Bhagavad Gita - Book 15, Volume 5

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

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ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

FIRST THOUGHT

Materials needed

A small booklet for each child that they can transform into a journal, pen, pencil, eraser, etc

Procedure:

First, give context by telling the students that the first thought with which we get up from our bed plays a major role in our enrichment throughout the day. Tell them to always go to sleep in the space of completion and to wake up with a spiritual thought of completion. Tell them that they will notice their face changing, their eyes having a new look and their body radiating grace.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

FIRST THOUGHT

Ask the children to write down what they remember thinking last before going to bed (what incompletions, thoughts were there) and the first thing they remember thinking in the morning when they woke up (what made them get up).

Then ask them to reflect by writing a short paragraph explaining how the cognition they woke up with affected the whole day. Ask each student to share their realization and end the activity by giving the guidance written in the inference section below

Inference

The few moments immediately after we wake up are crucial. Whatever we feel will be reflected the rest of the day. If we radiate joy, our whole day will be joyful. If we are irritable, our whole day will be irritable. What is our first thought usually? First we feel awake. We feel our body. Then it may be the fear that we must go to our office or it may be the greed to finish some work. At the stroke of the thought, fear or greed, our body jumps out of bed. We connect to our body through fear or greed. Kṛṣṇa says that if we catch our body with fear or greed, we attract more and more fear or greed throughout the day. There are many gates to enter the body. Never enter through the fear or greed gate.

Get up with a spiritual

thought that brings completion in you

Remember your Master or
favorite God and thank Him.
Thank Him for the extended
life. Everyday that you wake up
is an extension to your life on
planet Earth. Thank Divinity for
the grace, for the extension. Let
your first thought be spiritual.
Practice it consciously for a few
days. Then it will become your
routine. Be grateful to the
Divine for this day and
extension here. Completion
forms the basic rule for
gratitude, enlightenment, and
liberation