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January 2012: Spirituality
From January onwards at the Omega School, VBSE will be focussed on the value, Spirituality. During this value, students will explore the following principles, through games, stories, dialogues and other experiential activities suitable for their age group :
- Spirituality is the wonderful journey back to our original home; we are souls having a human experience.
- Spirituality helps us to find balance of body, mind and soul.
- Spirituality brings cheerful acceptance and true inner happiness, joy and love, as opposed to fulfilling wishes. It also allows us to accept suffering as a natural part of growth.
- Spirituality can take us to the deepest part of ourselves, with the guidance of a capable teacher. The heart is our true source of guidance and wisdom.
- Enthusiasm is putting God into whatever we do.
- Spirituality gives us an understanding of life and death.
- Spirituality unites humanity as One and allows us to feel connected to all life.
- Spirituality revives our natural childlike sense of wonder, and helps us remove the limitations of the ego.
- Spirituality leads us towards trust and faith, and gratitude and appreciation for all we receive in this life.
- Spirituality is giving. It is also living in tune with Nature with a sense of gratitude for everything.
"Love is the religion of spirituality." Shri P Rajagopalachari
My Master said, "God cannot be known because He is not an object. But His presence can be felt." Like you say you are happy but you cannot see happiness. Or like electricity, which makes lights and fans and machines turn, but you don't see electricity yourself. So, God is like that. Shri P Rajagopalachari
"Well, we are not born just to die to go to God. Life is supposed to be like a school. You go to school and, there, you can ask the same question. Why do we go to school if we are only going to get out of school at the end of it? You go to school to pass out of school, but in between you learn something. You learn what you have to learn or what you want to learn. You qualify yourself, isn't it? Similarly in life we qualify ourselves in certain ways by living here, by experiencing things, by knowing things, and then, out we go. So, it's like a school classroom. We are not born just to die." Shri P Rajagopalachari
"... the heart is the fount of all wisdom, and the source of intuition and later on, revelation." Shri P Rajagopalachari
"Oh, just sit with your eyes closed and have the thought that all human beings are our brothers and sisters. It brings human brotherhood somehow. It will come. We don't do it properly, so it doesn't come. We must put our heart into this thought, not our mind." Shri P Rajagopalachari
"Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul." Michael Jeffreys