Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12

ASSESSMENTS

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❖ Can a person who has not
had any spiritual experience
teach the scriptures? Why?

❖ What is enriching others
with spiritual truths? Why is
enriching others with love
important? Is enriching
equal to devotion?

❖ Why is the Bhagavad Gita in the form of a song?

ART OF THE DAY:

REPLICATE FAMOUS PAINTINGS

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Printouts of famous paintings

Paper, pencil, crayons

PROCEDURE The class coordinator will distribute the print outs of famous paintings, for example: Mona Lisa (Leonardo Da Vinci), Shakuntala (Raja Ravi Verma), the Last Supper (Leonardo Da Vinci), The Starry Night (Vincent Van Gogh), The persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali), Guernica (Pablo Picasso) etc. Each child must attempt at making a copy of the original painting.

INFERENCE A copied painting is most likely to deviate from the original in certain details like colour, shape, size etc or even the idea behind the image, depending on the skill and authenticity of the copier. Same way, a copied experience deviated from the original.

A stylized illustration of a young sadhu with dark hair, wearing rudraksha beads and a gold pendant, framed by two golden feathers.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

Let’s play chinese whispers. Make the children sit in a circle. Then the class coordinator shall whisper a sentence or phrase to one child, who shall then whisper it to the next child, and the cycle will continue till the last child in the circle hears it. This last child will have to announce what he heard to the class. If the last child hears it exactly as the teacher had first said, then the whole group wins. Repeat the cycle till the group gets it right.

INFERENCE:

A direct spiritual experience is better
than trying to understand the ultimate
truths from someone else's spiritual
experience.

Image of a divine figure wearing a turban and jewelry, alongside a feather illustration

A portrait of a person with a decorated turban and jewelry

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Topic of discussion is “Truth must be experienced to be expressed.”

Conclusion: By expressing an understanding of someone’s experience, one may express a fact or an opinion at best, but never the truth. Truth must be experienced to be expressed.