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Innocence is the space for transformation to happen. There is so much freshness behind innocence. Life becomes an unfolding mystery every moment with it. That is the truth. Life is an ever unfolding mystery. It is the mind that typecasts it. The mind always wants life on its own specific terms. Innocence embraces life with life's own terms. With the mind, life does not find a gate to enter with its mysteries. With innocence, life is welcomed to share its mysteries. Innocence trusts. Innocence does not worry about being exploited. There are three ways to ask a question. You can ask out of innocence, or you can ask out of knowledge to show that you too know, and third, you can ask to confirm that what you know is correct. When you ask out of innocence, you are completely ready to receive the answer. When you ask out of knowledge, you can completely miss the answer. When you ask for confirmation, you simply resist the answer.

Objectives: • How does our society condition us • Does our life is the same way as the society tell us? • What is innocence • Innocence is related to outer space or inner space • When there will be innocence • Can innocence so with logic? Can a logical person be innocent

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge of the topic for asking about to speak about their innocence

Conclusion:

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Art of the day: Draw past, present and future

Materials needed: Plain sheet, pencil or sketch pen

Explanation: Encourage the children to draw their ideas of past, present and future in pictorial format. Ask children to explain to their friends what they have drawn. Inference;-Innocence is keeping the consciousness at the level of the heart, not allowing it to settle in the head.

Child drawing with markers

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Activity for the Day: News paper Game

Explanation: Make the children into groups of four or five. Give each group a name or they can wear same color dress. Place few news papers on the ground. Now play the music or do clapping when clapping sound or music is stopped. They have to stand with their group in the corresponding newspaper. Whoever not standing in the group or standing with other group or not standing on the news paper will be out of the game.

Inference: This activity needs lots of co-ordination and focus and ability to respond immediately. When we drop our cunningness we can become more spontaneous.

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LESSON: 2

Introduction: Review the day before topic and introduce to the children to remain empty

Goals: To make the children understand about remaining empty

About the Topic: Openness is emptiness. Let not knowledge fill you. knowledge is but a mere tool, not your substance. Reject all knowledge as not this, reject means don't settle for any intermediate knowledge except the ultimate truth. We may know many things, but the knowing should not dull us in any way. We should remain empty in spirit always. If you just look at life without any opinions, without any words or description, without any fixed ideas, then you can receive everything because you hold nothing, because you are empty. Present is an unfolding miracle and mystery of Existence. We try to grasp it, with the net of knowledge.

That is the motivation for knowledge. But it can never happen! The unknown can never be trapped with the known. The unknown can be known only by surrendering to it. That surrender is what is called intelligence! Intelligence recognizes the mystery of the present moment and surrenders to it joyfully. That joy is the joy of innocence. Knowledge on the other hand denies the mystery of the present moment. It tries to ascertain it every minute and the present can never be ascertained. So you continuously remain with what is called 'fear of the unknown'. Through knowledge, you somehow try to escape from the 'not-knowing' of the moment. To the ego, not-knowing means being nothing.

It cannot handle being nothing. But innocence is being nothing and enjoying the present! The present is an unopened gift. But

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knowledge robs it of its suspense. Belief, is nothing but an individual and independent interpretation of something. There is no need to instill any belief into a child.

A child can remain free to have its own interpretation. The unconscious response becomes your 'instinct'. The very experience of anything around you, happens only through instinct, not as it is. And because of this, you cannot know anything as it is. You can know it only through your knowledge. That is why we say, knowledge is a hindrance to knowing. Once knowledge solidifies in the being there is no space left for experiencing. There is scope only for replay of knowledge. Everything becomes a reflection of some past knowledge or some past conclusion. The future becomes a continuation of the past patterns and experiences. Existence is not a continuation of anything.

It is fresh every minute. So it is not possible to know anything. The mind is constantly looking for activity you go behind belief. We base our whole life on beliefs. Because of this we are immersed in activity, but not action. Activity needs constant fuelling through beliefs. Activity cannot afford to stop. It if stops, the mind falls into depression. Action happens as and when required and stops. Activity happens out of belief. Action happens out of understanding. Activity causes fatigue while action creates energy and inspiration.

