WORKSHOP OF THE DAY — Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11

Vaakyartha sadas – love and compassion

Materials required

❖ 1 large Poster paper ❖ Water colors, ❖ Brushes ❖ Any other preferred art/craft materials can be used: paints, crayons paper of different colors, ❖ magazines, ❖ newspaper ❖ glue ❖ Scissors

Have an experience creating as a group, not as an individual. let's make a collage for the topic love and compassion. Each child will add their own unique part but with the consideration that this is only a part of the whole picture/collage. ask the children to talk about how they plan to express their love and compassion using different colors or shapes etc. Which color or shape do they associating love with? Ask them for different words describing their emotions, understanding or experiences.

Vaakyartha sadas – love and compassion

Have an experience creating as a group, not as an individual. let's make a collage for the topic love and compassion. Each child will add their own unique part but with the consideration that this is only a part of the whole picture/collage. ask the children to talk about how they plan to express their love and compassion using different colors or shapes etc. Which color or shape do they associating love with? Ask them for different words describing their emotions, understanding or experiences. • Children are to sit in a circle on the ground or around the table. • Explain the process of creating a collage together. • ask then to them visualize then describe the colors or shapes they see, how would they paint the emotions they feel in their heart? • Name the art project together, discuss the name as a group.

Inference:

It is ultimately the surrender of the devotee to the master, like the surrender of the infant to the mother, that evokes unconditional love.

Conclusion:

Love must flow from our being. Love happens when we experience cosmic consciousness, when we have a spiritual experience, when our ego disappears. Krsna lays out the whole technique for us, step-by-step. After a spiritual experience, so much gratitude flows from our being, so much love overflows from our being, that we start radiating it. We need not make an effort, it just flows. We cannot stop it. No one can show or experience love unless they have had a spiritual experience.