Hari Om Parents
After discussing the ten values of life that characterize Dharma, in this class we went back to our previous learnings of the Laws of Karma and definition of
What is Dharma
- Dharma" stands for that which holds up (or supports) the existence of a thing.
- The essential nature of a thing is therefore called its Dharma. (e.g. Water flows. Fluidity is its Dharma)
What is the is this essential nature or Dharma of man?
- The Hindus strongly and emphatically uphold that it is the power of "becoming" divine that distinguishes man from all other beings.
We started the class by randomly telling the kids that had to perform for a play. They were to come up with the concept, plot, characters etc and we gave them 7 mins ( in the interest of time)
As expected there was quite a chaos. After 7 mins of noise, we drew a parallel between life which in itself is a performance whose duration we do not know, we dont get to rehearse, we know we are a character in the play and the best of all we have no clue what the script of the play is. Then what can we do so our performance is stellar.
We learn
- Facts of our lives
- How to fix our goal
- How to draft a roadmap and reach the goal so that we can be a victor in our lives.
Facts of life
- There are no rehearsals in life. Each moment is the real performance.
- Life is a one-way street, from birth to death.
- Once the moment passes, it never returns.
- There are 6 stages in life
- Jayate - Birth
- Asti - We live in the world
- Vardhate - grow
- Viparinamate - bodily changes
- Apakshiyate - body decays
- Nashyate - death
- It is not possible to rewind our life
- Everyone of us will go through certain common experiences in life regardless of which kind of family we are born into
- We find ourselves at the crossroads of choices that we have to make. What helps to make a good choice is when we keep a goal in life.
- Once we fix a goal, prepare and follow a roadmap to go through the maze of life
- We will reach our desired destination.
Yaksha Prashna
- What is ego?
- Ignorance is ego.
- What is dambha (pretence)?
- To show off one's own self as a greater being than what it is, is dambha.
- What is daivam (divine)?
- The result of dënam is daivam.
- What is paiõunyam (cruelty)?
- To point a finger (blaming) at others is cruelty
Hari Om
Sapna ji and Harish ji