What you need is action, not activity. Just understand that belief is nothing but your own understanding of something and not the truth. In any given situation, four different people can conclude differently with four different beliefs. There is no absolute reality in belief. It is merely an individual perception. But innocence keeps the perception open. That is the beauty of it. It doesn't conclude and close the doors on anything. There are innumerable interpretations to

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anything. Not holding onto any one interpretation is the essence of innocence. Then the spirit is kept alive.

Interpretation / Objectives:

  • What is openness
  • What is meant by rejecting knowledge
  • How we behave as a child Knowledge makes us dull or fresh What happens when we are evyoty When you will note crose your enthusiasm When you will follow your heart What is life Relate interpretation to innocence

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking multiple questions

Conclusion: When you ask out of innocence, you are complete up ready to receive the answer.

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Art of the day; Hand Printing And Creating Pictures

Materials needed: Plain sheet, Poster colors, Plate for mixing paint

Explanation: Ask the children to paint their palm with different colors and print the impression on the paper. Now they can use their creativity to create various pictures out of the hand printing. For example, they can create like peacock, swan, giraffe etc.

Inference: We can make anything out of anything when we are open. Life has no boundary, no limit. We may know many things but the knowing should not restrict us in any way. We must always be open to receive be so creative.

hand print illustration

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Activity of the day; Hula Hoop Game

Materials needed: Strong hula hoop

Explanation: Encourage children to form groups. Give each child in the group to hold the hula hoop and all the children must sit holding the hoop at the same time and stand up similarly holding the hoop, they can also hold the loop with one hands and do this activity.

Inference: This activity needs co-ordination and co-operation among the team members.

Children playing with hula hoops

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Workshop 1: I Am A Possibility In Myself

Explanation: Ask the children to tell how many times they receive the virus of conditioning what all things they have been conditioned. How they feel when they are conditioned for something. For example, if you get wet you will catch cold, eating orange makes sore throat etc.

Inference: We are a possibility in ourselves when conditioning wires attacks as we have to overcome it with might understanding. Everybody must understand we are a possibility in ourselves. It is our mind set up which leads to problems. If we think everything positive only positive things will happen. Conditioning cannot affect us in on way.

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LESSON: 3

Introduction: Review the day before topic and introduce to them “silence is the space of unlearning & grasping with innocence.

Goals: To make the children understand about silence is the space of unlearning & learning.

About the Topic: In silence there is innocence. In words there is intellect. Intellect can never receive the truth, only innocence can just be with innocence that is enough. Silence bridges the gap that words create. Silence is the space of transformation into fresh learning. In silence you are open and in those moments you are innocent. The inner silence is the treasure zone. In silence there is no geed or fear. Innocence is a delicate fragrance while knowledge is a strong filter. That is the difference. The fragrance of innocence draws the whole world to you. The filter of knowledge prevents many things from coming to you .we are in a great hurry all the time, because there is too much knowledge to gather When you are with innocence you simply enjoy the moment.

Innocence grasps the moment while knowledge misses it. Knowledge knows only purpose while innocence knows the beauty of purposelessness. Children lose their innocence to the conditioning that they receive in the name of “how to be clever”. Knowledge is a tool . It doesn't directly lead to intelligence. It is just a tool . As long as we use it as a powerful tool where needed, it is good. on the other hand, innocence leads directly to pure intelligence. Innocence grasps dimensions that cleverness misses.

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Innocence may miss the facts but it catches the truths, when cleverness combines with innocence, it becomes a rare combination of intelligence. Knowledge that is not yet experience is not your own. It is borrowed. Knowing is different from knowledge. Knowing is innocence. It is an understanding that has become your own experience. Work so that everything becomes a deep experience in you. You will then be a simple person. Simplicity is weightless. It will never weigh you down and hinder further learning. It is just aid in the flowering of innocence, that's all. What innocence grasps one may not ever be able to express, because it is an understanding beyond words.

Objectives: • What is intellect? • What is innocence? • What is there is silence -innocence or intellect. • What bridges the gap that words create. • What is the difference between innocence & intelligence. • What happens when you are in innocence. • Which knows the purpose and which knows the beauty of purposelessness? • Whether knowing is different from knowledge.

