Integrity Teaches Responsibility In Action🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Success is natural.

Yoga is completion with the Divine.

Kṛṣṇa says, ‘You have the right and responsibility to work. You have no responsibility or right to the results of that work. Do not focus on the result and make it either a pattern of greed to chase or fear to stay away from. Do what you have to do with a centered mind, a complete inner space without worrying about whether you will succeed or fail.

One of the biggest problems human beings have is this—you love to be successful, but you deeply believe that you are a failure. This is one of the biggest paradoxes. This shows the lack of integrity in yourthinking. Understand, some of your actions may be a failure, some of your decisions or dimensions may be a failure, but YOU are never failure, because you are still breathing!

AND AUTHENTICITY

Listen. Awareness of what Kṛṣṇa says here is the solution to all our day-to-day problems. Do what you have to do as your right and responsibility, without worrying about the results. Do not act with hopes of a certain reward. Do not stop doing what you need to do because you are afraid of what may lie ahead.

Constantly bring integrity to your thinking, authenticity to your feeling, responsibility to your actions, enriching to your lifestyle! You will see, you will realize an extraordinary space in your life, what Kṛṣṇa calls as being balanced in success and failure and being complete in yoga.

With integrity, you will literally clean your inner space of the constant unwanted beliefs that you carry, like the strong belief that you will be a failure.

This continuous belief holds you from taking responsibility for your actions, makes you worry about the results, and leads you towards failure! When you start thinking with integrity, you will diagnose those self-fulfilling negative prophecies that you constantly give to yourself.

Listen. When you take responsibility with authenticity, consciousness starts growing more intensely in the body! Shrinking does not happen. Bring integrity; you will understand that success is the natural flow of your life.

ENLIGHTENMENT?

Integrity is the first lesson of spiritual life. If you bring integrity to your inner space, you will realize that you are attracting everything in your life, whether it is wealth or poverty, right or wrong. You are responsible for your life.

When you are in completion, with integrity, without internal conflict or contradictions, whatever you project on the cosmos is a project for the cosmos! Simply cosmos does it. That is the power of integrity!

Yoga is your realization of your own Self, your realization that you are divine. It is the state of completion, the state of truth, the state of the present, when all that you do will be in righteous consciousness, dharma.

WHEN WE LINK THOUGHTS.

So, do not link thoughts and create a shaft of thoughts. Unclutch from your thoughts by bringing integrity and weed out all your negative self- fulfilling patterns. Listen! Constantly listening to your own inner space is the beginning of integrity. If your inner space says that there is nothing more to listen, if only silence is there, then that is the end of integrity. As long as you are hearing something from your inner space, it is lack of integrity. Go on listening. Even while you are in action, karma— sitting, driving, talking or walking, listen to you. Integrity is the basic requirement for Unclutching. When you are in a state of an unclutched inner space, you are in completion and you are in the present moment, where regrets of your past and expectations of the future are absent from your mind. Whatever you do in such a state of completion would be the right thing to do. You are not influenced either by fear or greed regarding the outcome. You do what you have to do, naturally.

❖ Helping each child understand the power of integrity.

❖ Helping the children come to a space of listening.

❖ What is one of the biggest problems human face?

❖ What is the solution to our day-to-day problems?

❖ What does integrity teach?

❖ What is vāk siddhi?

❖ Define yoga.

❖ When does suffering happen?

❖ How can you tell that there is a lack of integrity in you?

❖ What is the connection between integrity and unclutching?

❖ What is the connection between completion and unclutching?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

🖍 Give each child two plain papers, a carbon sheet and a picture. 🖍 First have each child draw the picture on their own on the paper. 🖍 Then, guide the child to place a carbon sheet in the right position, placing the ink side on the paper and trace the paper. 🖍 Show them the impressions seen on the white sheet. Ask each child to draw directly on paper and then with a carbon sheet and compare the two.

Integrity cleanses your inner space of unwanted beliefs.

LISTEN CLOSELY

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE: Students will need to listen to each other closely and listen for what's out of place in this activity. Divide students into pairs or groups and give each a unique, slightly odd secret phrase; for example, "three happy elves live in my basement." Get them to plan a dialogue that incorporates the secret phrase once or twice. When they've finished planning, let them perform the dialogue for the class. While watching, students try to guess the secret phrase and write it down accurately; they must also write how many times it was said. Give points to students who found the phrase and its repetitions. The student with the most points is the winner.

INFERENCE: Constantly listening to your own inner space is the beginning of integrity.

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

METHOD

PROCEDURE For 21 minutes, ask the children/ teenagers to sit in silence with a pen and paper and to make a list of all the words they have given to themselves and to others and haven't fulfilled. Then, ask them to discuss concrete steps they will take to fulfill their words now or help them complete. Give them 24 hours to actually do the steps they have shared in the group and ask them to write a short essay telling about it.

BOOK II, VOLUME XII