LESSON: 5🔗

Introduction: Review yesterday's topic, expand on how love connects and how ego disconnects and talk about how love gives unity and courage.

Click: Ego Vs Love.

Goal: To make them aware of the topic of ego, I, mine, how ego closes inner space.

About the topic: When we do things that we like most we have our full attention and concentration towards that activity. When we are alert we are aware of the things that going on around us. Babies are always looking around, not busy thinking about themselves and there is very less ego. They are so open like a sponge that they take it all in and that is how they learn and progress quickly. When we think we are so big and we think we know it all and there comes in our ego. We become assertive about what we think and ego closes our inner space. It is all about 'I', 'Mine' and it makes you feel above everyone else and powerful but actually with ego it is power alone. We fail to understand that along with power full responsibilities come. It cuts off friends and others as ego is the opposite of causeless love. Love brings others closer to us, we become courageous and selfless; ego shuts all the energy around us.

Love brings a huge patience. Only when love is missing we can get irritated. When we are in love we have intense patience, courage, we are able to completely surrender and experience true love. When we are in deep love we can do anything. Deep love and deep participation that is real you.

When real love happens, you overflow with so much energy that you will have courage to share whatever you have with others. You get tremendous confidence. Whenever it is energy, time, talent, or pleasure, only when you are overflowing you can really share it. Love happens only naturally. Love is a flower that blossoms deep within your being and sends out a sweet fragrance that you share it with others.

Love without purpose is real love. Love without any condition, causeless love, unconditional love is real love.

Love opens our inner space, gives us unity, tremendous courage and energy. Love can makes us finally available to ourselves. Ego is like frozen ice and love is like liquid water. Consciousness can do two things. It can create ego, or it can create egoless. If it creates ego we live in hell, if it creates egoless we live in paradise.

Assessment: ● What are the things you love to do? ● What is ego? Which part of us is ego? ● Do babies have ego? ● When do we have full attention? ● Which is the close state of consciousness? ● Which is the opposite of love? ● What do you feel when you feel you are powerful? ● Whom do you want to be your friend a person who has ego or person who is open and without ego? ● How does ones ego affect a person's inner space? ● How does consciousness create ego/ egoless state? What would be the outcome in both? ● Can love be created? ● Can love be made to happen by our logical decision? ● Can love be conditional? ● Why is love unconditional? ● What is causeless love?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions regarding, ego, love, unity and courage.

Conclusion: Follow the path of love and be courageous and lovable.

Materials Needed: Paper, Pencil or Sketch pen

Procedure: Ask the children to think about global peace and ask them to draw what they understand by global peace. Every one can imagine a picture about global peace and draw that picture.

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LOVE

Preparation: Fill up the tub half way with water and have the children gather in a circle for this activity.

Discussion: Take the large sponge and show it to the class.

Ask everyone what it is.

Can it absorb water? What does the water represent? Answer: Love

If we are an open person, able to give and receive love we are able to be filled with love...just like the sponge.

Demonstrate how the sponge absorbs the water and is filled to overflowing. The sponge is able to float on the water and also absorb at the same time. Like the sponge, we need to be open, living life as an open and beautiful person who is also able to be full of love and happily live the life.

But the stone is hard and closed with no love. It is neither able to absorb love nor live life happily.

Demonstrate how it is not able to absorb the water of love. You can pour water over it but the water only runs down with no effect. Also when it is dropped into the water, it only sinks!

What do you want to be? The sponge or the stone?

Give each of them a sponge and let them all have their sponges absorb the water, and show how they can be open and filled with love.

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