Activity of the day: change painting
Materials needed:
Poster colours, plain sheet, pencil crayon,
Explanation:
Encourage the children to do drawing in the paper and paint it with poster colours ask them to dry the painting and tear each of their painting.
Now ask each child share and interchange part of their painting with the other child and form a new collage. Encourage each child to explain what they interpret from the new collage. Ask them to discuss how was this change in painting perceived by them.
Inference:
We are afraid of death because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change in life.
Introduction:
Introduce to the children about why are we afraid of death.
Goals :
To make the children understand about the mystery of death.
About the topic:
Why is the whole of humanity struggling against, one thing, the only thing that it is a certainty in all our lives. We are afraid because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change in life. Man thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. We are afraid because we do not know who we are. We hold an identity of ourselves inside us, based on our family, relationships, job, wealth, social image.
Death removes this very identity foundation on which our identity is built, so we feel death snatches everything that is ours. Our understanding about death or rather misunderstanding about death, makes death a fearful, frightening experience. The man who resists death dies even while he lives. Losing anything is a form of death. Losing your comfortable life is one form of death.
Every part of your body i.e. connected to someone or the other. Your being is not an individual being. It is not a love, separate, as your think. We are all interlinked. That is why we undergo terrible suffering when we lose someone or something. All that we understand of death is that it is anti-life. Again because of our fear we think too much about death. In the mystery of death lies the answer to life. If you know the secret of death, the quality of your life will be different. Your very understanding and attitude towards everything will change. We can actually use our lives to prepare for death. Death is not a mere incident at the end of your life. It is a profound knowing. If you know how the die, you know how to live. Living and leaving are new sides of the same thing.
Assessment:
- Which is certainty in all our lives?
- Which is the abrupt change in life?
- · Which makes us incapable of living in the present ?
- What removes the identity foundation?
- Which makes death a powerful experience?
- What is death?
- Is your being an individual one?
Evaluation:
Evaluate how well understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion:
In the mystery of death lies the answer to life.