WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT GUILT — Guilt Collection Triology: Volume 1: Guilt: the OriGinal Sin

One deep thing you should understand! Guilt is the root for greed! As long as you have guilt, you can never enjoy anything.

HOW TO KNOW IF
YOU ARE OUT OF
GUILT?

When you get a certain
guilt - the idea you have
done something wrong,
your skin glow drastically
reduces! That is what in our
tradition we mention again
& again if this sin comes to
you, you will lose your
grace - means that shining
of that skin will disappear,
the aura will disappear.
When people come out of
guilt, their skin starts
shining!

GUILT: THE REAL

KILLER OF

CONSCIOUSNESS

When you have desires you have
guilt as well. Guilt is the opposite
face of desire. Sometimes you feel
guilty about desiring something
because you feel it is not right to
desire it. Other times you feel
guilty when your desires are
fulfilled because you feel you are
not deserving of what you receive.
When your desires do not come
true you feel guilty because you
feel you have not done what you
ought to have. Desires invariably
lead to guilt

Guilt is nothing but your past
decisions and actions being
reviewed with your updated
intelligence.

For example you might have
said a few mean things to
one of your friends when
you were younger which
caused hurt to your friend.
Now, few years later, with
the intelligence that you
have, is it right to review
that incident and feel guilty?
No! At that time you had
only that much intelligence,
so you behaved in that
fashion. Now, you have
updated intelligence. It
doesn't make sense to
review the past with your
present intelligence.

WHAT IS GONE
IS GONE. WHAT
HAS BEEN
DONE IS DONE.
YOU CANNOT
UNDO IT.

Now if you constantly think
about the past and feel
guilty, you destroy your
present and your future too.
Nothing can be done about
it,so guilt is useless. What
can you do? All that you can
do is not repeat the same
pattern again, that’s all. At
that time with whatever
intelligence you had, you
acted, that’s all.

The past is always past, it is
always dead. That is why it is
called past. Yet we always let
the past affect us. How do we
allow the past to affect us? In
two ways:

If you review your past incidents or decisions using the present intelligence, you will create guilt in your being.

If you base your present decisions on past experiences, you will be repeating the same past into the future also, maybe in a little updated fashion!

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Even though you might not commit exactly the same mistake, you will be moving in the same experiential level, in the same plane. Our mind falls into a groove, a track, a mindset that forces it to do what it has always done. So we keep making the same mistakes as well.

GOALS:

To make the kids aware
of the topic of guilt, talk
about any incident
which they felt guilty.

ASSESSMENT:

❖ What is guilt? ❖ What is past? ❖ What is desire? ❖ How do desires lead to guilt? ❖ Can we change the past? ❖ When do you feel guilt? ❖ Can you see it or smell it or touch it? ❖ Why do you feel heavy when you feel guilty? ❖ Why do you cry or justify when you are guilty

CONCLUSION:
Reiterate the topic of pain, the
importance of pain, ways to
overcome pain.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY: SHADOW DRAWING

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper, Pen (or) Sketch (or) Pencil, Pictures

PROCEDURE Give each child the material required. Explain to the children that they can draw the shadow of the picture given. Encourage each one can to select the picture of their choice and draw the shadow of that picture

Interpretation: Explain to the children that guilt is the shadow of the desires. Borrowed desires invariably lead to guilt. When we live our desires completely we will not have guilt. When we are not fully in the moment it leads to the guilt.

Portrait of an enlightened youth within a mandala pattern

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

BLUFF GAME

Here is a group game that can be played together for the representation of guilt.

MATERIALS NEEDED: A non-transparent bag and one small object (e.g.small piece of paper, button or coin.)

PRESENTATION 1.Gather the class in a circle and sit. Explain the topic and the game.

2. Take the bag and show the object that will be hidden inside. 3.One person will get to put their hand in the bag. They can either take the object or pretend to take it. They remove their hand with their fist closed and place it behind their back. They have to do this such that no one can see if they have taken the object or not. Everyone takes turns to do the same. 4.Now each person takes turn to guess who has the object in their hand. 5.Watch the facial expression of the people

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: BLUFF GAME

CONCLUSION:

All others will find it easy to point fingers randomly at someone they think has the object. The person who has the object would find it difficult to point fingers at someone else because they know they have the object. That is guilt!

