Art of the Day - Your home🔗

Materials needed: Paper, Pencil or Sketch.

Procedure: Encourage each child to draw a picture about their home, their house and some representational picture of their home. Encourage each child to draw in the picture what all needs and wants they want in their house.

Introduction: Introduce about the Seven layers of Pyramid

Goals: To understand and realize that some things we need, and some things we only desire. Looking within will help us to find bliss.

Click: Bliss is being satisfied.

There are seven layers in the pyramid leading up to bliss. We are going to explore the different levels and decide where we are and discuss how to go into bliss. These energy centre or layers in the pyramid correspond with the seven centers of energy in the Vedic system. Each Centre represents an emotional state as well as a state of the desire. As we fulfill the needs of each Centre, we move up in energy till we reach a state of fulfillment. This is also known as self-actualization (Marlow's hierarchy of needs.)

Instead of starting at the bottom of the pyramid and trying gradually go up and up in life, we can turn our focus inward and experience our true state, which is bliss. When we are in bliss, top of the pyramid, all our true desires will be fulfilled, everything in the pyramid automatically comes to us.

Bliss is experiencing, being happy, being satisfied. We always go from down to top because we listen to ego. When we are with our self, not trying to prove, when we listen to our heart, we can come from top to bottom.

When you have oneness and compassion we can achieve bliss.

Changing the object is never a solution. Changing the attitude is the solution.

By understanding ourselves, we will understand the world.

Assessment: To go through the seven layers and understand what they mean and why we need or want them.

• What are food and medicine? Are they need / want ?
• Do we need clothing and shelter ?

• Is education a need? Why do we need to study?
• In what ways does education help us in our lives?
• What is the difference between needing and wanting money?
• Do we need millions of rupees? Or only want?
• Does money make us happy?

• Can we buy love or friends with money?
• What good things can we do with money?
• What is name and fame? What does that mean?
• Doesn't everyone want to be special and important?
• Will it make us happy if we are famous ?

• What is intellect?
• Does being very intellectual make us happy?
• If we knew everything and had all the answers and were so smart, would that lead us into bliss?
• What is bliss?
• What does that word bliss mean to you?

Activity of the day: Craft make a pyramid of desire

Art of the Day: Mirror image

Evaluation:

• From the seven layered pyramid, which ones are needs?
• Which are wants?
• What is most important thing to remember?

Conclusion: Bliss is found within. This is the zone where we flow free of stress. This is the zone of inner realization. This is the zone where you know that you are one with the universal energy.