Welcome to HVWSHE

To Bind Back – Religion

Unity – One Humanity

Education –Tuition

Educare – Intuition – from Love

“The word Educare has a sacred inner meaning. That which is manifested by Educare cannot be seen by the eyes, cannot be heard by the ears and cannot be felt by the mind. But all that education confers can be seen, heard and felt.

•What does the flag stand for?

•What does the Mosque, temple,church stand for?

•What does the Government stand for?

•What is our duty? what do we stand for as human beings?

"Water in Culture, Traditions and Religious practice”

Water is one of the major elements that constitute matter and life

•"Water in Culture, traditions and religious practices”

All these elements follow a certain pattern to maintain harmony. This helps maintain life and sustain the order of past generations.

Origin of the body

The hidden link in education that connects the student with values

The seed is the ‘basis for the trunk”, boughs, branches,

twigs, leaves and flowers of a tree, the world is the tree that emanates from the seed

Love, Truth, Right Conduct, Non-Violence, Peace

Is the seed from which we come from

Brain storming and discussion

•Human-Values Games

•Observation of Nature

•Role-play and drama

•Direct Experience

•Discussion &

•Brainstorming

•Stories

•Songs

•Arts

•Field trips

•Experiments

INTEGRATE HUMAN

VALUES IN ALL RELIGIOUS, TRADITION AND CULTURE ,AND ACTIVITIES

Qualities

•Wetness Purifies

•Flows Blesses

•Binds Cleanses

•Nurtures

• Water helps physical healing ( medicinal grass or herbs) to remove the toxins

•cohesive

•Connects

•Mixes

•Dries

•Expands

•Moves

•Smells and adapts qualities that are inherent in other materials

• Water carries essence of anything it flows through

ACRONYM for water

W- wealth

A- all

T-treasure

E-essential

R- respect

I –important

S- save

L-love

I- invaluable

F-fresh

E-endless

S-Spiritual

I-inside

L-love

E-everyone

N-new

C-creativity

E-Enlightenment

•Bhavya Kumar – age 8 (Bangkok)

“Water gives us life,Water gives home to many animals. Life is impossible without water. That is why we have to save water”.

•Mitti - age 8 (Bangkok)

“We need water. Because we do not have water ,we will die”

•Karthik - age 5

“I love water, because it gives me everything”

•Riya - age 4

"I need water because of bath"

•Rishi - age 5

I need water for drinking

“Water is essential”

•Ashwathi - 11yrs

“Life without water would be impossible. Thank you nature to nature for water”

•Ananta - 9yrs

“How people use water and live with water as life would not be possible without water”

•Sakshi - 7yrs

“People use water. We must value and save water as water is lessening”

•Anushree - 9 + yrs

“Water is unity .Goes up and condenses and comes back to us”

Water for All

•Nature does not discriminate anyone-Selfless

•The binding force of water reminds us of the unity of all things-Interconnectedness

•Water can move if it is touched. The movement of water reminds us of the energy that is in all living things-

•What can we do to show our respect for water?

•To appreciate the value of water we must conserve and preserve it.-Gratitude

• We have to cooperate and work together to save water- Unity

Clay and water are the gifts of Nature. But it is the potter who makes the pots out of them. Hence, gratitude to the parents is a primary obligation.

- Divine Discourse, May 6th, 1987.

Integration of Values

Water has the great spirit of love and caring whose purpose is to provide food for all of the Children of the Creator God on Earth. They are around the entire Earth making them a great spirit. A Great Spirit is a billion beings operating with one heart . Water teaches everyone how to love without discrimination. What Water teaches in North America, they teach in Africa, China, Russia, and everywhere this great spirit dwells around the world.

Principles of nature

UNITY IN DIVERSITY

•To understand the importance of water in creation related to traditions, culture and religious practices

•To understand the significance of drawing out inherent values latent in students with relation to traditions, culture and religious practices

•To draw out a curriculum that can generalize the values from the overall physical and analytical differences in specific cultures/religious practices/traditions related to water.

•To bring out direct teaching methods to draw out values from students so that they can be applied practically in schools, society and the community as a whole.

WATER SUPPORTS LIFE.

WATER IS THE BASIS OF LIFE.

AN AMAZING SCENE IN BURMA

In a moment you will see a unique photograph

•What‘s so special about this?

•This is a picture of a rock formation near a lake in Burma. The photo can only be taken on a specific day once a year when the sun rays touch the rocks at a certain angle.

•Tilt your head to the left and then look at it again ….

Did you notice anything different?
yes or no?

Now I will turn the whole scene vertical

•Water does however feature in Buddhist funerals where water is poured into a bowl placed before the monks and the dead body.

•As it fills and pours over the edge, the monks recite "As the rains fill the rivers and overflow into the ocean, so likewise may what is given here reach the departed."

http://www.africanwater.org/religion

prayer was chanted to see the change in the purity of water. All students chanted a prayer and pH was checked although the colour of the water looked the same.

pH was slightly different compared to the original pH of dirty water

•All societies need water to live

•All countries need water to live

•Boys and Girls need water to live

•Plants need water to live

•Animals need water to live

•WATER DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE –

•WATER GIVES LIFE

•LOVE,SHARE AND CARE FOR WATER

Hinduism & Buddhism

•RELIGION – Religere – Ligion ---------------TO BIND BACK –How to bind back?

•traditio which means "to hand down" or "to hand over

•Culture –

culture denotes the whole product of an individual, group or society of intelligent beings. It includes technology, art, science, as well as moral systems and the characteristic behaviors and habits of the selected intelligent entities.

