half full with earth (soil). Have enough cups so that each child will receive 2 cups. 1 cup with the word love written on it, and 1 cup with the word anger. Both cups should also have the children's name written on it, so they can differentiate and take care of their own cups.

Talk about positive and negative energy. How positive energy gives us strength and negative energy makes us sick and ill. Studies have proven that plants have feelings too, that when they are subjected to anger, they do not grow well, but when they are showered with love, they flourish. So this is a bit of an experiment that we will try out. And with these cups, we will put the mustard seeds inside and put just a bit of water every day. Now with the cup of love, we are going to say all sorts of positive things, direct positive energy towards it, and talk to it, and they can even name their plant if they like. With the anger plant, we are going to direct all our anger towards. Talk to it negatively, when you are feeling upset go and discuss it with your plant, shout at it! And over the period of 2 weeks, keep observing how the 2 plants grow. The love plant will flourish, and the anger plant will wither or show stunted growth.

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THE SPH THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Review the previous day 's topic, ask questions related to it and introduce the topic of laws of attraction. We are like magnets we attract what we are. This is called laws of attraction. What you give is what you get. Only when you know you have ego and when ego pops out you accept and fight it out. It is up to us whether to choose love and be happy or choose ego and be more upset. We get what we share, when we share our sorrows and worries we add that to our inner space when we share happiness, compassion and creativity we add that dimension to our inner space. Our inner child responds to outer world and vice versa. If the cosmos is the grand ocean, we are all part of it. We are one with the ocean, not individual drops in the ocean. When we think of ourselves as an individual drop, we feel separate in our boundary and in our feelings. This is what is called ego. As long as this separation remains, we never experience the energy of the ocean that is love. Move from thinking to feeling; from feeling to being. Be sensitive to feeling the joy of just being. Then the ego will dissolve. Ego is separateness, love is merger.

• 1. What is the law of attraction?
• 2. What happens when you share your sorrows and worries?
• 3. Whats happens when you share your compassion and happiness?
• 4. When do you get irritated?
• 5. Why do we feel separated from our feelings and our boundary?
• 6. How do we open up to Existence? (by total surrender)
• 7. What is the reason for disconnection from the whole? From our true selves? (ego)
• 8. How can we connect back? (Love connects us back to Existence)
• 9. What is the barrier of love? (fear of losing our false identity our ego, fear of dissolving ego)

Love is being in the flow with Existence, be totally with it. To love means to open up, to surrender. Love means opening up to Existence.

Paper (1 per person) Pencil (1 per person) Sketch Pen

Ask each child to discuss what they value in their life a lot. Ask them the reason why they value that specific thing. Encourage the children to visualize and think about their value of life and draw that picture.

1. Colour Feathers

Give each child a feather and ask them to blow it up in the airtry to keep it up. Imagine yourself blissful like a feather, floating in the breeze and enjoying life.

Talk about how you feel when in love - bliss. When we have so much love in our hearts, nothing will bother us. We are blissful, like a child who has no worries and trusts its parents to take care. Blissfully light like a feather. It floats on the wind and goes with the flow of things; it is open and accepts life as it comes. Because of the lack of worries, it is not weighed down, but instead dances in the wind and enjoys every breeze that comes its way

• 1. 2 disposable containers with lids.
• 2. Cooked rice Permanent marker

Have a couple scoops of cooked rice in two containers; label them one with the word anger and one with the word love. This is a scientific experiment that shows the importance of doing everything with your words straight from your heart and how emotions affect food. It is so important to see how different emotions affect everything around us, so if food is affected so drastically, imagine the effect of our negative thoughts on our health and lives of people around us

Take the 2 jars (keep the two separate so they aren't affected by the other) and pass them around so everyone can get a chance to put the feelings of anger and love into their respective jars. After everyone is finished, close up the jars and watch what happens. You will see a big difference in the way the 2 jars look after a few days. The one which was exposed to the emotions of anger will be spoiled more, but the one which was handled with deep love will be fine or will ferment normally

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Perversion is the killer of childhood, similar to a computer shutting down when we press the keys CTRL + ALT+DELETE. Perversion leads to forced shut down of our inner space. Perversion spoils the innocence. Let the innocent remain innocent. Perversion stimulates thyroid and pituitary gland to produce hormones. These hormones shut the pineal gland. Eventually the pineal gland starts to decay leading the person to produce more hormones further speeding up the process. It is essential not to introduce perversion into your mind, live as a child as long as possible. Love your body completely spend as much as time possible being with your body. Attention to our body heals and radiates leaving the body glowing. Any form of corruption from media affects our brain immediately. Being with nature is being close to the innocence.

Make the children aware of topic of perversion

Paper (1 per person) Pencil (1 per person) Sketch Pen

Ask each child how each one loves their country, family and their mother. Encourage each child to talk about the country, family and mother. Ask them to draw about the country, family and mother

• 1. Chart paper
• 2. Sketch pens or markers
• 3. Scissors

Use chart paper and cut it into small rectangles in the size of playing cards. Using the list below about love, write on each card one part of the pair.

(Written on one card) Inner Space (The pair to the first card) Where you experience love So these 2 cards make up a pair. You can draw a heart shape on the back of each playing card to make them look uniform.

• Inner Space Where you experience love
• Ego "Mine"
• Attention Concentration
• Awareness Alert
• Love Brings Unity and Courage
• Ego Power alone
• Watching Breath No Thought
• Thoughts Inner Chatter
• Causeless Love Love without a Purpose
• Deep Sleep No Thoughts, No Attention
• Too Much Chocolate Showing Love with a Purpose Restlessness - Bored
• Desire Greed No Love in Inner Space

Note: There should be 26 playing cards, and so 13 pairs.

Make sure everyone knows the terms and go over why each one has a pair and what they mean.

• Mix up the deck of cards, and give each person 3 cards.l

• Keep the extra cards in the middle of the circle for picking up when they need to "Go Fish."

• Go around, so that everyone gets a turn. Each child is supposed to find the other pair to match it with their card. The first child points to any one particular child and asks whatever is on their hand (example: "Causeless love") and the whole group gives the answer: "Love without a Purpose."

• Now, if that person pinpointed has the "Love without a purpose" card they need to hand it over, or else they will say "Go Fish". The person who asked for the pair will take an extra card from the card pile on the floor. It is now the next person's turn.

• However, if the person they ask has the card, they give them the card and they can make a pair. They also get another turn to try and make a pair by calling out any of the remaining two cards.

Explain to them how much of a part of them is a particular person.

How much of you is a worker - Do you feel you are very responsible, finish work on time. How much of you is a person who likes shopping I did not like to spend more time on shopping (or) I love to go for shopping etc How much of you like to be intelligence, creative I like to dance, I like to read, I like to create poems (or) I like to sing or draw

This gives a clear view of how much of what forms your body. If intelligence forms you, you will be very happy, energizing and growing rather than having greed or fear forming in you. If anger forms you- you will have lots of negativity