Reality is a Dream

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FEAR STROKES ART FOR DEATH DRAWING

Illustration of an easel with art supplies

MATERIALS NEEDED • Plain sheet • Brush • (sketch pen of dark colours) or pencil.

PROCEDURE Explain the art to the children. Encourage the child to strike with paint brush strokes on the paper, paint more strokes in a random way. This is called fear stroke drawing

INFERENCE Death is a primal fear, that of the unknown. The fear of leaving the body and mind has existed through the ages. We are scared of death because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change.

A portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam