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Content: BHAGAVAD GITA BOOK IV, VOLUME VI 'Sacrifice' Is The Attitude Of Giving

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Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is recognized as the 1008th living manifestation of Paramashiva, Paramavatar of Paramaśiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma (“Hinduism”) and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts. The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam, is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism).

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Content: THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM The SPH was coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest apex monastic order) and the youngest Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam, ordained as the 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Dharmamukthi Swargapuram Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the reigning spiritual emperor of 20 ancient traditional Hindu kingdoms and the reviver of the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people.

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Content: Hinduism is the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people despite fundamental differences in their preferences and realities.

Content: Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions).

Content: The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam.

Content: Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.

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Section: INTRODUCTION TO BHAGAVAD GITA: SONG OF GOD

Content: Srīmad Bhagavad Gītā is the ultimate sacred scripture of yoga, Yogaśastra and the pristine glory of the Vedic culture, the eternal living tradition called sanātana-dharma. It belongs to the whole Universe for it is delivered to the Universe by the source and embodiment of Universe. We salute and bow down to Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who spoke the Bhagavad Gītā out of His infinite love and compassion for all beings.

Content: Whenever unrighteousness, adharma becomes predominant and dharma, righteous living declines and the Yoga of Enlightenment is lost, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Consciousness appears again and again to revive this sacred yoga, to protect and to enrich the devoted beings; and destroys adharma to re-establish the pure and everlasting dharma.

Content: Gītā is also called Brahmavidyā—the Knowledge of Brahman, the supreme absolute truth; it is Jīvan Mukti Vijñāna—the Science of Living Enlightenment.

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Section: INTRODUCTION TO BHAGAVAD GITA: SONG OF GOD

Content: As with all scriptures, it is the knowledge and experience that is transmitted verbally as Śrī Krṣṇārjuna Sam̐vād, an intimate dialogue between Master of the world, Jagadguru Lord Śrī Krṣṇa and His dear devotee and disciple, Arjuna. It is called śruti in Samskrit, meaning something that is heard. Gītā, as Bhagavad Gītā is generally called, translates literally from Samskṛit as ‘Sacred Song of God’. Unlike the Vedas and Upaniṣads, which are stand alone expressions of Truth, the Gītā is written into the greatest Hindu epic, the Mahābhārat, called a purāṇa, an ancient historical happening. It is part of the recorded history of the greatest tradition, the paramount civilization in all its Divine grandeur and its human complexity, so to speak. No other epic or part of an epic has the special status and space of the Gītā. No other book but the Gītā gives a scientific, systematic, applied science of living joyfully in completion, while empowering the human action-field with authenticity to evolve into a responsible Divine play-field.

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Content: Called the royal supreme knowledge and the royal secret of secrets—rājavidyā rājaguhyam (9.2), this one sacred book conveys the essence of knowledge contained in all written and oral vedic truths to enrich the simplest to complex humans at all planes. It holds within itself the direct key to every possible human enquiry, the solution to every dilemma of emotions, and the sublime righteous path and goal of every quest of rising or falling civilizations for every age, time or geography. As a consequence of the presence of the Gītā, the Mahābhārat epic itself is considered a sacred Hindu scripture.

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Section: INTRODUCTION TO BHAGAVAD GITA: SONG OF GOD

Content: Gītā arose from the super consciousness of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme God, the complete Incarnation Puṛṇāvatār, and is therefore considered Gītāśastra—the essential scripture, knowing which, one is liberated from all incompletions, yaj jñātvā mokṣyase asubhāt (9.1) and Gītopanisad—the essence of all Upaniṣads, the purest and highest knowledge to be ever known and cognized because it gives the direct experience of the Self—pavitram idam uttamam pratyakṣāvagam dharmyam (9.2).

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Content: Gītā is the ultimate practical teaching on the inner science of spirituality that expresses as outer victory and success in life now and after. It is not, as some scholars incorrectly claim, a promotion of violence. It is about the impermanence of the mind and body, and the need to go beyond the mind, ego and logic. The answers of the Divine, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, transcend time and space. Śrī Kṛṣṇa's message is everlasting and joyfully performed, and is as valid today as it was on that fateful battlefield over five thousand years ago. The science of Gītā is the eternal technique of living in completion; the song of Gītā is the eternal life-enriching nectar, having no expiry date, time or age!

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Content: Mahābhārat, literally meaning the great Bhārata, is a grand narration about the nation and civilization, which is now known as India. It was then a nation ruled by king Bhārata and his descendants.

Content: Look into your life! Your whole life is nothing but the Mahābhārat War. The Mahābharāt should be read again and again to understand the intricacies of life, the complications of life, and the ability to handle life.

