On rough paper – write your answers to these questions

Don’t put your name on the piece of paper!

•Describe the change•Explain what was good about the change•Explain what was bad about the change•Explain how the change affected you

Think about a recent change in your Think about a recent change in your life (big or small)life (big or small)

• Think

•Pair

• Share

Is it easier to live if you accept that Is it easier to live if you accept that your life is always changing?your life is always changing?

To answer the question, we will need to enquire into Hindu beliefs

What is Samsara and is it a useful way to understand life?

Today’s learning question

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Look at the Hindu sacred text• Each table has a different explanation of Samsara

• Discuss the explanation given. • What are your ideas about Samsara so far?• Write your thoughts on the sugar paper around the sheet.

• Move to the next table and repeat to develop your ideas on what Samsara might be.

• Read what other groups have written – what can you add?

Key word: Samsara

Atman = soul

Hindus believe that everyone has a soul (atman) that survives the death of the body and returns to live again in a new

body.

Life is constantly changing. Every living creature is born, lives, dies, and is reborn.

Hindus believe in reincarnation.

This cycle of life, death and rebirth is called samsara.

BirthDeath

BirthDeath

Samsara – quick check!

• Close your book! • Pair up and label each other A and B.

• Person A: Can you explain what samsara is to the person next to you?

• Person B: Did they explain samsara correctly?

Samsara: The cycle of life, death and rebirth. A Hindu belief.

Time to write…

Is the idea of samsara useful?

Discuss this question in your pairs and then write your responses individually.

•It is useful because…

•On the other hand, it is not useful because…

Answer the key question in 10 words exactly!

What is Samsara and is it a useful way to understand life?

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What is Samsara?

‘The quality of the soul decides its future body. Its thoughts and

actions can lead it to freedom, or lead it to bondage in life after life’.

A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts)

Read the text.Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what

it might tell us about

samsara.Write your

ideas on the sugar paper.

What is Samsara?

‘The soul is born and unfolds in a body, with dreams and desires…

and then it is reborn in a new body, according to its former

works’.

A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts)

Read the text.Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what

it might tell us about

samsara.Write your

ideas on the sugar paper.

What is Samsara?

‘When a man knows God, the God of love, then he leaves

behind his bodies of transmigration’

A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts)

Read the text.Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what

it might tell us about

samsara.Write your

ideas on the sugar paper.

What is Samsara?

Look at the painting.

Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what it might tell

us about samsara.

Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

What is Samsara?

Look at the painting.

Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what it might tell

us about samsara.

Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

What is Samsara?

‘Just as a man discards old clothes and buys new ones the atman discards worn out bodies and

enters new ones’.

Verse from the Bhagavad-Gita (Hindu Sacred Text)

Read the text.Discuss what the meaning

could be.Discuss what

it might tell us about

samsara.Write your

ideas on the sugar paper.