Death Is a Celebration

MYSTERY OF DEATH

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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.

GOALS

To make the children
understand about the
mystery of death.

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ASSESSMENTS

Which is certainty in all our lives?

Which is the abrupt change in life?

Which makes us incapable of living in the present?

What removes the identity foundation?

Which makes death a powerful experience?

What is death?

Is your being an individual one?.

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CONCLUSION

In the mystery of death lies the answer to life.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

FIVE ELEMENTS ART

MATERIALS NEEDED

Water

Sand

Straw

Incense Stick

PROCEDURE Encourage the children to do a beautiful art which utilizes all the five elements of nature like water, for earth use sand, air for blowing, for fire use incense stick, and represent the space as paper. Encourage the children to mix sand with poster colors and water and then use straw to do blowing on the plain sheet so that they can do straw blowing painting. After it is dried, ask them to make designs by creating holes with incense sticks.

INFERENCE Our body is made up of all the five elements of nature - water, earth, air, fire, and space.

ACTIVITY
OF
THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

CHANGE PAINTING

PROCEDURE

This game is a group activity which ensures focus and co-ordination. Encourage the children to sit in a circle. One child will be the catcher and he has to identify who is the leader. The game is each has to continue to do the activity. Then the leader changes the activity others has to follow it and it goes on like this. The game goes so fast. The catcher has to correctly identify who changes the activity as the leader. Now other child who identified the leader will sit and the leader will be the catcher

INFERENCE

Connect them to the fact that being in the present is very important. Just be in the present and allow time to flow through you.