Content: The true story of this perfectly recorded epic is about two warring clans, Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas, closely related to one another. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, the blind king of Hastināpur and father of the 100 Kaurava brothers was the brother of Pāṇḍu, whose children were the five Pāṇḍava princes.

Content: It is a tale of strife between cousins and ultimately between dhārmic and adhārmic, righteous and unrighteous civilizations.

Content: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Since Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind, Pāṇḍu was made the king of Hastināpura. Pāṇḍu was cursed by a sage that he would die if he ever entered into a physical relationship with his wives. He therefore had no children. Vyāsa says that all the five Pāṇḍava children were born to their mothers Kuntī and Mādrī through the blessing of divine beings. Pāṇḍu handed over the kingdom and his children to his blind brother.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Kuntī, who is the embodiment of tapas, spiritual penance, had received a boon when she was still a young unmarried adolescent, that she could summon any divine power at will to father a child. Before she married, she tested her boon. The Sun god, Sūrya appeared before her. Karṇa was born to her as a result. In fear of social reprisals, she cast the newborn away in a river. Yudhiṣṭra, Bhīma and Arjuna were born to Kuntī after her marriage by invocation of her powers, and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva were born to Mādri, the second wife of Pāṇḍu.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Yudhiṣṭra was born to Kuntī as a result of her being blessed by Yama, the god of death, dharma and justice, Bhīma by Vāyu, the god of wind, and Arjuna by Indra, god of all the divine beings. Nakula and Sahadeva, the youngest Pāṇḍava twins, were born to Mādri, through the Divine Aśvini twins. Dhṛtarāṣṭra had a hundred sons through his wife Gāndhārī. The eldest of these Kaurava princes was Duryodhana. Duryodhana felt no love for his five Pāṇḍava cousins. He made many unsuccessful attempts, along with his brother Duśśāsana, to kill the Pāṇḍava brothers. Kuntī’s eldest son Karṇa, whom she had cast away at birth, was found and brought up by a chariot driver in the palace, and by a strange twist of fate, joined hands with Duryodhana.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: Dhṛtarāṣṭra gave Yudhiṣṭra one half of the Kuru kingdom on his coming of age, since the Pāṇḍava prince was the rightful heir to the throne that his father Pāṇḍu had vacated.

Content: Yudhiṣṭra ruled from his new capital Indraprastha, along with his brothers Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva.

Content: Arjuna won the hand of princess Draupadī, daughter of the king of Pāñcāla, in a svayaṃvara, a marital contest in which princes fought for the hand of a fair damsel.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: In fulfillment of their mother Kuntī’s desire that the brothers share everything equally, Draupadī became the wife of all five Pāṇḍava brothers. Duryodhana persuaded Yudhiṣṭra to join a gambling session, where his cunning uncle Śakunī defeated the Pāṇḍava king. Yudhiṣṭra lost all that he owned—his kingdom, his brothers, his wife and himself, to Duryodhana. Duśśāsana shamed Draupadī in public by trying to disrobe her. The Pāṇḍava brothers and Draupadī were forced to go into exile for fourteen years, with the condition that in the last year they should live incognito or ajyāta vāsa.

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Section: WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MAHABHARATA?

Content: At the end of the fourteen years, the Pāṇḍava brothers tried to reclaim their kingdom. In this effort they were helped by Śrī Krṣṇa, the king of the Yādava clan, who is the eighth divine incarnation of Bhagavān Viṣṇu. However, Duryodhana refused to yield even a needlepoint of land, and as a result, the Great War, the War of Mahābhārat ensued. In this war, various rulers of the entire nation that is modern India aligned with one or the other of these two clans, the Kauravas or the Pāṇḍavas.

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Content: Kṛṣṇa offered to join with either of the two clans. He says, ‘One of you may have Me unarmed. I will not take any part in the battle. The other may have my entire Yādava army.’ When the offer was first made to Duryodhana, he predictably chose the large and well-armed Yādava army, Nārāyaṇī Senā, in preference to the unarmed Kṛṣṇa. Arjuna joyfully and gratefully chose his dearest friend, his life mentor and his Guru, Kṛṣṇa, Nārāyaṇa, to be his unarmed charioteer!

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Section: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Content: This whole history is such a beautiful happening. Mahābhārat is actually your life! Every character in the Mahābhārat teaches so much! We don’t need to go anywhere for our life success or fulfillment or for anything else that we may desire. We don’t need to study any other book to learn the human psychology or the science of living and leaving. Whether we seek righteous living—dharma; or we want to learn business or administration, economy or abundance—artha; or we want to create the best rich lifestyle—kāma; or we want to be a leader and want the enriching life of being enlightened—mokṣa, for all these purposes, we don’t need anything other than the Mahābharāt!

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Section: Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābharāt!