Evaluation: Evaluate the knowledge of the topic by asking them multiple questions.

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Art of the day; Wax Painting

Materials needed: Uncolored art sheet, various color crayons, poster colors (different), brush

Explanation: Ask the children to first color the picture with crayon and then paint on it with poster colors, ask them to observe how the painting looks like. Ask them whether the paint is mixing with poster color or standing alone.

Inference: Innocence grasps dimensions that cleverness misses. Innocence may miss facts but it catches the truth.

Wax painting activity

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Activity of the day;- Hide and seek game.

Explanation: In this game of hide and seek, one child counts to a certain numbers while all the other children hide. As the end of the count, the child who counts says, “Ready or not”, here I come and seeks out the hiders.

Inference: Cunningness is a pure hide and seek game, you play with yourself. Societal conditioning causes the innocence in the intelligence to take the turn in to cunningness.

children playing hide and seek
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LESSON: 4

Introduction: Introduce to the children about being vulnerable and review the yesterday topic.

Goals: To make the children understand about the concept of being vulnerable and surrendering with trust.

About the topic: When you are innocent, you are vulnerable to everything that existence wants to teach you. If you are closed, you create a wall around you. Vulnerability is breaking the wall and inviting the cool breeze to touch your very being every time it blows .vulnerability is not weakness. The wall when broken will not cause you danger. The entire cosmos comes to you when you are vulnerable. Your reality is your vulnerability and you are so afraid of opening it to the cosmos.

When you are vulnerable, you experience everything at the being level. Life happens with vulnerability .With the head you cannot be vulnerable. With vulnerability you move towards the truth in a different path, in a joyful path because every moment you are receiving directly from existence. Existence is able to give you because you are vulnerable and ready to receive it. When you become vulnerable, you are saying 'yes' to existence. When you say yes to existence your energy starts moving in a new direction. When you started saying yes, you start expressing love, which is the language of the heart. When you are vulnerable you have great trust on the other. When you are vulnerable you are open in your entire response system.

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Interpretation: • When you are vulnerable? • What is being vulnerable? • Is it ok to the vulnerable? • What happens when you say yes? • How is saying yes connected to vulnerability? • Is vulnerability a weakness? • Vulnerability is listening to heart or head?

Evaluation: Ask them to explain the situations when they have been vulnerable.

Conclusion: To just express with vulnerability is to be free like a bird, not worried about any past or future, to just be.

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Art of the day; Tracing With Stencils

Materials needed: Plain sheets, pencil or crayons or sketch pen, stencils (may be alphabets or numbers or various animals or any other shapes).

Explanation: Provide plain papers to the children and give them a stencil or a block or a shape and ask them to place it on the paper and ask them to hold it firmly with other hand and trace the stencil or block or shape, inside or outside.

Inference: When you ask out of innocence you are completely ready to receive the answer, how with stencil we can replicate the design similarly with innocence we can do wonders.

Stencils

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Activity of the day; Potato gathering activity

Explanation: Draw two circles or keep two hoops away from each other. Place more balls in one circle and keep the other circle empty. Each child has to gather the ball fast from one circle to another carrying only one ball at a time within the given time limit. Whoever gathered the maximum number of balls will be the winner.

Inference: Being innocent is like functioning from your very consciousness. It is thoughtless awareness. Thoughtless awareness is innocence.

Children playing the potato gathering activity

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Workshop 2 : Riddle Work Shop

Explanation: Ask the children to answer few common riddles. Like a fell from 12 storey building but did not get hurt why – the answer is the baby fell down from the ground floor. Ask each child to come with some more riddles of their own. Ask them some more very difficult riddles, when they answer the riddles, ask them how they answered it correctly where they got the click.

Inference: Click is the right understanding when we apply the right understanding in the right place, we can solve very difficult, complex problems in our life. We cannot open the door with other door we can only open the door with a key. The key is the right understanding.

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LESSON: 5

Introduction: Introduce to the children about surrendering with trust

Goals: To make the children understand about surrendering with trust

About the topic: Immense trust leads to surrender. Surrender is simplicity of the heart. When we awaken to the powerful presence of the truth, surrender happens. The trust is absolute and innocent. The trust comes with no reason.

