Empower Yourself With Responsibility🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Svadharma - Fight you are a Kṣatriya!

By fighting as your own responsibility demands, you earn merits and go to heaven.

Your dharma is your responsibility

You are responsible for everything happening around you.

You have the ability to decide how you want to feel!

Kṛṣṇa works on Arjuna at two levels. At one level He talks to Arjuna at the super conscious plane educating him on what the ultimate Truth is. He talks to Arjuna about how the undying and indestructible spirit lives on.

Here, Kṛṣṇa addresses Arjuna's fears about killing his svajanam, his relatives, elders and teaches him that what he considers to be the end of life for these people is just one step in their journey.

Kṛṣṇa then descends to the practical level at which Arjuna exists and begins addressing his svadharma, Arjuna's own dharma, the natural path of his responsibility. Kṛṣṇa explains to Arjuna why, from a societal point of view, he should not run away from the battlefield, but instead, stay onand fight as behaves a warrior.

Kṛṣṇa here addresses Arjuna as kṣatriya, the warrior. In each society there are groups of people who are the designated protectors of that society. They are the warriors, the soldiers, who defend their country and countrymen. In the same manner, there are others who are designated as clerics and priests, as teachers, as businessmen and as workers.

When Kṛṣṇa refers to Arjuna as a kṣatriya, he is referring to the entire personality of Arjuna, the great warrior, which has been decided only partly by birth and mostly by training based on his aptitude.

Arjuna is the quintessential warrior who knows no fear, and yet is now disturbed by issues of whether he is doing right or wrong by fighting against his kinsmen.

❖ Helping each child understand svadharma.

❖ What is Kṛṣṇa teaching Arjuna in these verses?

❖ What is svadharma?

❖ How does Kṛṣṇa address Arjuna?

❖ What is the responsibility of a kṣatriya?

❖ How did Arjuna become a warrior?

❖ Why is Arjuna tormented here?

DRAW INNER CHATTER

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Explain to the children about inner chatter. Inner chatter is the continuous flow of negative thoughts which did not allow us to be in the present. Ask the children to do the pictorial representation of inner chatter.

INFERENCE

Explain to the children that worry is the inner chatter created by negative thoughts. The more the inner chatter, the more we are away from the present.

Encourage children to explain the effects of too much of watching tv. New research reports that adults who watch three or more hours of TV a day have more physical, mental and psychological health problems. Obesity, eye problems, poor grades, distractions etc are a few of the many problems caused in children and adults.

PROCEDURE: Encourage the children to do the SDK. Ask them to visualize and write down the incidents in their lives where they felt depression. They can write as many incidents as they can.

3. Listen to the completion stories of at least five other people. Teaching Samaskara Dahana Kriya, making people do Samskara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful way of spreading global peace.

INFERENCE:

Most things die down or disappear over time. Anything created out of the space of completion stands eternally.

PROCEDURE Encourage the children first discuss incidents where they forgot, then guide them to do the SDK. Ask them to visualize and write down the incidents in their lives where they forgot. They can write as many incidents as they can.

1. Sit and visualize and then relive them in your inner space and relieve them from your lives.

2. Do this at least 5 times or till you stop seeing the effect of those past thoughts on your life.

4. Then sit with 5 other people individually and go on sharing with them. These five people can be your father, mother, sibling and friends.

5. Listen to the completion stories of at least five other people. Teaching Samaskara Dahana Kriya, making people do Samskara Dahana Kriya is the most powerful way of spreading global peace.

BOOK II, VOLUME VIII