GUILT: THE REAL KILLER OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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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!
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.
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
- Gather the class in a circle and sit. Explain the topic and the game.
- Take the bag and show the object that will be hidden inside.
- 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.
- Now each person takes turn to guess who has the object in their hand.
- 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