It is only innocence that is capable of taking the leap into trust and surrender. Knowledge looks for reason in everything. Surrender and reason are mutually exclusive, surrender is possible only out of innocence, because out of innocence arises trust.

With trust arises acceptance as well Acceptance means welcoming life and all its forms as a wonderful gift from existence. Each person or situation is a fresh happening. Accepting it at a deep level is surrender.

Acceptance is saying yes to the existence. Out of surrender arises deep relaxation. Out of surrender arises a fresh intelligence Trust means continuing to be in action with intelligence instead of intellect. Trust is an attitude. It is not a substitute for appropriate action. The spirit of trust is the essence of the very life. It leads to innocence, surrender, relaxation and bliss.

Surrendering is allowing existence to happen through you. When you are trusting and surrendering it becomes difficult to cheat you. Innocence trust always protects from deceit.

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When we come to the present moment we are open and innocent because there is a no mind in the present. For the mind to exist there has to be movement towards the past or the future. In the present moment, there is no past or future. To be trusting and surrendering is like losing the 'I' and the 'mine'. Ego starts with 'mine' and then move to 'I'. Even before the identity of 'I' set in the mind corners into play.

Surrendering is nothing but merging with existence with no identity of 'I' or 'mine'. The mind is a direct conflict to the being.

Interpretation: • What is known as surrender? • Which leads to surrender? • What is the relationship between trust and reason? • What is acceptance? • Which leads to acceptance? • Which is termed as saying yes to acceptance? • What provides deep relaxation? • When it becomes difficult to cheat? • How is mind connected to being innocent? • When we can lose 'I' and 'mine'? Which is the direct conflict to the being?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.

Conclusion: The mind is a direct conflict to the being. The being always concerns with existence.

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Art of the day; Draw Silence

Materials needed: Plain sheet, Pencil or Pen or Sketch

Explanation: Encourage the children to draw about silence in pictorial form. Each child will get a turn to explain what silence means to them, how they depicted silence in the pictorial form.

Inference: Silence is the space of unlearning and learning. In silence, there is innocence, silence bridges the gap what words create.

A child drawing on a green sheet

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Story for Innocence

Brief of the story : On the banks of a river there lived a sage in a small plot of land owned by a farmer. The village chief did not like the sage and wanted to buy the piece of land. The village chief was ready to pay any amount of money.

Village Chief: I want the small plot which you own and I am ready to pay any amount of money.

Farmer: If I sell the land to you, will you drive the sage away once it becomes yours.

Village chief: Why do you call him a saint? Just because he is wearing an orange rope? He must be an ordinary man like as

Farmer: No sir, I have seen many signs of a sage in him. For e.g. I have never seen him getting angry.

The village chief: Tomorrow come to his hut and I will show you how angry he will be. The next day morning the farmer went near the sage's hut and watched A boy apparently sent by the village chief approached the sage The sage was writing something on the palm leaf . The boy went behind him and spat on him. The sage looked back, saw that it was the boy who did it, got up and took a dip in the river and came back and sat. The boy spat again and the sage went and had a dip again. The farmer could not bear to see what was happening. The village chief was standing behind a tree and watching as well. He was surprised at the sage's calmness. Every time the sage returned from the dip, the boy spat on him. Every time the sage smiled at him, got up INNOCENCE

and went and dipped. The boy had spat on the sage for 107 times. He could not bear it any more. He fell at the sage feet and cried.

Boy: Please forgive me. I have sinned. I harassed you in this manner only because I was paid to do so. I am afraid that you might curse me now!

Sage: So you will not spit on me again?

Boy: I would rather die than spitting again.

Sage: Let me tell you a secret. I should actually thank You for this because many years ago I had taken a vow that I would dip hundred and eight times in this sacred river. Today that has been fulfilled. I have to dip one more time to complete the Vow. This time I will pray for you. The sage dipped one more time and when he come out, the village chief was at his feet begging for forgiveness.

Village chief: I am the real sinner. I paid the boy to do this. I wanted to prove that you would get angry.

Sage: Had the boy told me his real mission. I would have got angry quickly and made him to receive his reward.

The village chief became a disciple of the sage.

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LESSON: 6

Introduction: To reiterate day before topic and introduce to the children about dropping cunningness and become spontaneous.

