Death Is a Celebration

WORKSHOP

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TALKING ABOUT AND WRITING DOWN THE CHANGES HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE

EXPLANATION:

Encourage each child to talk about and write down the changes that happened in their life and ask them to talk about how they handled the changes.

For example:

How about their new friend? What they felt when there was a new friend, new school, or any new place or any new dimension? How did they handle the new situation?

INFERENCE:

Any change happening to us is the death of the old person and evolving of the new person. For everything, you hold the key to getting upset or accepting the change happily. This is decided by you. One step, one click is needed to make our understanding better about change.

DEATH IS A CELEBRATION SERIES

KAILASA’S NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL Presents

BREAK-FREE FROM THE CYCLE
OF BIRTH & DEATH
VOLUME 2

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

BREAK-FREE FROM
THE VICIOUS CYCLE
OF BIRTH &
DEATH

The only way to break free from the
vicious cycle of birth and death is by
becoming enlightened, by entering
into death, dropping the fear. As long
as you are afraid of death you will
never look death in the eye. Unless
or until you do that, you will never
know how much you are blessed
with abundance. Only when you
know that you will lose something
will you realize the value of that
thing. Once when you face death
without fear, you will understand the
death is not the end of life but it is
the climax. Death is just a matter of
belief.

A portrait of a person with dark hair, wearing a leopard-print headband and rudraksha beads, with hands raised in a gesture.

When you believe that death is terrifying, it becomes terrifying. We are not able to face death because we are not able to face the ever changing nature of life. We try to hold onto things, to people, to feelings, to situations and that is where the problem starts.

We are terrified to letting go. Look at everything happening in life with the understanding that change is the nature of life, the very reason why life is so colorful and interesting. Death is a deep relaxation it is the ultimate 'letting go'. It is the dropping of the old and starting with the new.

When your being recognizes that
is cannot achieve what it wants to
through this body it decides to
move on . This moving on, this
passing over is called death.
Death is a fresh start – When you
die, all that happens is that you
rejuvenate your body is your
mind. You take a fresh set of
memories, a new place, a
different set of relatives, a new
life

We take up a new birth hoping to fulfill all our incomplete desires. Choices given to you by god to start all over again is death. Facing the fear demystifies death. Every moment you die, the next moment you are born. Death and birth are just cycles. If you die you will be born and if you are born you will die. When you understand this you start living your life, you start enjoying every breath that you take on planet earth. Death is the beginning of a new chapter of life.

GOALS

To make the children
understand about
ultimate let-go

ASSESSMENTS

Which is the only way to break the birth and death cycle?

When can we realize the abundance of nature?

When can we realize the value of something?

What happens when you belief death is terrifying?

Are we scared of letting go?

Which is a deep relaxation? .

Is death a new beginning?

CONCLUSION

Death the ultimate let go is your choice to start all over again.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY: CiRCLE OF THE LiFE COLLAGE.

MATERIALS NEEDED

Pictures of deer eating grass, the lion eating deer, the hunter catching the lion.

Glue,

plain sheet cut into circular format.

PROCEDURE

Encourage the children to stick the pictures in the order of life circle. Stick the pictures in the circular form of deer eating grass, the lion eating deer, the hunter eating lion

INFERENCE

Connect them to the fact that our life is a circle between birth and death

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

FOOTPRINT ACTIVITY

PROCEDURE

Encourage the child to dip the foot in the water and keep the foot print on the outdoor floor and ask each child to observe how it just disappear behind them. They can also observe the friend's footprint disappearing in no time. Ask each child to explain what they understood from this.

INFERENCE

Death happens
everyday.
Everything is
unstable,
everything is
changeable.

A depiction of a Hindu deity or saint in ornate traditional attire and headgear

CERTAINTY ABOUT DEATH

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.

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved 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.

A medical professional attending to a patient in a hospital bed

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.

Illustration of a human head with swirls above it

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.

GOALS

Make the children
understand about the
mysteries of death.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

LIFE CYCLE OF HUMAN

MATERIALS NEEDED Picture book of baby to aged man. Materials needed: Picture book plain sheet to be made into scrapbook, different pictures of different age groups like pregnant mother etc.

PROCEDURE 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) Adult, middle aged, 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.

A portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

READ BOOK UPSIDE DOWN

PROCEDURE

Read holding upside down Explanation: Encourage children to hold a story book or written page upside down and read correctly. This activity encourages the child to be in now, and be creative in doing things. 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 the right brain. Death is not a mere incident at the end of your life. It is profound knowing we have to focus every moment.