ASSESSMENTS
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True or False: Owning and
possessing mean the same
thing. When do our
problems start? What are
the driving forces of rajas?
How does rajas approach the
past, the present and the
future? In what kind of world
does rajas live in?
In what kind of world does
satva live in?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
POSSESSION, GREED AND FEAR
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Paper, pen, pencil, markers, eraser, etc.
PROCEDURE
Ask the students to draw 3 characters named “possession”, “greed” and “fear”. Once children are done drawing, tell the names of the characters one by one and ask the students to enact them through body language, sounds, etc. Let them enact each character for 1 minute. At the end, ask the children what enacting these 3 characters created inside of them/What thoughts/cognitions came up.
INFERENCE
When we want to possess that is where the problem starts. Rajas corrodes you. It eats up your soul. There is no boundary to possessing, no end to greed and no limit to fear. These are the driving forces of rajas.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
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Materials
required:
Paper, pens,
pencils, eraser,
ruler
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
PROCEDURE:
Ask the students to draw two timelines (one for rajas, one for sattva) and to identify the past, the present and the future on each. Then ask the students to take the rajas timeline and to write down things that they wish they will possess in the future and things about the past that they regret or wish they had done better. Then ask them to discuss how thinking about what they don’t have makes them feel, what cognitions come up inside them.
Materials
required:
Paper, pens,
pencils, eraser,
ruler
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
PROCEDURE:
Also ask them to discuss how thinking about things they wished they had done better in the past makes them feel. At the end of the discussion, ask the students to take the sattva timeline and to write down only what is happening right now in this moment. Ask them to share how being in the present makes them feel and what cognitions arise in them
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
INTERFERENCE
Rajas is about trying to attain what you don't have, trying to eliminate and possess what you want to have, not being complete with what you have, not being complete about where you are and not being complete and happy when you are in the present moment. You are either constantly in the future, imagining what you would like to be and what you would like to possess, or you are in the past thinking about how you could have done better.
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY
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WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
PROCEDURE Guide the students into a discussion about the difference between “owning” and “possessing”. Ask them different questions such as: How it is possible to own and to let others own at the same time? What emotions/cognitions get triggered in us when we feel something or someone as our possession? How can we know if we are owning or possessing?
CONCLUSION Rajas is living in a fantasy world of possessing. Satva is living in a reality world of owning and also letting others own.
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