Category Power Hour for Youth

Week 7: Purity of Mind

Notes by Mahathi Yathiraju  Last week review: The 3 Ps: Possess less (want for less – example: gratitude journal) Plan more (be prepared – example: use a planner to plan out your day) Perform right action (example–associate with the wise)…

Week 6: Fearless

Notes by Meghnaa Vasudev The first virtue we are learning about this year is fearlessness. To become fearless we must first understand fear. We discussed what fear causes: insecurity, inability to focus, irrational thinking.  We also anonymously shared our greatest…

Week 5: Values

Notes by Dwija Ramesh Recap: What is the manual that helps us live, survive and thrive? Our scriptures: teaches us how to relate with the world around us teaches us about our nature, Happiness how to realize our nature while…

Week 4: What is Happiness?

Noted by Dwija Ramesh Recap: Happiness is our nature unlike what we decided last week.  Discourse: At a high level, all of our actions are motivated by two things: Sukha prapti  – Seeking happiness Dukha nivritti – Escaping sadness We…

Week 3: Debate

By Dwija Ramesh Recap: Last week, we talked about Dharma and how it means to integrate and uphold This is the essential nature of a thing. Discourse: In today’s class, we had a debate. Each team had 10 minutes to…

Week 2: Dharma

Notes by Dwija Ramesh Recap: 2 weeks ago, we talked about the Bhagavad Gita – a text on one who is wise that has lived life well – so that we can live well. When we discussed this manual of…

Week 1 Notes

September 13th 2021 | Notes by Dwija Ramesh Discourse: We started with an activity where Sumanji showed us a long piece of rock with notches in it and put us into breakout rooms to talk about what the object could…

Week 29: Sacrifice

Notes by Saadhvi Mamidi Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra Great mantra that brings victory over death For us to relate – this is the death of ignorance We chant this to support all those suffering around the world Review of Last Class…

Week 28: Discipline

By Dwija Ramesh Recap: In our class last week, we looked at fearlessness. In oneness, fear is not a possibility and it only comes from duality – the wrong knowledge that we are the body. This limits our potential. Our…