Goals: To make the children understand about dropping cunningness and become spontaneous.

About the topic: Cunningness is the opposite of intelligence. You can be either cunning or intelligent never both at the same time. Cunningness is also the opposite of vulnerability. When you are cunning, you cannot be vulnerable. When you are vulnerable, you are pure like a child. A child can be intelligent and innocent at the same time. Overtime his intelligence grows but the innocence invariably takes a turn to become cunningness societal conditioning causes the innocence in the intelligence to take the turn into cunningness. We hold a great responsibility in bringing up children without making them cunning. The problem is that we know only to divide and look . We never know to look as a whole. Cunningness is division. It is a constant calculation. In hinders free and innocent expression.

Innocence is lost when the mind is taught to divide. The danger with cunningness is that it grows roots in many directions and solidifies as the very nature of the individual. The person will not even know he is cunning. Unless you are tired of being cunning, you can't be helped. No technique can help you because your cunningness knows how to escape from every single technique. Cunningness is a pure hide and seek game that you play with yourself. When cunningness dissolves, authenticity and sincerity happens and you will be enlightened. Gossip is a pure expression of cunningness. When you drop

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cunningness, spontaneity flowers. Spontaneity is the opposite of calculation.

Intelligence plus innocence is spontaneity. Spontaneity is nothing but a flowering expression of your innocence. With cunningness you lose your innocence. Losing your innocence is like losing your entire life. You can afford to lose anything but not your innocence. When you are spontaneous you are without any conclusions. Intelligence is in the present moment. Conclusion is a foregone thing it is of the past. Existence never repeats patterns.

Interpretation: • What is cunningness? • What happens when we have cunningness? • When you are vulnerable? • Can a child be innocent? • Can a child be innocent and intelligent at the same time? • Is it good to lose innocence? • Conclusion is about past or future? • Which is the opposite of calculation? • What happens when innocence appears? • What happens when cunningness dissolves?

Evaluation: Evaluate how will they understood by the topic by asking multiple

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Art of the day; Impression ON CHART ART

Materials needed: Chart paper, poster colors

Explanation: Encourage children to dip their feet in poster colors and make impression by walking on the chart paper. Now ask them to create a border in the chart in the form of any animal.

Inference: We can make anything out of anything when we are open. Life has no boundary, no limit. We may know many things but the knowing should not restrict us in any way. We must always be open to receive and be creative.

A bird illustration made from a footprint

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Activity of the day; Tieing Legs Of 4 Children Together

Materials needed: Rope or ribbon

Explanation: Divide the children into groups of 4 children in each group. Tie the legs of all the four child by tying one of first children with the leg of other children then the other legs of second child to one leg of third child and so on.

Inference: This activity needs team spirit, co-operation and co-ordination of all team themselves. Each member of the group needs to be very responsible.

Workshop - 3

Children can have a quiz on the topic of innocence.

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LESSON: 7

Introduction: Reiterate the day before topic and introduce to the children about Innocence, totality and maturity.

Goals: To make the children understand about Innocence, totality and maturity.

About the topic: When you came into the world, you came as an innocent infant. You radiated the beauty of your innocence until society gives you the mind. Now, we want to get rid of your mind and become innocent again , The regained innocence is what is called maturity. It is possible to regain it. We have to believe, we were innocent once upon a time. Trust that innocence is still within you. Then it is possible to start radiating it again. This understanding will start the process again.

Maturity causes us to live in totality. Totality is functioning out of immense innocence and giving your whole to the moment. There is no options, no judgment, no fragments within you. There is only intense enthusiasm for the moment. The openness to the moment is the innocence. Just one thing is needed to become innocent one again. Don't hide behind false knowledge.

Always feel your natural self at your core with no strain, with no effort or pretensions. Innocence is keeping the consciousness at the level of the heart, not allowing it to settle in the head. The problem of falsity comes because society teaches you to be someone special all the time. There is no need to be someone special all the time. When you drop the mind, you fall into the moment. Maturity is taking a strong decision not to decide yourself any more. It is to awaken to the consciousness within. It is to integrate yourself with honesty. When we regain the innocence, we flower with the understanding that there

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is nothing more priceless than becoming child like again. Innocence is the way to approach life.

