Death Is a Celebration - Vol 1

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

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ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

CHANGE PAINTING

MATERIALS NEEDED

Poster colors

Plain sheet

Pencil

Crayon

PROCEDURE

Encourage the children to do the drawing in the paper and paint it with poster colors. Ask them to dry the painting and tear each of their painting. Now ask each child to 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 the painting was perceived by them.

INFERENCE

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

MYSTERY OF DEATH

INTRODUCTION

Why is the whole of humanity
struggling against, one thing, the
only thing that it is a certainty in
all our lives. We are afraid because
instinctively we resist change and
death is an abrupt change in life.
Man thirst for survival in the
future makes him incapable of
living in the present. We are afraid
because we do not know who we
are. We hold an identity of
ourselves inside us, based on our
family, relationships, job, wealth,
social image.

Death removes this very identity
foundation on which our identity
is built, so we feel death snatches
everything that is ours. Our
understanding about death or
rather misunderstanding about
death, makes death a fearful,
frightening experience. The man
who resists death dies even while
he lives. Losing anything is a
form of death. Losing your
comfortable life is one form of
death.

Every part of your body i.e. connected to someone or the other. Your being is not an individual being. It is not a love, separate, as your think. We are all interlinked. That is why we undergo terrible suffering when we lose someone or something. All that we understand of death is that it is anti-life. Again because of our fear we think too much about death.

In the mystery of death lies the answer to life. If you know the secret of death, the quality of your life will be different. Your very understanding and attitude towards everything will change. We can actually use our lives to prepare for death. Death is not a mere incident at the end of your life. It is a profound knowing. If you know how the die, you know how to live. Living and leaving are new sides of the same thing.