INTRODUCTION🔗

Here is Arjuna's dilemma spoken plainly. The problem that Arjuna faced is one that we all face when asked to do unpleasant things to people we know. It is always easier to criticize and punish people one does not know. To be faceless is to be fearless. With people one knows, there is a danger of breaking the relationship through perceived negative behavior, even when it may be fully justified. To face this incompletion in one's relationships, one must first develop detachment that allows action without worrying about the consequences. This detachment only comes from completion with every relationship with oneself and with others in one's life. One follows the path of completion and leaves the result to the process. As long as the path is right, whatever destination the path takes one to, will also be right.

Completion is removing the delusion of incompletion, which makes you cognize that the other is separate from you. Understand, incompletion has no existence; it is only a delusive cognition. Incompletion is the delusive cognition that stands between you and the Whole. Complete with everything.

To overcome this isolation, this incompletion we need to realize that no man is an island. We are all connected at the spiritual level.

When we arrive on planet Earth, we are complete, integrated beings. We are open to all possibilities. Over time, we build walls believing that these walls will keep us safe and that the connections that we have established inside the walls are ours to keep. We create a delusory cognition that we possess everything within the wall. Slowly, the open space we started with becomes a maze and we are lost inside! The islands need to be bridged. We need to complete with everyone, with everything instead of isolating them and competing. Competition does not ensure survival; completion does. Understand, with competition you may have survival success, but you will never expand. Success in crisis moments is only survival success, not life success. Success in life happens only with completion.

MIRROR IMAGE

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE:

Keep a picture or object in front of the mirror and ask each child to see the image in the mirror and draw the picture on the paper with pencil or sketch.

When we complete with everything, animate and inanimate, we will experience the space of non-duality, advaita, where there is no one, no two.

MIRROR THE OTHER PERSON

Goal: To help understand the topic of Advaita

Procedure: Introduce the game and then encourage ALL to play the game with lots of focus.

Presentation: Ask the children 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 to do the action first and to copty the action.

Procedure:

Sit in groups and discuss your Realationships and Incompletions.

Life is continuously happening in front of us. Arjuna is frightened in front of the eyes of life; from his disowned self, his relationships which are his forgotten extensions. This anxiety, fear, shivering is nothing but the expression of the incompletions Arjuna was carrying. See, relationships are nothing but our own extensions. Relationships are not outside; they are just our own extensions. The 'you' extended outside you is our relationships. Completing with all our extensions, we will learn to complete the incomplete 'you,' if present in other.

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