Getting the innocence disturbed and working to regain it permanently is the process of maturity. If a child is brought up in love, the innocence of the child is preserved. Then he moves around with his heart not with his head. The beauty of maturity is that it allows you to function as a mature person when required and as a child at all other times. Innocence has a totality about it. This totality is called grace. Being innocent is like functioning from your very consciousness. It is thoughtless awareness. The problem is that we are afraid of losing what society taught us from society we learnt how to build our personality. But our character is different from our personality. Character is real. personality is a built up image.

Interpretation: • Which provides you the mind? • How to get rid of your mind? • How we can become innocent? • What is the regained innocent called? • What is totality? • What society teaches us? • When you can fall into the moment? • What is maturity? • Which is the way to approach life? • What is personality? • Which is real personality or character?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple

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Art of the day : CLOUD PAINTING

Materials needed: Plain sheet,cotton or tissue paper

Explanation: Using dabblng technique makes clouds and represent your image into figures.

Inference: When you are vulnerable, you can open in your entire response system like the cloud.

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Activity of the day; Lemon and spoon game

Explanation: The children have to hold the spoon in the mouth with the lemon placed on the spoon and walk. They have to walk carefully without the lemon falling down. When they drop the lemon they have to wait for the next turn to join the game. Whoever holds the spoon with the lemon correctly and reaches the target will get applause.

Inference: When we integrate ourself with honesty we can achieve anything.

Children playing the lemon and spoon game

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QUESTIONS

1. You cannot be intense in
anything you do unless you are
a. Cunning
b. Clever
c. Innocent

2. Whoever is intense they do
everything like
a. Adult
b. Children
c. Middle aged people

3. Relationship between life
and society
a. Life is no way related to
what society believes in
b. Life is exactly related to
what society believes in
c. Life is sometimes related to
what society believes in

4. When we think, we think in a
a. Generalised way
b. Localized way
c. Selective way

  1. Innocence means purity of a. World b. Outer space c. Inner space
  1. If you express your anger, lust and greed but nothing touches your innerspace then you are a a. Innocent person b. cunning person c. negative person

7. Morality completely depends
on the
a. people
b. situation
c. thoughts

8. All your suffering is because
of
a. logic with intelligence
b. Logic without intelligence
c. Logic with less intelligence

9. Immense trust leads to
a. Failure
b. Surrender
c. Worry

10. Children have greed and
anger, but you cannot call them
a. Pure
b. Impure
c. Negative

11. Innerspace is directly related to

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a. outer world
b. inner world
c. mind

12. Total innocence leads to
a. enlightenment
b. failure
c. stress

13. Logic __________ help you
understand your own life
a. can
b. cannot
c. sometimes

14. __________ If you do not
express your anger, greed and
lust but if they are present in
your innerspace then you are
not a
a. cunning person
b. Innocent person
c. Negative person

15. __________ When you completely
accept you
a. need the mind
b. don't need the mind
c. rarely need the mind

  1. __________ We cannot be intellect when we are a. hearing b. listening c. observing
  1. __________ Life becomes __________ every moment when we have innocence. a. Ever unfolding mystery b. Mystry c. burden

18. Knowledge makes us
a. Glowing
b. Dull
c. Energetic

19. __________ With innocence
there is always
a. suspicion
b. trust
c. worry

20. __________ which denies the
mystery of the present
moment
a. knowledge
b. Intelligence
c. Intuition

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21. The present is
a. opened gift
b. unopened gift
c. unavoidable burden

22. what is the
relationship between listening
and hearing
a. Hearing is different from
listening
b. hearing is same as lisening
c. hearing is better than listen

23. It is through the
process of trying to ascertain
the moment that the
_________ takes root.
a. fear of society
b. fear of unknown
c. fear of definite

24. _________
believes in Instilling a set of
false beliefs in the child.
a. Mother
b. society
c. Religion

25. What is nothing but
an individual and
independent interpretation of
something
a. Innocence

b. Belief c. Intellect

26. _________ is a
hinderance to knowing
a. Intelligence
b. knowledge
c. intellect

