PATANJALi ON PAiN
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Patanjali gives a powerful idea and technique. To conquer the pain.
15th sutra, 2nd chapter
Parinaama Tapa samskara dukhaihi guna vrutti virodhath cha dukham eva sarvam vivekinaha to the discriminating viveki,naha all is as it where is painful because everything brings pain either as consequence or of anticipation of laws of happiness or of fresh craving arising out of happiness and also because of gunas contradicting one another
Patanjali says everything is
painful for an intelligent
person. Why? If you have a
painful especially, fear it will
come again, so it is pain.
Even if you have a pleasure
especially, fear that you may
lose it, or craving you may
need it again & again creates
pain. Apart from that, all
these 3 gunas are constantly
fighting. Patanjali almost gives
you a powerful method of
stopping your mind. He is
not saying get depressed. No.
All Patanjali is saying is stop
the hope.
Be hopeless the only way to
hope. Be hopeless that is the
ultimate that can happen in
you. Always all hopes lead u
to hopelessness. Because by
nature, hope leads you to
hopelessness. No other way.
Everything brings pain –
Vivekananda says as consequence
or anticipation of loss of
happiness. Pain is pain. Even if
you have joy, fear of losing or
craving to have it more & more it
will bring pain. If you have pain,
it is pain. If you have pleasure,
either fear or craving is pain. If
nothing happens also, these 3
gunas (attributes) sitting inside
will be fighting with each other.
That is also pain. Then what to
do?.
SWAMiji SAYS:
"THE ULTIMATE LIFE iS WHEN
YOU ARE JUST HOPELESS.
COMPLETELY HOPELESS. STAY
ALWAYS iN BOTTOM, THEN
NOBODY CAN PUSH YOU!"
Do not cling to life because life is
suffering. That is what Buddha means
when he says life is suffering. The 1st
step to start spiritual journey is be
hopeless. Everything will create joy
in you.
TAKE COMPLETE
RESPONSIBILITY TO
DISSOLVE THE PAIN
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Every time we experience pain, it
leaves behind some residual feeling
that remains stuck in the body. This
accumulated pain creates a negative
energy field around us,which we call
the ‘pain body’. The pain body not
only stores, but also starts
reproducing many different kinds of
pains. Again and again, we share
what we create.
.
That's what I always tell people that if wealth is created out of a pain body, we transfer the pain body along with the wealth to the next generation. Wealth should be created just out of a relaxed and blissful mood. Then the wealth can be enjoyed by the person you pass it on topThe pain body constantly attracts the same kind of people and situations that make you feel hurt. By the very law of nature, you attract similar situations in your life. What you think, you create in your life as reality. So the more pain you harbor, the more pain you attract.
GOAL :
Taking complete
responsibility to
dissolve pain
ASSESSMENT:
❖ Ask questions related to the topic and questions about previous classes. ❖ Who can tell me what the emergency call of the body is? ❖ What is phantom pain? ❖ How do we invite pain to our bodies? ❖ What does 'bruised ego' mean? ❖ Does our inner space feel pain? What can we do when we feel pain?
CONCLUSION:
When we drop our ego and go
beyond pain, we won't get 'hurt', we
will only learn, grow and expand.
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
DESIGNS OR PATTERNS
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Paper, pencil, paint
PROCEDURE
Instruct the children to draw any design or pattern that crosses their mind. Encourage them to color the designs or patterns with nice poster colors.
INTERPRETATION:
Pain follows a particular pattern, negative thoughts creates pain Their inner space can be expressed and revealed through the art that they create. Their inner thought flow really creates the patterns and designs that they exhibit.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
(TUG OF ROPE - FEELING THE PAIN)
MATERIALS NEEDED:
strong smooth rope
PROCEDURE
Have two children try this activity. Each takes one side of the rope and wraps it around their hands. Make a line between them and at the count of 3, they both start tugging the rope. Once either crosses the line between them their turn is over. Ask them to both focus while they are playing the activity and after. When they focus their attention, the pain disappears.
AWARENESS DURING
PAIN FREES FROM
PLEASURE AND PAIN.
I N T R O D U C T I O N
When you understand that pleasure
and pain are both creations of the
mind, you will realize that they are
both temporary, they come and go
like soap bubbles. Nobody is needed
to take away your pleasure, because
your mind by its very nature will move
like a pendulum to the other extreme
called pain.
The only way is to go beyond both
pleasure and pain. This doesn’t mean
suppressing pleasure or forgetting
about pain. It is an awareness that
transforms pain to bliss which is the
energy that exists no matter what the
external situation may be. Bliss is your
very nature and cannot be lost. Just
because of your resistance to what is
happening, you feel pain and your
natural bliss is forgotten.
Like darkness, pain, whether it is
physical, mental, or emotional, has
only a negative existence . Darkness
exists only in the absence of light.
As such, it has no positive existence
of its own. In the same way, pain
exists only in the absence of
awareness. Just as darkness
disappears automatically when light
is brought into a room, pain
dissolves automatically when the
energy of your awareness is focused
on it.
GOAL :
To cause in the child a
powerful relationship
with pain and how to
bring awareness and
transform it to creative
energy.
ASSESSMENT:
❖ Who can tell me what the emergency vehicle of the body is? ❖ What activities have we done for pain? ❖ How did you feel after doing the activities? Which was your favorite activity? ❖ How has it helped in your life? ❖ Why we say pain has a negative existence? When does pain exist?
CONCLUSION:
Pleasure and Pain are creations of the
mind. They do not have positive
existence. They have negative
existence. Both disappear when
looked in with Awareness
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
OUTLINE DRAWING
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Paper, pencil or sketch
PROCEDURE
Encourage children to draw the outline of specific structures and ask them to color the outline using sketch pens.
INTERPRETATION:
Pain is the outline of our mental setup. When we create a positive mental set up we will be happy and we will enjoy pain also without resisting it.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
LOVING YOURSELF
VISUALIZATION
MATERIALS NEEDED Paper, pencil or sketch
PROCEDURE: Have all the students lie down in a comfortable position and explain how we are going to freeze our bodies in order to remove pain. Tell them to be frozen solid, not moving a muscle and visualize each area freezing completely. After they have finished ask them how they feel.
INTERPRETATION: Pain is the outline of our mental setup. When we create a positive mental set up we will be happy and we will enjoy pain also without resisting it.
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY
WORKSHOP OF
THE DAY:
CHILDREN CAN
HAVE A QUIZ ON
PAIN QUESTIONS
