Completion Is The Meaning🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

POWERFUL COGNITION

Mokṣa or liberation is the ultimate meaning to life.

Constantly give life to the four dharmas of authenticity, integrity, responsibility and enriching. When you protect dharma, it protects you. When you are integrated to it, it is integrated to you. When you are authentic with it, it is authentic with you. When you take responsibility for it, it takes responsibility for you. When you enrich dharma, it enriches you. Only then it is possible that your energy is awakened. Only then is your energy awakened. Artha is the stuff that we pick up on our path and journey, the material things that we need to sustain ourselves.

Mokṣa or liberation is the ultimate meaning to life. The meaning of human life is you experiencing completion, and working, radiating, showering others also with the same space of completion. This is the culmination of the liberation from expectation, desires, greed and fear, and liberation from attachment to desires. This understanding that experiencing completion with non-attachment and absence of expectation leads to liberation can fill us with bliss.

A very big colourful cardboard, scissors, markers, glue, ruler, different coloured papers, etc.

The acharya separates the cardboard in 4 equal rectangles (one for each meaning of life) and asks the students to fill it with words, symbols, sentences, pictures etc. At the end, contemplate on the masterpiece created and see if anything else can be added.

Here Kṛṣṇa gives the essence of how we should lead our lives to make it meaningful with completion.

small journal for each child pen, pencil, eraser, markers, etc.

Tell the students that they have 5-10 minutes to come up with a plan of action. In the next 21 minutes, they must complete four actions (one action for each principle) and log them in their journal along with how they felt, what they cognized while performing and the reactions they received if the actions involved interacting with others. Ask the students to perform the four actions (different each time) for the next week and to log them in their journal. Follow up with them after 1 week and ask them to share about their experience of living in alignment with dharmic principles.

DAILY JOURNAL: THE FOUR DHARMAS

Constantly give life to the four dharmas of authenticity, integrity, responsibility and enriching. When you protect dharma, it protects you. When you are integrated to it, it is integrated to you. When you are authentic with it, it is authentic with you. When you take responsibility for it, it takes responsibility for you. When you enrich dharma, it enriches you. Only then it is possible that your energy is awakened. Only then is your energy awakened.

Tell the students that they are now responsible to make others understand the four meanings of life. Have them pair up and create a short presentation about the four meanings of life that they will then present in front of everyone. Ask them to include concrete examples of day-to-day life for each. After everyone is done presenting, ask the students to write a short essay about how completion makes life meaningful.

Here Kṛṣṇa says that goodness or satva is the state of completion in which there is clarity about right and wrong, and whatever we do with our body, mind and senses is done with a view to liberate ourselves from attachment and desires in order to realize that we are Divine.