27. The unconsious
response becomes your
a. Intellect
b. instinct
c. Belief

28. Existence is
_________ every moment.
a. fresh
b. same
c. continuation of past
patterns every moment

29. The unknown can be
known only by
a. knowledge
b. Intelligence
c. Intellect

30. The inner silence is
the
a. trouble zone
b. treasure zone
c. tragic zone

b. ego c. beliefs

31. ____________________
happens out belief
a. Action
b. Activity
c. Arrogance

32. ____________________ happens
out of understanding
a. Action
b. Activity
c. Arrogance

33. ____________________ creates
energy and inspiration
a. Action
b. Activity
c. Attention

34. ____________________ In silence there is ____________________ a. Innocence b. Intellect c. Ignorance

35. ____________________ In words there is a. Innocence b. Intellect c. Ignorance

36. ____________________ We base our whole life on a. jealousy

37. ____________________ causes
fatigue when you don't have
interest
a. Action
b. Activity
c. Attention

38. ____________________ What is the
relationship between
communication and
communion
a. communion is between two
hearts , communication is
between two heads
b. communication is between
two hearts and communion is
between two heads
c. communication and
communion is same

39. ____________________ knows
the beauty of purposelessness
a. Innocence
b. knowledge
c. Intellect

40. ____________________ Children lose their innocence to the a. love b. gratitude c. conditioning

[Figure: Innocence image]

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c. I and stays in mine

47 The mind mostly say
a. Says
b. No
c. O.K.

41. Education evaluates
you by your own
a. utility
b. knowledge
c. strengths

48. __________ is the
science of merging with
existence
a. Atomic physics
b. Astronomy
c. Spirituality

42. Innocence may miss
a. facts
b. truths
c. values

49. Which is the
opposite of vulnerability
a. Strong
b. Cunningness
c. Resistence

43. __________ can
receive the truth
a. Innocence
b. Intellect
c. Ignorance

50. we are all the time
between
a. doing and being
b. doing and having
c. having and being

44. Vulnerability is
a. not weakness
b. weakness
c. dullness

51. What is the relation
between surrender and reason
a. surrender and reason are
mutually inclusive
b. surrender and reason are
mutually exclusive
c. surrender and reason are
same

45. The being is like a
a. poetry
b. prose
c. puzzle

46. Ego starts with
a. I and then moves to mine
b. Mine and then moves to I

[Figure: Innocence baby]

52. What does
Acceptance means?
a. Welcoming life
b. Compromising life
c. Resisting life

53. If you grow up in
seriousness you
a. Only grow old
b. Only grow young
c. Only grow slowly

54. The totality of the
innocence is called as
a. Seriousness
b. Grace
c. Stress

55. What is innocence
a. Thoughtful awareness
b. Thoughtless awareness
c. Serious awareness

56. Expressing the emotions in
filtered way is a sign of
a. Arrogance
b. Innocence
c. Ignorance

57. What is intelligence
plus innocence
a. Cunningness
b. Spontaneity
c. Calculation

58. Seriousness is
a. Sincerity
b. Responsibility
c. Ego

59. What is the
relationship between
character and personality
a. Character is a built up
image personality is real
b. Both character and
personality is same
c. Character is real but
personality is a built up image

60. When you are too centered
on yourself you are
a. Sincere
b. Serious
c. Successful

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Baby

8 TO 14 WORKSHEETS

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1. Connect the dots

Here's a different type of puzzle. To solve it, your brain must uncover patterns. How many squares can you create in this figure by connecting any four dots? Note: The corners of the square must lie upon a grid dot.

dots grid

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2. Matchstick Memories

Years ago, matchsticks were made from small sections of wood. These common and inexpensive objects were perfect props for after-dinner or parlor room activities. Nowadays, toothpicks offer the same advantages. So get your picks together and arrange them in the three patterns shown below.

|| - ||| = ||

X - | = |

||| - || = |V

As you can see, each line of matchsticks forms an incorrect equation. The challenge is to make each one correct by changing the position of only one of the matchsticks in each row.

