INTRODUCTION🔗

What is the Why of my Life?' cries Arjuna

It takes a lot of courage of authenticity to bring integrated listening to our thinking, to stop and question our lives, our actions and society’s plan for us. Understand, the attitude of asking ‘WHY’ needs awareness, but we forget to ask the ‘why’. We don’t take our thoughts, words and deeds to the logical conclusion. It takes authenticity, the power of thinking, the inner strength to say to the world, ‘Stop, I want to get off; I want to know why am I doing, what I am doing? I want to seek true inner bliss!’

It takes tremendous courage of authenticity to recognize the transitory nature of life and its limited offer of happiness, to say — ‘I want something more.’ It takes enormous courage to complete with the materialism of the world to seek one’s true purpose in life. I tell you, if just the ‘why’ is kept alive, ‘why am I feeling powerless?’, ‘why am I feeling tired’, ‘why am I feeling sick?’, ‘why am I depressed?’; just if the ‘why’ is strong enough to take you to the logical conclusion, our problems will be solved. If we just keep this one question alive, ‘Why am I doing what I am doing?’ and are able to take this one question to the logical conclusion in our life, I tell you, we will be enlightened. You will radiate enriching!

What is the purpose of my life, Kṛṣṇa?’ wailed Arjuna.

Arjuna is now thinking with integrity and questioning himself, his training and his purpose when faced with the task of fighting against his kinsmen. The scene from his chariot has taken him off balance! In his heart he knows that what he is about to do is correct. All of his training as a kṣatriya confirms this as well. But when faced with the reality of actually killing those who have been near and dear to him, he loses his will. He is feeling completely powerless. Why?

Arjuna argues that the reason one would fight to gain power and wealth was for the sake of one's near and dear ones. However, his near and dear ones were the people with whom Arjuna should fight! Even if they killed him, he would not consider killing them at any cost, 'If I would not kill them for all the riches of the three worlds, why would I destroy them for the sake of earth, this one world, alone? Arjuna questioned Kṛṣṇa. When asking, Arjuna calls Kṛṣṇa as Madhusūdana, which means the slayer of the demon Madhu. Arjuna implies that Kṛṣṇa may be a destroyer, but Arjuna himself would not like to be one like Him.

Arjuna is playing this same safe, inauthentic game. Understand, when we are authentic, we will commit words which express our maximum peak capacity, as per our understanding, and as per others' understanding of our peak capacity. When we unlock the power of thinking, we will be able to spontaneously focus our thoughts to achieve our highest potential.

Arjuna said he would not kill even if he were to be killed. This is just a lie. It is his own loss of identity that would result from the destruction of his lineage that was bothering him. Arjuna then went on to say that he would not consider killing his kinsmen and teachers, even if he were offered all the three worlds of this universe in return. Why then, he queries, would the reward of just this planet earth be attractive to him?

Who was offering Arjuna the three worlds anyway? The notion was a pure figment of his overexcited imagination. If Krsna had actually offered Arjuna the control of the universe, Arjuna's dilemma would have become far worse! However, posing it as a symbolic question as Arjuna did made him look noble.

1. What comparison of a reward did Arjuna mention for being in battle ?

2. Are there any relationships in your life that you had but due to incompletions, that relation was broken?

3. How was Arjuna courageous?

4. What happens when we unlock the power of thinking?

5. What is authenticity?

CHAKRA DRAWING

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE:

Talk to the children about the Muladhara Chakra and show the picture of the Muladhara Chakra to the children. Encourage the children to see the picture of Muladhara Chakra and draw the chakra. Muladhara - Desire - Fantasy/ Reality Muladhara means 'the root and basis of existence'. Mula means root and adhara means basis. This chakra is locked by fantasy and imagination and it flowers when you drop your fantasies and welcome reality. Drop your imagination and start living with reality. When this chakra is opened you become so sensitive and loving: When the energy of this chakra is transformed, it will overflow from you as love, just drop your expectations and you will find a tremendous upsurge of energy.

Understanding about Muladhara Chakra helps children to understand themselves Review the importance of keeping the Muladhara Chakra cleansed and also assuming responsibility to your actions

Materials Needed:

Variation: If the materials are not available, the students can draw the concept on paper and make a collage.

Procedure:

The point of this illustration is that we are constantly learning, always getting inputs. Our brains are always working and finding new things, we just have to be open to it. One more interpretation of this activity is that our wants and wishes keep on changing and it is very difficult to satisfy all our wants. Our mind always wants more and more, when we understand this we can easily differentiate our true needs from borrowed desires.

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Procedure:

Encourage the children to discuss how much of a part of them is a particular person.

For example: How much of you is a worker (ex) Do you feel you are very responsible, finish work on time. How much of you is a person who likes shopping (ex) 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 (ex) I like to dance, I like to read, I like to create poems (or) I like to sing or draw.

INFERENCE:

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.

The concepts of hell and heaven and sin were created to insert guilt and control people. Arjuna is not a fool. Arjuna understands all this perfectly. Yet, he voices his doubts as if ignorant and confused. He acts out of compassion for humanity when he articulates these doubts so that the divine Krsna can answer them, to everyone's benefit.

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