BE YOURSELF: COSMOS NURTURES YOUR UNIQUENESS

VOLUME 3

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

BE
YOURSELF:
COSMOS
NURTURES
YOUR
UNIQUENESS

Source: Nithyanandapedia.org

INTRODUCTION

Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us. It does not matter whether you are a rose or a Lilly or a wild flower. The important thing is that the wild flower should realize its ultimate potential as a wild flower just as the rose should understand its inherent potential.

The fragrance of you realizing your unique potential is what radiates and without effort, touches everyone around you.

Whether it is beauty or intelligence, you are unique. We always want to be someone else, we compare with others and want to become like them. Explain what some of the aspects are, which we compare with others. When we see what somebody else has and start to compare, we borrow the desire of wanting things like them. This is called borrowed desires, which is born out of comparison.

A divine figure with a turban and jewelry, sitting on an ornate chair

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved. This borrowed desire is an example of a want, not a need. When you start spending your energy to realize borrowed desires, you feel that you don't have enough energy to fulfill all your desires. You have enough energy to fulfill all of your needs but not your wants.

GOALS

To make them understand how
we always wish to be somebody
else and how to overcome it.

ASSESSMENT

🌸 What is a need?

🌸 What is a want?

🌸 Name some of your needs?

🌸 Name some of your wants?

🌸 What is borrowed desire?

CONCLUSION

Nature has its own unique way of growth for each of us.

Be happy with what we have and who we are.

ART OF THE DAY

HAND PRINTING

MATERIALS NEEDED

Plain sheet or any picture sheet

Poster colors

PROCEDURE

Ask the children to apply paint on their hands and print them on the

paper. Encourage them to observe the paint and check whether the

five fingers they printed are same size or not.

INFERENCE

Connect to the fact our five fingers are not same size, each one is of a different size, each one has unique functions so when we cannot compare between our own fingers it is not correct to compare ourselves with others

ACTIVITY
OF
THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

THUMB PRINT

This shows that each person is unique and special, and there is no other person the same as you

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper

Paint or ink

Pencil

Sponge

[Figure: Paper]

PRESENTATION:

1. Gather the class and discuss the topic briefly.

2. Talk about how everyone has different physical features and the special qualities in them.

3. Have everyone look at their fingers, closely at their thumb and the designs on it. There is no one else in the whole world that has the same pattern of thumb print. Have them compare their thumbs and see how different they each are.

Give each person a piece of paper with their name written on it.

Using the paint or ink, you can place the thumb in a shallow plate or press the thumb on a sponge with paint or ink on it.

Then press the thumb on to a plain piece of paper and see the shape of your thumb and the pattern clearly.

VARIATION: use a paper and pencil and have each trace their hand and color it in, or draw the patterns.

CONCLUSION: Everyone is special and different in their own ways. If we are happy with whom we are, we will not compare.

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HOW TO GO BEYOND JEALOUSY

VOLUME 4

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

HOW TO GO BEYOND JEALOUSY?

INTRODUCTION

Jealousy has no solid existence, in that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or awareness.

There is no end to comparison because comparison exists in mind, not in reality. The jealousy that arises from comparison also has no basis. Peer pressure is just a big ego game. Actually, ego is not at all necessary for you to grow. We always compare ourselves with our peers and always crave for the things which we are not having.

Jealousy is closely related to many negative emotions like anger, greed, possessiveness and depression. All this emotions will dissolve when we break this cycle of jealousy. If you concentrate on your own track, you will be continuously progressing and expanding your own capacity. You need to compare yourself with only yourself, never with others. You need to win yourselves only by yourself, not by others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress.

GOALS

To make the kids aware of the fact that jealousy is the mother of hypocrisy

ASSESSMENT

What is jealousy?

What leads to jealousy?

Name some of our basic needs

What is peer pressure?

Have you felt jealous? When? Why?

How we can overcome jealousy?

CONCLUSION

Jealousy cannot be overcome
either by escaping from it or
hating the object of your
jealousy. Be satisfied with what
we have, be happy with
ourselves and enjoy life.

ART OF THE DAY

CHANGING PERCEPTIVE DRAWING

MATERIALS NEEDED

Paper

Sketch pen, or pencil

PROCEDURE

Encourage each child to look at any object and draw it in a different

perspective, for example they can look at the computer and draw the

side view.

INTERPRETATION

When we change our perception of seeing, the whole view changes. We can overcome jealousy by changing the perceptions we have about a person.

A digital rendering of a person wearing traditional Indian jewelry and clothing, seated on a throne.

A microphone icon with surrounding stars

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

SEE THROUGH YOUR LEFT EYE

INTRODUCTION:

To make the children understand about compare/ complain.

PREPARATION:

Make the children sit in pairs facing each other.

PRESENTATION:

Ask each child to look at this friends left eye using his left eye and talk. Ask each child to take turns and ask each how they felt.

We look each other only through our right eye because we use mostly our left brain. If we start using our left eye to see other people, we will not judge that person.

We will be very nice to them because we use our right brain when we see through our left eye. We will be heart oriented. We will not complain about the other person.

WORKSHOP
OF
THE DAY

PRESENTATION:
Children can do a
presentation on the topic of
how comparison leads to
jealousy

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