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3. Cross word puzzle

  1. Purity of inner space
  1. No way related to what society believes in
  1. Makes us dull
  1. Individual perception
  1. Activity creates

4. Join the other half to make the word

Inno union

Bel pty

Perso ence

Em ief

Tr rable

Percep uth

Comm cence

Sil nality

Gra tion

Vulne sp

INNOCENCE

5. Solve the maze path

maze path

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4 TO 7 WORKSHEETS

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1. How many differences can you find ?

Two panels showing identical scenes with cartoon dinosaurs to spot differences
Two panels showing identical scenes with cartoon dinosaurs to spot differences

INNOCENCE

2. Draw this clown by copying square by square

Clown to copy and empty grid

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3. These people have the wrong heads. Write the number of the correct head by each body

[Figure: ballerina body]

[Figure: old person body]

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4. Which is the missing jigsaw piece ?

jigsaw puzzle
jigsaw puzzle pieces

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INNOCENCE

5. Colour the picture

A girl in a hood pointing at a wolf

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6. Write the starting letter of the pictures unscramble the words

pictures in a circle

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7. Shadow matching

[Figure: Baby lying down]

[Figure: Baby sitting and laughing]

[Figure: Baby with fingers in mouth]

[Figure: Baby sitting on floor]

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Innocence baby image

INNOCENCE

8. Join the other half to make the word

Inno union

Bel pty

Perso ence

Em ief

Tr rable

Percep uth

Comm cence

Sil nality

Gra tion

Vulne sp

INNOCENCE

9. Join the dots and colour

A drawing of a baby to be traced

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10. What's hatching? Look at the pictures and work out the correct order of this story. Write the numbers 1 to 4 in the boxes.

A hen with chicks
A hen sitting on eggs in a nest
Chicks emerging from cracked eggs
Eggs starting to crack in a nest

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Innocence image

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ANSWERS

  1. c. Innocent mystery
  1. b. Children
  1. a. Life is no way related to what society believes in
  1. c. Selective way
  1. c. Inner space
  1. a. Innocent person
  1. b. situation
  1. b. Logic without intelligence
  1. b. Surrender
  1. b. Impure
  1. b. inner world
  1. a. enlightenment
  1. b. cannot
  1. b. Innocent person
  1. b. don't need the mind
  1. b. listening
  1. a. Ever unfolding
  1. b. Dull
  1. b. trust
  1. a. knowledge
  1. b. unopened gift
  1. a. Hearing is different from listening
  1. b. fear of unknown
  1. b. society
  1. b. Belief
  1. b. knowledge
  1. b. instinct
  1. a. fresh
  1. b. Intelligence
  1. b. treasure zone
  1. b. Activity
  1. a. Action
  1. a. Action
  1. a. Innocence

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Innocence baby

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Nithyananda

35. b. Intellect

36. c. beliefs

37. b. Activity

38. a. communion is
between two hearts ,
communication is between two
heads

39. a. Innocence

40. c. conditioning

41. a. utility

42. a. facts

43. a. Innocence

44. a. not weakness

45. a. poetry

46. b. Mine and then moves to I

47. b. No

48. c. Spirituality

49. b. Cunningness

50. b. doing and having

51. b. surrender and reason are mutually exclusive

52. a. Welcoming life

53. a. Only grow old

54. b. Grace

55. a. Thoughtful awareness

56. a. Arrogance

57. b. Spontaneity

58. c. Ego

59. c. Character is
real but personality is a built
up image

60. b. Serious

INNOCENCE

(8 -14) ANSWER KEY

1. Connect the dots Eleven squares

Connect the dots puzzle solution

5 small 4 medium 2 large

2. Matchstick Memories

Matchstick puzzle solution

3. Cross word puzzle

  1. Innocence
  1. Life
  1. Knowledge
  1. Belief
  1. Fatigue

4. Join the other half to make the word

  1. Innocence
  1. Belief
  1. Personality
  1. Empty
  1. Truth
  1. Perception
  1. Communion
  1. Silence
  1. Grasp
  1. Vulnerable

[Figure: Innocence baby icon]

4 - 7 ANSWER KEY

6. Write the starting letter of the pictures unscramble the words 1.Innocence

8. Join the other half to make the word

  1. Innocence
  1. Belief
  1. Personality
  1. Empty
  1. Truth
  1. Perception
  1. Communion
  1. Silence
  1. Grasp
  1. Vulnerable

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