How to develop the Vijnanamaya Kosha in Kids?

If you ever had a gut feeling about something and it turned out to be right or you came across a situation where you heard your inner voice and everything sorted out, it’s your Vijnanamaya Kosha that is coming to your rescue. It is that layer of human form that shapes your intelligence, wisdom, and decision-making abilities.

And while Annamaya Kosha is embracing your body, and Manomaya Kosha is embracing your mind and feelings, it is Vijnanamaya Kosha that shows you how to distinguish between good and evil and to help you make good choices.

That is, Vijnanamaya Kosha is your inner guidance, the thought, the good sense, part of you that enables you to perceive things on a higher plane.

Children need to have Vijnanamaya Kosha at their early start to build problem-solving ability, logical thinking, and self-consciousness. The earlier the better they do so, the healthier their life choices will turn out.

So let us go ahead then and discover what Vijnanamaya Kosha is all about, why it is important, and how Mittsure's NCF inspired Jaadui Pitara can help children acquire this layer of wisdom in a fun and engaging way.

What is Vijnanamaya Kosha?

Let us briefly look into the five koshas (states of being) to better understand Vijnanamaya Kosha:

• Annamaya Kosha – The gross physical body, made of food.
• Pranamaya Kosha – The energy body, sustained by breath.
• Manomaya Kosha – The mental body, in charge of thoughts and emotions.
• Vijnanamaya Kosha – The wisdom body, where logic, decision making power, and the right perception of the self gets shaped.
• Anandamaya Kosha – The bliss body, that helps in building inner peace bliss.

Why is Vijnanamaya Kosha Important?

The world today is so varied, children are being bombarded with a choice set, be it selecting proper friends, managing school stress, or understanding how to say "no" to bad influences.

An effective Vijnanamaya Kosha assists children to:

• Critical thinking – They are effective askers, sort facts, and make good decisions.
• Problem-solving – They don't lose but instead find alternatives and remain cool.
• Adopt values – The children begin to get a better sense about right or wrong, and it forms good moral values.
• Obey the voice of their conscience – They heed the voice within their heart and become competent confident individuals.

For a child, to have a strong Vijnanamaya Kosha is to have an inner compass that will lead them to act rightly at school, among friends, and in life.

How does the Vijnanamaya Kosha weaken?

Just as the muscles weaken if unused, our wisdom body can become stagnant if starved. Some of the causes for Vijnanamaya Kosha weakening are as follows:

• Lack of inquiry – In the absence of inquiry, problem-solving capacity weakens.
• Addiction to devices – Excessive screen usage weakens problem-solving capacity in the mind.
• Repetition but not understanding – Killing inner thinking potential.
• Fear of failure – If children are censored for trying to learn, they lose faith.

Weak Vijnanamaya Kosha may lead to:

• Wrong decisions.

• Zero problem-solving potential.

• No conscience.

How to feed Vijnanamaya Kosha?

Cultivating Curiosity

Curiosity is wisdom. The more they ask questions, the sharper they get.

• "How?" and "What?" questions – Encourage children to keep wondering about the world.
• Hands-on experimentation – Simple experiments with science or do-it-yourself crafts promote curiosity.
• Problem-solving games – Puzzles, riddles, and thinking games lead children to critical thinking.

By letting children find out for themselves, they learn through experience and not through books.

Cause and Effect Teaching

Cause and effect help children become better decision-makers.

• Stories/learning – Something about a character who faces a problem and learns something from life.
• Group discussion –  "What would you do?" before taking a decision makes the child think of so many situations.
• Role-play games –  Act out different situations and gain social and emotional intelligence.

Learning through outcome is preferable to allowing the child to decide by trying out a myriad of mistakes that he will finally learn correct.

Encourage Self-Dependence

Giving children few choices gives them confidence and wisdom.

• Give children easy choices – Ask them to dress themselves, assist with meal preparation, or organize the school backpack.
• Encourage solution-finding – Instead of figuring it out for them, try asking them, "What would you do?"
• Emphasize errors – Knowing that making errors is learning, children acquire knowledge well.

With every independent choice that they make, their Vijnanamaya Kosha grows stronger.

Why Vijnanamaya Kosha is Extremely Important in Developing Children?

How the child will reason, make choices, and know the outcome will determine what their future looks like.

A healthy child with ample Vijnanamaya Kosha will be self-confident in problem-solving, trust themselves, and walk the path of independent thinking.

An ill child with lack of Vijnanamaya Kosha is unable to make decisions, will become puzzled, or will be reliant on others.

This development of the layer of wisdom makes it possible for children to be independent thinkers, decision-makers, and effective leaders.

Mittsure's Jaadui Pitara: Developing Wisdom in an Interactive Way

Our Jaadui Pitara is an NCF inspired series of learning products that makes learning an active process of engagement, reflection, and passion. Rather than memorizing facts, children engage in experiential learning activities to develop thinking capabilities.

Mittsure’s NCF inspired Jaadui Pitara contains activities that facilitate critical thinking, creativity, and decision-making. The child is not learning passively but is being open to think, ask, and learn, a healthy Vijnanamaya Kosha established through play. It is where they learn and become clever, smart, and brave.

Vijnanamaya Kosha is the inner wisdom that guides us in making our choices, seeing, and doing. Trained in this sphere of knowledge, we allow children to grow up with wise judgment, self-awareness, and trust in wise decision-making.

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