Gratitude - Collection_English

TYPES OF PEOPLE

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ONLY 2 TYPES OF
PEOPLE EXIST .
ONE WHO THINK
EVERYTHING HAPPENS
AGAINST THEIR WILL
AND OTHER WHO
FLOW BELIEVE
EVERYTHING THAT
HAPPENS
iS AUSPICIOUS.
YOU CHOOSE WHICH
CATEGORY YOU
BELONG TO.

A portrait of a young sage seated on an ornate throne

In the whole world there are only
two kinds of people. The first
kind feels that whatever is
happening in the world is against
their will and things have to be
slightly altered all the time.

Such people will try to alter,
judge, criticize and develop the
things happening in the world
according to their ideas. The other
group, is a rare group, that feels
that whatever is happening is
auspicious as Shiva!

A person dressed as a deity, with religious symbols and ornaments, seated before a trident.

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Whoever feels what happens is auspicious, live in Shiva Consciousness, in eternal bliss, in celebration. The other group continuously suffers because it tries to change things all the time. Everything has a message for us including death and disease.

Everything has something to teach us. Every incident raises our intelligence, raises our frequency of consciousness. In the whole drama of the cosmos, anything that happens in our life brings auspiciousness to us. It adds to us. All we need to do is look at the world as a mystery, as an intelligent mystery.

Existence is not an accident. It is independent intelligence. When you understand that it is an independent intelligence, when you understand that it is a profound mystery to be experienced and not solved, everything in your life will open itself and reveal to you the lesson it has brought with it.

When suffering comes to you, if you approach it with non-acceptance, with resistance, it will create only pain in you. It will add only suffering to you. If you approach the same suffering with deep respect and gratitude, suddenly you will see that it reveals its mysteries to you.

It will show you the reason why it happened in your life and the lesson it brought to you in your life. If you approach the suffering with acceptance and intelligence, suddenly you will see that the very suffering gives you enlightenment! It adds joy and experience to your life.

Everything happening in the world is
auspiciousness, including what you call
natural calamities.

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved There is no such thing as inauspiciousness. Natural calamities are nothing but nature’s ways of adjusting itself to certain actions of human beings. So accept and celebrate the very existence of the world. In the third step, we come to celebrating god, the root and the source for the other two steps that are the self and the world. As long as you carry doubt or faith about the existence of god, you won’t experience god. Just like doubt, faith is also an obstacle.

They continue to have faith but never experience god. So now, drop your doubt and your faith about god’s existence or non-existence.

Even if you believe in god’s existence, you will have only an idea about Him – that He will have ten hands or eighteen heads, that He is tall or short. Whatever idea you may have, even those ideas can be hindrances to finally experiencing god. So drop your faith and doubt. Just remember that if there is a creation, there should be a creato

GOALS

To make the children
understand existence is not
an accident and that it is a
conscious compassionate
happening!

ASSESSMENTS

🌸 Have you ever thanked your mother for taking care of you?

🌸 Have you ever thanked your father for providing you with so many things?

🌸 Have you ever thanked your mentor/teacher for helping you?

🌸 Have you ever thanked your sisters or brothers for helping you?

🌸 How will we look at our relationship with others when we have gratitude?

🌸 What happens when we decide to respond with pure love and gratitude?

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY:

FOOD DRAWING

MATERIALS NEEDED

Paper

Pencil or Sketch pen.

Real vegetables, fruits or pictures of a few food items

PROCEDURE

Ask the children to see the real food items or pictures of the food items.

INFERENCE

Explain to the children we need food to live. Connect to the fact of having gratitude towards food and not wasting food. There are many people in their world who are not getting enough food.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY DRAWING WITH LEGS.

MATERIALS NEEDED

Paper

Pencil or Sketch pen.

PROCEDURE

Encourage the children to draw any picture or shape holding the pencil or sketch pen in their toes. Ask them to observe whether it is easy or difficult

INFERENCE

Drawing with hand is very easy compared to drawing with our legs. Our hands are helping us so much to express what we think in drawing or words. We must have gratitude for our hands.

WORKSHOP
OF
THE DAY

WORKSHOP

TOPIC OF DISCUSSION

Children can do a presentation on the topic of How expectations prevents us from expressing gratitude.

KAILASA’s NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL Presents

WHY YOU SHOULD LIVE WITH GRATITUDE

V O L U M E 4

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

CAUGHT IN THE
MAYA MATRIX WEB
OF DESIRES
VS LIVING
FROM GRATITUDE

INTRODUCTION

An important thing we need to
understand is that desire and
gratitude can never co exist. When
you feel one desire after another, it
means that you not living with
gratitude. When you live with
gratitude, you can never have any
desires. When you live with gratitude,
whatever is given to you will simply
fulfill whatever next you need at the
moment, that all. Things are always
perfect when you function with
gratitude. Otherwise, things are
always lacking

Portrait of a deity in traditional attire

Our ego always swallows everything and asks for more, the ego that prevents us from enjoying what is being showered upon us. Whether you want to base your life on asking or on gratitude is entirely up to you.

Gratitude is not some kind of morality that can be imposed on you from outside. It is an attitude that has to flower from within. When real gratitude happens it can transform your whole perception of life and bring lasting peace and joy for you.

The only way to have a live connection with reality is by dropping our conditioning, our ego breaking the wall we have built around our self. When we love, and are flowing and filled with gratitude. We will always have a sense of fulfillment, not because of any gains but because it has become our very being.

This fulfillment is the ultimate fulfillment that every man is seeking. The best way to become grateful is to learn to enjoy without a reason. Enjoy everything that you see, everything that you hear and everything you do. When we have real gratitude our body language can convey the state of gratitude. Instead of celebrating, we are all the time searching for more, searching for miracles.

Miracles are never done, they simply happen continuously around us. When you express gratitude we feel happy, compassionate and peaceful. Love connected with gratitude is complete trust. Discontentment cannot come from the heart. It is purely a product of mind.

We have to remember life itself is a gift for us. Everything becomes small to us when it is easily available. There are so many millions of people in this world who can't see, who can't hear, who can't talk, or taste. We never think of all these things. We are always thinking of what's more? What's better? What's next?

Until something comes to us it seems very precious and we remain in anxiety but the moment it comes, it loses its value and we move on. We always live with a 'what's next?' attitude.

We are unable to relate to gratitude because of this, we always feel that something that we don't have is as big as a mountain, without which we cannot survive, but when we actually get it, somehow it becomes too small a thing. This is how we miss the wonderful attitude of gratitude in our live.