Content: Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābharāt! Any character we see in our life is mapped to Mahābharāt’s one character. They are either half or full representation of some character. To know how to handle them and even handle yourself, just see how Śrī Kṛṣṇa handles them and handle them the same way. The Mahābharāt war is a representation of life as it was lived in that age. Vyāsa, its author is an unbiased historian who recorded the whole history as it happened without trying to apply any makeup. People ask whether the Mahābharāt war happened at all!

Section: THE SIGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Content: THE SIGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Section: THE SiGNiFiCANCE OF MAHABHARAT

Content: If the Mahābharāt was a story and not history, Vyāsa should receive multiple Pulitzer prizes for his highly creative work! The Mahābharāt is the longest literary work in the whole world with hundred thousand Samskṛit verses—the longest poem ever written with such delicate harmony of unmatched poetic perfection. It is larger than the Greek epics. Vyāsa had no computer, no tape recorder with speech-to-text capabilities. He dictated and Bhagavān Ganeṣa wrote it down!

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Section: CHARACTER SKETCH

Content: Yudhiṣṭra is embodiment of Integrity—the power of words, vāk śakti. Bhīma is embodiment of Authenticity—the power of thoughts, mano śakti. Arjuna is embodiment of Responsibility—the power of feeling, prema śakti. Sahadeva is embodiment of Enriching—the power of living, ātma śakti. Nakula is embodiment of causing reality for others.

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Section: Śakuni

Content: Śakuni, the maternal uncle of Duryodhana embodies the pattern of self-hatred, which is cunningness personified.

Section: Droṇa

Content: Droṇa represents all the best knowledge one imbibes and the teachers one encounters, who guide us but are unable to take us through to the ultimate flowering of enlightenment. It is difficult to give them up since one feels grateful to them. This is where the Enlightened Master, the incarnation steps in and guides us.

Section: Duryodhana

Content: Duryodhana, represents one’s ego or root-pattern, the most difficult to conquer as it leads one to self-destruction. One needs the full help of the Master here. It is subtle work and even the Master’s help may not be obvious, since at this point, sometimes the ego makes us deny and disconnect from the Master as well.

Section: CHARACTER SKETCH

Content: Karṇa is the repository of all good deeds and it is his good deeds that stand in the way of his own Enlightenment. Śrī Krṣṇa has to take the load of Karṇa's puṇya, his meritorious deeds, before he could be liberated. The Enlightened Master guides one to drop one's attachment to good deeds arising out of what are perceived to be charitable and compassionate intentions. He also shows us that the quest for and the experience of enlightenment is the ultimate act of compassion that one can offer to the world.

Content: Bhagavan Śri Krṣṇa, the 8th most powerful purnāvatar of Maha Viṣnu, is the embodiment of pure celebration, boundless love, compassion, and completion. Bhagavan Śri Krṣṇa is the only incarnation demonstrating and expressing Sarva Mangalatva all the auspicious qualities and all dimensions of an avatar during His physical happening. The līla Bhagavan Śri Krsna is one of sheer innocence and simplicity, in a peace-loving, diplomatic, conflict-free way.

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Content: Till now everyone blames Bhagavan Sri Krishna for this Kurukshetra war but that's the greatest sacrifice Bhagavan Sri Krishna did to save the planet Earth. If Kurukshetra was not conducted at that time under the controlled conditions and direct supervision of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, planet Earth would not have survived more than three years.

Content: The wide spread availability of the Astra shastras without Shastra, without the knowledge and vision, was posing a huge threat to the whole of humanity and planet Earth, and for life itself. The greatest achievement of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is destroying all the weapons in one controlled condition and saving planet earth, eliminating the nuclear weapons and the knowledge of these nuclear weapons to save humanity from total annihilation.

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Content: Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator, in glorifying the Gītā sings, 'the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who drinks the nectar of Gītā?

Content: Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat, bhāratamṛta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān kṛṣṇa Himself.'

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Content: The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state of Haryana in modern day India. All the kings and princes were related to one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerlessness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

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Content: Śrī Kṛṣṇa's dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745) verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620) verses responding to Arjuna's fifty-seven (57) enquiries.

Content: Śrī Kṛṣṇa persuades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfiting an Ārya—the spiritually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms and vanquish his enemies. They are already dead,' says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, 'All those who are facing you have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do. That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that to Me.'

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Section: ४.२६

Content: श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति । शब्दादीन्विषयानन्य इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति ॥ ४-२६॥ śrotrādī nīndriyānyanye samyamāgniṣu juhvati | śabdādīnviṣayānanya indriyāgniṣu juhvati ||

Section: POWERFUL COGNITION

Content: 'Sacrifice', it is not just the act of giving, but the attitude of giving.

