Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
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ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
MATERIALS: Eye-bands
PROCEDURE:
- Let us do a short meditation
- ask the students to stand up and place themselves so that they can't touch each other even with arms spread wide
- Each student to cover their eyes with an eye-band
- the person guiding the meditation to use a very soothing, calm voice, talking slowly, softly yet clearly and audible to all
- tell the students to imagine they are flying like a bird. They don't move from where they are standing, they can only use their arms like wings
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
PROCEDURE:
- First they can flap their "wings" a lot as they take off. then they fly and glide through the sky. Encourage them to imagine they are flying effortlessly, that the air is supporting them, the sun is shining warm;y on them, and the flying and gliding fills them with joy
- Encourage them to feel they are part of a joyous flock of birds, all flying through the sky together.
- After a little while, tell the students that they are now gracefully landing from their "flight" and ask them to slowly sit down where they are. Tell them to now be very silent, very peaceful for a few moments
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ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
PROCEDURE:
- If possible, play a few minutes of soothing music
- Finish the meditation by chanting: "om, shanti, shanti, shanti" or the poorna mantra
- Slowly, very slowly, they may take off their eye-bands and open their eyes
INFERENCE:
- For living we need to learn this whole science of completion, the space of thoughtless awareness.
- Kṛṣṇa conveys the single message: Experience His consciousness, the thoughtless awareness or the witnessing
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