Nov 2018 - 7th grade

Jñanam (PO Box Mr. God)

Be in good company – Always try to be in good company and get influenced by good people. The more we are with good people, the more we want to be like them and never get bored of doing the right thing.

Have the highest goal - a goal that you can never reach, but you grow in the process of achieving it – Watched Gurudev’s video snippet of how to keep a goal in life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTnN2icTm8

Instead of having a goal “I want to be a cardiologist”, change the goal to “I want to be the BEST cardiologist”.

See good in others – Talked about different animals (giraffe, peacock, elephant), how weird each animal actually is, but how we accept them as they are without wanting to change anything in them. Accept others as they are without wanting to change them and see the good in them. Watched snippet from Kung fu Panda where the 5 make fun of Po - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyHTJyfnrV0. Talked about Gurudev’s quote – When love is thick faults are thin, when love is thin, faults are thick.

God’s gifts – Our 5 senses of perception and 5 senses of action are God’s gifts to us. Without these we cannot learn anything, cannot communicate and cannot live normal lives. Whenever we feel like we have lost everything, remember about the 10 organs of perception and action and be grateful for what we have.

Played a game to try and communicate being blindfolded, with ear plugs, with tied hands etc.

Secret of Success – knowledge, humility, hard work, laugh at yourself, take failures as learning experiences. Kids discussed what success means to them. If success is happiness, how do you know you are happy. Discussion topics - What is happiness? How long does it last? Does it last forever? How to make it last forever?

Your sevaks,
Vidya Narayanan, Srinivas Andhavarapu