LESSON: 4🔗

Introduction: Introduce the children about the mystery of mysteries, what happens at the time of death.

Goals: Make the children understand about the mysteries of mysteries.

About the topic: Death is truly the mystery of all mysteries. There are only two things that are certain about death. One that we will die at some point in time. The other is that it is uncertain when or how we will die. Everything that is born has to die. That is the nature of life. Beautifully the verse in the Upanishad says of that what ever you think in your last moment, you become that. 'Thoughtless awareness' is the strongest experience you can have in your life. Even for a single moment, if you find that experience it is enough. Naturally when you leave the body that will come up. That will act as a light and you will be able to move into the consciousness. What exactly happens at the time of leaving the body? This question cannot be answered by a living person as has not experienced death. It cannot be answered by a dead person since he cannot come back to narrate the experience.

Only an enlightened being, a person who has gone through death conscious and come back a new, can exactly explain what happens during death. We do not just have one body. The physical body is just one of the seven bodies we have. It is the only gross body that can be felt and seen in space-time. However we actually have seven layers or bodies or planes of existence. Since these layers have a subtle existence they cannot we seen or felt by ordinary person Each of the bodies holds a corresponding emotions. Seven bodies are physical body, pranic body, mental body, etheric body causal body, cosmic body and nirvanic body.

Pranic body—holds the desires that arise in life. Mental body—holds all the feelings of guilt experience in life. Etheric body—Holds the experiences of mental pain felt in life. When the spirit leaves the body it crosses all the seven body layers. The physical body dies, but the remaining six bodies do not totally do.

If you are holding a lot of desires in you life all those unfulfilled desire are held in the pranic body. So even the physical body dies the pranic body does not die. Somehow, you manage to move away from the pranic body, and enter next into the mental body. When you enter into the mental body all your guilt raises.

The way in which we want to live is desire, and the way in which we wanted to live but didn't is guilt when the desire, guilt and pain are less intense, you not only have an easy death with less suffering but you also age gracefully. Guilt is about the past and desire is about the future.

Happiness comes from an external object or reason. If you feel happy when you get to eat your favorite candy, you feel that the candy is the cause of your happiness. But it is not to be. you will hate your favorite candy if you are forced to eat the candy one after other continuously.

Happiness is temporary feeling created by the mind. Bliss the seven bodies, is the true reality. It is the causeless, unending happening inside you of spontaneous energy, joy and suspicious.

Materials needed: Picture book plain sheet to be made into scrap book, different pictures of different age group like pregnant mother etc.

Explanation: Encourage the children to make a picture book like scrap book by sticking the pictures of various age group from young to old. The pictures can be picture of pregnant women New book baby Toddler, preschooler, kindergartner Primary secondary school going (teenager)AdultMiddle age young age very old age. The picture book must be in this order.

Inference: We are changing by time to time. Death is the beginning of a new chapter of life. It is a fresh start.

Explanation: Encourage children to hold a story book or written page up side down and read correctly. This activity encourages the child to be in now, and be creative in doing things.

Inference:

Encourage: Encourage the child to be out of logic and use the right brain and be creative. Anything done in the regular way is logic , the activity which needs focus, and being in now is related to right brain. Death is not a mere incident at the end of your life. It is a profound knowing we have to focus every moment.

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