LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction: Welcome the children to the topic of 'Celebrating Everything', considering every moment to be auspicious.

Goals: Make the children aware of the fact that everything and every moment is auspicious when we have gratitude.

Click: Miracles are continuously happening in front of our eyes.

About the topic: The whole of existence is an auspicious happening. Nothing that happens in existence is inauspicious. Everything is only a blessing. You are a part of existence, so everything happening around you is also auspicious. When we understand this we will not complain about life. When we realize this everything appears extra ordinary to us. Everything appears as a miracle. Miracles are continuously happening in front of our eyes, but we continuously miss them because of this our lives becomes dull. You will never be able to realize or understand yourself until you accept yourself and celebrate what you are. We carry two identities within ourselves. One is outer world identity – what we present to the world. The other is the inner world identity – what we believe we really are. The outer world identity will always be much more than who we really are. The inner world identity will usually be much lesser that what we actually are. Our whole life is nothing but the struggle between these two identities If you celebrate whatever you are you can stop this struggle. If you continuously use your to logic to analyze and judge and try to bring things under control; you will miss the whole thing. Just accept and celebrate existence with all its different dimensions and paradoxes. Don't judge anything. Every incident raises our intelligence, raises our frequency of consciousness. All we need to do is look at the world as a story, as an intelligent mystery. If we 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.

Assessment: • What do you mean by auspiciousness? • What would happen when you relent to suffering without acceptance? • Is there anything that is considered inauspicious? How can we make every moment auspicious? • When do miracles happen? • When did we not complain about others? • When do our lives become dull? • What is outer world identity? • What is inner world identity?

Materials needed: Paper, Sketch pen or Pencil

Procedure: Give each child the materials needed. Ask each child to draw the universe including the solar system and other neighboring galaxies.

Inference: Connect to the fact that we are a part of the universe. We must have gratitude towards the universe for providing an opportunity to be a part of it. We must save our universe. We must not waste nature's products. When we take the universe for granted and abuse the natural resources, it will lead to natural calamities like floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes.

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: Feel gratitude towards life and make every moment auspicious.

Materials Needed: Small beads

Procedure: Explain the activity to the children clearly. First they have to pick the beads with their hands. Then they should try to pick the beads with their legs. Ask them to analyze which was easier, picking beads with their hands or their legs?.

Inference: Connect to the fact that there are many people in the world without hands. They are grateful that at least they have legs to help them out. But even though we have everything, we never have gratitude, we take everything for granted.

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