GUILT:

A MANIFESTATION

OF

THE EGO

INTRODUCTION

Guilt is actually the shadow of
the ego. When somebody says
something and you become
angry, it is the ego, your idea
about yourself, that causes the
anger. But right after, you
start feeling guilty about
losing your temper. Now, too,
it is the same ego that causes
the guilt. It gives you the
feeling that you could have
done differently to change the
situation, but you did not do
it. This is the dilemma.

The ego creates the
problem and the same ego
goes on harboring guilt. If
you understand this game
of the ego, you can simply
drop the guilt. Without
allowing ego, if you allow
only awareness, you will
neither get unduly angry
nor will you suffer for it.
Because of the awareness,
you will not be blinded
with anger. You will get
angry only to the extent
required and automatically
there will not be any guilt
either!

If you have made a mistake
there are two ways to treat it.
One is to feel guilty. If you feel
guilty, you will commit the
same mistake again. Guilt is
the way to commit the same
mistake again because you
forget the mistake and start
focusing on the guilt. If you
focus on the mistake, you will
know how and where you
went wrong and so you will
not repeat it. If you focus on
the guilt, you will not even
analyze how and where you
went wrong, so you are still
very much capable of making
the same mistake again!

GOAL :

To make them aware of
how ego manifests as
guilt, how being happy
is itself associated with
feelings of guilt.

ASSESSMENT:

Have you felt guilty about something?

How will you feel when you do something wrong and others find out?

How does the ego get bigger with guilt?

How is ego related to guilt?

What happens when we make a big mistake for the first time?

Why do we cover up our mistake?

Can you feel happy when you feel guilty?

Can you feel guilt without thinking about the past?

Have you ever felt guilty of being happy?

CONCLUSION:

Conclude the topic by reviewing the
important details. Drop ego and feel
the happiness without the guilt.

ART OF THE DAY

ART OF THE DAY: DiSEASE DRAWING

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Paper, Pen (or) Sketch

PROCEDURE Give each child the materials needed. Explain to the children about disease. Encourage each child to draw what they understood by disease. Each child will get a turn to explain what they have drawn about disease.

Interpretation: Pain is caused by multiple factors. Guilt creates a dent in our inner space, Guilt makes us feel inferior. Explain to the children guilt in long run leads to diseases. Guilt affects us psychologically which leads to diseases

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY: BUCKET AND PLATE

MATERIALS NEEDED: Empty bucket. Plate or lid (large enough to cover the bucket) Water.

PRESENTATION:

Discuss guilt and how it affects us. Ask for some examples of guilt and what it means.

Take a bucket and instruct the children to pour the water into the bucket.

Each child will get a turn to pour water into the bucket. Then you exhibit the lid and close the bucket with the lid.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

BUCKET AND PLATE

INFERENCE:

Explain to the children we fill the bucket of our mind with all guilty emotions and close the bucket with a big lid; we will not share our emotions with anybody. Sharing is the only way to re-live the incident ,so share the guilt with others be aware of it, and never repeat the same mistake again.

CONCLUSION:

Our body is not able to receive inputs and feel free if we are suffering from guilt. It is like the guilt has closed the entry points of our energy

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: GUILT

TOPIC OF DISCUSSION:
Write down ten things
which went wrong in your
life

EXPLANATION:
Each child is asked to write down
a list of ten things which went
wrong in their life. For example,
each child can write about their
worst experiences like
1.How did my favorite toy break?
2.My best friend went to an
another school
3.My birthday dress got torn

4. I tripped dancing on the stage

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: GUILT

INFERENCE:
Ask everybody to tell what
they felt during that
particular movement. What
are the patterns created,
how life has happened to
them? This activity gives
them an opportunity to re-
live that particular incident.
This helps them to be aware
of the thoughts which lead
them to the negative things
in life.