THE FIRST SIX INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU

(Fish) Life starts in water (600 million-400 million years ago)

(Turtle) The first amphibians emerge (100 million years ago)

(Boar) The first mammals evolve (60 million years ago)

Narasimha (half man-half lion)Half man-half animal appear (30 million years ago)

Vamana (short man)Homo Erectus, Upright, yet short and weaponless (5 million - 2 million years ago)

Parashurama (parashu=axe, Rama=name of God)

Darwin’s theory of Evolution

www.balagokulam.org/kids/stories/dashavatara

Hinduism: A Holy Water Religion

A bath in the temple water is said to be sanctified by the proximity to the whole environment

Hold the glass in the left hand .Take a small quantity of water in the right hand palm .Sprinkle it on the head through right hand fingers, reciting at the same time the mantras.

Purified water is poured over the Kumbha or tower by simultaneously followed by chantings so that the deity is installed

The water in the kalasha symbolises the primordial water from which the entire creation emerged. It is the giver of life to all and has the potential of creating innumerable names and forms, the inert objects and the sentient beings and all that is auspicious in the world from the energy behind the universe. The leaves and coconut represent creation. The thread represents the love that "binds" all in creation. The kalasha is therefore considered auspicious and worshipped. The waters from all the holy rivers, the knowledge of all the Vedas and the blessings of all the deities are invoked in the kalasha and its water is thereafter used for all the rituals, including the abhisheka.

Water

Holy water dispenser in Bali

Bali Hinduism is called the holy water religion. Water in containers is made holy by Brahman priests for use in Balinese religious ceremonies, like temple ceremonies, tooth-filings and weddings.

The priest utters ritual prayers, sprinkles and swallows some. He does this 3 times. After which, the water inside is deemed to be holy water - air tirta - with great religious vitality and validity.

Water used as medium for funeral rites

•Lustral Water (Buddhist "holy-water"): is water which has been poured over a Buddha statue under proper conditions to gain some of the mystical effectiveness of the Buddha's virtues. This water may be used to pour over the hands of a corpse at funerals, the hands of a bridal couple at wedding festivities, to sprinkle' about a newly built house, or sometimes as medication for the ill.

The Ganga is considered as one of the two most sacred river by Hindus, the other being the Sindhu

The largest religious gathering on Earth. Around 70 million Hindus from around the world participated in KumbhMela at one of the Hindu Holy city Prayaga (India).

The largest human gathering ever has been photographed from space by a high resolution imaging satellite.

Over 70 million people are expected to attend a Hindu spiritual event in northern India called the Maha Kumbh Mela. The pilgrims gather at a sacred location on the Ganges River, 15 kilometres from Allahabad, for more than a month of bathing rituals. The activities are intended to wash away their sins and hasten the Hindu people's progress toward nirvana.

The one-metre resolution image was collected by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite, travelling at over 6 kilometres per second, 677 kilometres above the Earth. It shows red-robed bathers at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers.

www.wikapedia.com

SONGKRAN

•Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac. It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck.

http://sunsite.au.ac.th/thailand/special_event/songkran/index.html

The Songkran tradition is recognized as a valuable custom for the Thai community, society and religions. The value for family is to provide the opportunity for family members to gather in order to express their respects to the elders by pouring scented water onto the hands of their parents and grandparents and to present them gifts including making merits to dedicate the result to their ancestors. The elders in return wish the youngsters good luck and prosperity.

http://www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/songkran.html

Traditions

Poems –Buddhism (http://www.isp.msu.edu/studiesonasia/s3_v2_n2/3_2_2Waterfall.pdf)

Look ! The waterfall forms white frothy bubbles clear and clean

The sun’s rays ,the beautiful feathers of a peacock

Parrot, Picture of colorful brochade

Rainbow colors………….

Song- kran originated in Sanskrit as “pass or move forward”,has a astrological definition of Sun movement from one zodiac sign to another.

Thanksgiving, due to the very traditional way of Thai lifestyle. During this special family reunion, the younger will water the elder and elderly to pay respect and gratitude, and will receive blessing in return.

www.geocities.com

A mural of Dusidaram Temple, Bangkok, describes
the scene in which an army of devils are trying
to deter the Lord Buddha from gaining enlightenment but the Goddess of Earth is producing a large amount of water to flood them away.

A lump of sugar or salt placed in water disappears. You can see it no more; but can you say it has been destroyed? Or, do you say it has merged? It is there, the taste declares it; it has lost the form, but is present in its quality.

Water has the ability to take up whatever quality it is associated with.

Human Values

When we follow rightful thoughts ,words and speech the water in our body is pure

When we speak ill or follow wrong conduct the water in our body is also affected. There is a mixture of qualities –the good and the bad.

Stupas

The enlightened mind of Buddha is reflected through the stupas. Symbolically, stupas represent the following five elements:

•Earth - Represented by the square base of the stupa

•Water - Represented by the round dome of the stupa

•Fire - Represented by the cone-shape of the stupa

•Air - Represented by the canopy of the stupa

•Space - Represented by the volume of the stupa

•I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water . . .

•has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.

•It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows

•laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

-Roderick Haig-Brown

Noble Profession

•Why? A teacher teaches the target to the student –Target is the spirit within him/her.

•Glory of the Earth through the Noble Profession

•One Source –Divine source

•One Unity – Humanity

•One Power-Love