Significance of completion
When it comes to completing with 'others' , it does not mean only the friends and family and relatives who are present in your life. Complete with your kula devatā (family deity), complete with your kula guru (family guru), complete with your house, complete with the plants with which you are living, complete with your pet, complete with the different energies of the Cosmos, complete with everything! Continuously complete and continuously enrich others! The real scale and measure of your completion is whether you are able to move the others' space and enrich others and life continuously. If you are not enriching constantly, be very clear, the completion has not yet happened in you.
Art of the day
In Swamiji's Own Words:
When completion happened in me, I just realized the authentic selflessness, śraddha. All our selflessness is also packed in our selfishness. All our selflessness is packed in our selfishness. When I completed, I discovered the authentic selflessness and enriching which never tires me. If you are getting tired, please be very clear, still you have incompletions in you. You have to complete! You have to complete!
Listen! This is the scale—having a tireless mind. The being happened in me is just because my enriching is out of pure selflessness. I tell you, once you complete, you will suddenly realize, 'Why should I live now?'— 'For enriching! Nothing else...Nothing else!' Complete! Complete! Complete!
Goals:
-Helping students complete with themselves, others and the whole Cosmos so they can go on continuously enriching. - Helping students align their 4 images for more authenticity in their lives.
Assessments
- What kind of act can give final results?
- Who should do completion?
- In the days of Mahābhārat, what were sacrifices or yajña directed towards?
- What is the scale to measure our completion?
- When did completion happen in Swamiji?
- What did Swamiji discover when He completed?
- If you are feeling tired of enriching, what does it mean?
Art of the day: Completion with "others"
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- v Playdough of different colours
- v Paper
Art of the day: COMPLETION WITH OTHERS
PROCEDURE:
- Tell the children to create all the "others" in their life using playdough (themselves, mother, father, siblings, kula devatā, best friend, kula guru, pet, cosmos).
- Tell the children to pick each of them up one by one, to close their eyes, and to feel what thought current, emotion comes up (joy, feeling safe, sadness, anger, resentment, misunderstanding, etc.).
- For each "other" , tell the children to write what comes up on their paper.
- Once everyone is done, ask the children to share what has come up in their inner space and discuss how to do completion with each "other".
- Help the children make their own declaration of completion with all the "others" in their lives.
Art of the day: COMPLETION WITH OTHERS
Commit to complete with yourself and others. When I say 'others' , I don't mean only the friends and family and relatives who are present in your life. Complete with your kula devatā (family deity), complete with your kula guru (family guru), complete with your house, complete with the plants with which you are living, complete with your pet, complete with the different energies of the Cosmos, complete with everything! Continuously complete and continuously enrich others!
acTIVITY of the day
Activity of the day: Authenticity: Aligning the four images
MATERIALS NEEDED
- 1. Paper
- 2. Pencil
- 3. Eraser
- 4. Pen
- 5. Ruler
PROCEDURE:
- Tell the children to separate their paper in 4 and write all four images names:
- Inner Image the idea you carry about you Mamakaara
- Outer Image is the idea you project about you to others Ahankaara
- Others' Image what others expect from us Anyakaara
- Life Image is what idea we carry about life and others Swa- Anyakaara
Activity of the day: Authenticity: Aligning the four images
PROCEDURE:
- Tell the children to write a description for each one. Ask them to see whether they align or not and to share their observations with others.
- Discuss how we can align all our four images.
- Discuss what they think happens when all four images align. Discuss how authenticity and enriching sacrifice are connected.
INFERENCE:
The prime requirement is authenticity, śraddha. Śraddha refers as well to the understanding that the enriching act of sacrifice, austerity or charity, yajña, tapas or dāna is not directed towards oneself or a material goal. They are directed to the enrichment of Supreme consciousness.