LESSON: 1🔗

Introduction: Introduce to the children about the common perception of death.

Goals: Make the children understand about the common perception of death.

About the topic: The very word 'death' creates agony and fear. Even talking about it is considered of inauspicious as we may invite it by even mentioning it. Death is seen as an enemy. We paint death as a villian, never as a hero. The idea of death is always approached with negativity. We feel death takes away everything from us. What ever we want, whatever we enjoy, whatever we have, everything is just taken by force from us. So most of us live either in denial of death or in fear of it. We think, 'why should we think about it now? We will handle it when it arrives.' Some how we always want to escape from death.

Our concern for unfulfillment is rooted in our fear of death. It is a primal fear, that of the unknown our actions in this life are for the most part driven by the desire to be in a better place after death or the fear not to be in a worst place after death. This fear of leaving the body and mind has existed through the ages.

Assessment: • What does the word death creates? • Why death is painted in black? • We approach the idea of death with what? • What we feel about death? • Which is rooted in our fear of death? • Which is a primal fear? • Which desire drives our actions in life? • Which fear drives our actions in life?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: When we really live intensely and automatically we will be liberated.

Do drawing with permanent marker and impermanent marker.

Materials Needed: Paper, permanent marker, impermanent marker. Explanation. Encourage the children to draw any picture with permanent marker on the plain sheet and now ask them to draw the same picture with impermanent marker and ask them to use ink eraser and erase the pictures and see the difference.

Inference: The picture drawn with permanent marker cannot be erased with ink eraser but the picture drawn with impermanent marker can be easily erased with ink eraser. Connect them to the fact body that soul is eternal it cannot be erased or destroyed while body is perishable.

Materials needed: Poster colours, plain sheet, pencil crayon,

Explanation: Encourage the children to do drawing in the paper and paint it with poster colours ask them to dry the painting and tear each of their painting. Now ask each child share and interchange part of their painting with the other child and form a new collage. Encourage each child to explain what they interpret from the new collage. Ask them to discuss how was this change in painting perceived by them.

Inference: We are afraid of death because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change in life.