Hari Om Parents!
We had a short class but there were interesting spirited conversations in the class.
We recapped last week's conversation in a group format. We had a conversation about Atma, Conscience and soul. We divided the class into 2 groups. We were asking the students in one group to question the other group and guide the conversations. We discussed the key things that Karma needs to have like Doer, activity, results and discussed when the results will come. The result can pass from one life to another as Atma carries from one body to another. In this respect, Atma is carried forward to sentient beings.
There were a lot of questions and side discussions in the class on the below aspects:
What is Consciousness?
Is Atma and consciousness one and the same?
Is "soul" term used in western culture same as "Atma" ?
We spent a long time guiding the conversations and keeping the focus.
In one of the side conversations, we discussed how leaders talk. We need to think of what we have to say, structure it and clearly talk. The class picked this (somewhat) and we had conversations where (most) people raised their hands to talk. We need to work on this more since the class gets distracted easily.
In another side conversation, we talked about observing ourselves. We did a short exercise and asked the class to focus on breath. This was a good experiment because the class was focussed.
It was a 40 min class. We then had house activity. The class was divided into different houses based on the house-sorting quiz they took. Our grade students took leadership in guiding other students through the house activity. The activity today was to pack cutlery for donation to a kitchen. We will share some pictures in the whatsapp group.
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Pranams,
Selvi
Partha