Section: ४.२७

Content: सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे । आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञानदीपिते ॥ ४-२७॥

Content: sarvāṇīndriyakarmāṇi prāṇakarmāṇi cāpare I ātmasamyamayogāgnau juhvati jñānadī pite

Content: POWERFUL COGNiTiON

Content: The very act of enriching, the welcoming attitude is what is important.

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Section: 4.28

Content: द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे । स्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतयः संशितव्रताः ॥ ४=२८ ॥

Section: INTRODUCTION

Content: In all these verses, Kṛṣṇa talks about various types of sacrifices. ‘Sacrifice’, it is not just the act of giving, but the attitude of giving. Otherwise, you may do everything, following all rituals according to the scriptures, but you will miss out on the real intent for which the act had to be done. A beautiful story from the Bhāgavatam, the ancient Hindu epic: Once, Kṛṣṇa was playing with his friends. After playing, his friends were tired and they asked Kṛṣṇa for food. Kṛṣṇa replied, ‘Go to the nearby hall where the learned brāhmaṇas (priests) are performing a great ritual to attain heaven. Tell them that you have been sent by Me and request them to give you some cooked rice.’

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Content: Krṣṇa's friends went as directed and asked the brāhmaṇas,

Content: 'Krṣṇa sent us here. We are hungry and Krṣṇa asked us to seek food from you.'

Content: The brāhmaṇas were all caught up in the rituals and sacrifices, not knowing the intent of the sacrifice. The very divine energy for which the sacrifice was being made was asking for an offering, but the brāhmaṇas could not realise that and did not give the boys any food. Krṣṇa's friends returned disappointed.

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Content: Kṛṣṇa, on hearing about the foolish brāhmaṇas, just laughed and said, ‘Now, go to the innocent wives of these brāhmaṇas and ask them the same thing. The friends now went to the wives told them,

Content: ‘O ladies, we have been sent here by Kṛṣṇa who was playing with us nearby. We are hungry and have come to you for food.’

Content: The ladies, on hearing that they had been given such a wonderful opportunity to enrich by serving, gathered all the food from their houses and rushed to feed Kṛṣṇa and his friends.

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Section: ATiTHi DEVO BHAVA', THE GUEST iS GOD.

Content: The very act of enriching, the welcoming attitude is what is important. A beautiful verse in the Mahābharat that says, ‘A guest comes with all the gods. If the guest is honored, so are the gods; if he goes away disappointed, the gods are disappointed too.’ That is why in Saṃskṛit, we say, ‘atithi devo bhava’, the guest is God. ‘Tithi’ means date and prefix ‘a’ negates it. Therefore, one who arrives unexpectedly without a prior appointment is atithi or guest. When somebody comes unexpectedly also, serving him is the real welcoming attitude. The word used for ritual giving in Saṃskṛit is ‘dāna’, which means sharing, imparting.

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Section: GOALS:

Content: Impress upon the child that more than the act or ritual of giving, the welcoming attitude with which you give is important.

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Section: ASSESSMENTS

Content: What kind of attitude is important to have when making a donation or ritualistic fire sacrifice? How should an unexpected guest be treated?

Content: ART OF THE DAY

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Section: ART OF THE DAY: INVITATION CARD

Content: ART OF THE DAY: INVITATION CARD MATERIALS NEEDED: 1. Color paper 2. Color pens PROCEDURE Make an invitation card inviting your friend to come to your home to attend a satsang/meditation program you are hosting. In the alternative, you may make a public flier inviting people to a public satsang / spirituality program. INFERENCE Through your card put in every effort to make guests feel welcome. CONCLUSION Having a welcoming attitude towards your guests is a must.

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Content: ACTIVITY OF THE DAY

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Section: ACTiViTY OF THE DAY: ATTiTUDE OF GiViNG

Content: MATERIALS NEEDED: 1. Some of your favorite organic sattvik food and drinks PROCEDURE: You can split the group in 2 or 3 and ask each group to plan a meal for the others whom they will receive as guests. Ask them to contemplate and imbibe the attitude of giving along with the act of giving. At the end, ask the guests to share how their experience was. INFERENCE: Receiving a guest is receiving God.

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Content: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY

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Section: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Content: WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Section: Procedure:

Content: Procedure: Lets Think, Pair and Share. The group is allotted the task of planning a half day spirituality seminar for 20 visually impaired persons at a conference hall at a near-by hotel. Children are asked to think about all the infrastructure and arrangements they would like to put in place to ensure that the event is hospitable, and meets any special needs of the intended audience. Pair up your students. Give each pair of students enough time so they can reach a set of ideas, and permit the kids to share their conclusion in their voice with the rest of the Group. The moderator to list down all viable ideas shared by the group and read them out at the end of the session, as a conclusion reached.

Section: Conclusion:

Content: Conclusion: For a sacrifice to be successful, what matters more than the ritualistic steps followed to make the offer, is the attitude with which the offer is made.

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