BG - 9

Recap

BG 15.14 - last session the focus was on the MIRACLE of the DIGESTION PROCESS - how food is converted into BLOOD. Ask a few questions. The first session in this series was about the COMPLEXITy of Digestion. Second about MIRACLE and today's sessions will focus on WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DIGESTION DOES NOT WORK.

Bhajan

Katha (Duryodhana tries to kill Bhima killswith Bakasura)Poison mixed with Food)

https://iskconeducation.org/media_library_old/Bhima20Slays20Bakasura.docvedabase.io/en/library/mbk/1/4/

Teaching Time

What Children Need to Bring

Each child should bring anyone ONEdecomposed smallpiece foodof itemfood. from home -Please send abelow notemessage to Parents.

Dear Parents,

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We have an exciting hands-on activity coming up this Sunday! Your child will be learning about the concept of Digestion—how Krishna personally digests the food we eat. We would love your help with a simple home preparation.

What to do (choosewith one)your child):

1. On Saturday, cut a banana into slices or an apple into pieces
2. Place the fruit in a zip-lock bag, then put that bag inside another zip-lock bag (to contain any smell)
3. Leave it at room temperature until Sunday
4. Your child should bring this bag to class

A few notes:

• The

  Afruit smallwill bowllook ofand cookedsmell rice

  unappetizing by Sunday—that's the point!
• Children

  Chapatiwill /only bread

  observe, not touch, the decomposed sample
• Please

  Fruit (banana / apple / orange)

• A few pieces of boiled vegetables

• A small cup of cooked dal / khichdi

Dear Parents,

Hare Krishna 🙏

Forlabel the upcomingbags BPSS class, we will be doing a simple, hands-on activity to help children appreciate how wonderfully Krishna takes care of us inside our bodies.

Please sendwith your childchild's with ONE small food item (any one):

• Cooked rice / chapati / fruit / boiled vegetables / cooked dal
  (Just a small bowl is enough.)

  name

This activity is safe, supervised, and symbolic—childrencomparison will nothelp tasteillustrate orhow cookKrishna anything themselves. The focus is on gratitude and understanding Krishna’s role in sustainingdigests our life,food—and aswhat explainedhappens inwhen thehe Bhagavad-gita.withdraws.

Thank you for your cooperationsupport in making thislearning acome meaningful experience for the children.alive!

Warm regards,
 BPSS Teaching Team

Opening Hook

Children bring their bagged fruit. Build anticipation:

"Everyone has a special science experiment today. On the count of three, open your bags just a little and take a small sniff..."

WhatReactions will be immediate! Let them express their disgust freely — this is the Teacherhook shouldsetting Arrangeitself.

ActivityKey & Demo Setupquestions:

• "What

  Foodhappened processorto /the mixerfruit? (teacher-handledIs only)

  it yummy anymore?"
• "Could

  Oneyou sealedeat vialthis? labeledWhat clearly:
  “ONEwould DROPhappen OFif BLOOD”you did?" (symbolicTummy –ache, coloredsick, water - dark red)

• Disposable bowls / plates

• Napkins / wipes

• Table covering (to manage spills)

  poison)
  

TheSimple Challengestoryline:

Make teams and tell them the challenge.

Say clearly:

“Take"Inside someyour tummy, there's a special fire — not a burning fire, but a cooking fire. And guess who that fire is? Krishna Himself!"

"When you eat your breakfast, Krishna is right there inside you, cooking your food and turning it into energy so you can run, play, think, and grow."

"But the fruit in the bag? Krishna wasn't inside the bag cooking it. So instead of thebecoming foodenergy... itemsit frombecame the table and using the Blender Produce just ONE DROP OF BLOOD.”yucky!"

LetTeach teamsthe come forward.phrase:

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Let"Aham Vaiśvānaro" — "I am the digesting fire"

Have them try:repeat it with you 2-3 times. Explain: "This is Krishna saying 'I am the fire in your tummy!'"

Gratitude

• connection:

  Crushing"So every time you eat, who should we thank? Not just for giving us food, but for cooking it inside us too!"

  Medical Angle (when digestion stops then what?)

  Step 1: Connect bag to body

  "This fruit rotted in the Blenderbag. -Now letimagine themif actuallythis dohappened it (teacher should operate the blender)

• Mixing
  

Then stop.

Ask directly:

• “Did we succeed?”

• “Why not?”

Let them answer:

• “We don’t know how”

• “We need a lab”

• “It’s complicated”

Do not correct them yet.

The Turning Point

Hold the vial and say:

“Every dayINSIDE your bodytummy. isWhat makingwould new blood. Yesterday you ate breakfast, lunch and dinner. And your body took all that and converted into blood.

Pause.

Then ask:

“Who is doing what we cannot?”

Silence.

Now introduce Bhagavad-gita 15.14 (either chant or paraphrase):

“Krishna says:
‘I become the fire of digestion and digest the food.’”

Then ask the key question:

“Why does Krishna take personal ownership of digestion?”happen?"

Let them think.guess. They'll say "sick" or "tummy ache."

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Step 2: Escalate with real examples

Krishna"Has anyone ever eaten something bad and had to vomit? Or had a really bad tummy ache?"

(Some kids will share experiences — food poisoning, stomach bugs, etc.)

"That's your body trying to push out something it couldn't digest properly. Your body is notsaying claimingDANGER! credit.GET HeIT is revealing dependence.OUT!"

PARTStep 23: —Go THE INTELLIGENCE QUESTION

Principle 2: Digestion Is Intelligent (Guidance)

Now you dismantleto the “it’s just chemistry” idea.

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The Killer Question (Ask exactly like this)hospital

“If"Sometimes digestionit's wereso onlybad chemical,that whyyou doesn’thave itto digestgo to the hospital. Doctors give you medicine through a needle in your arm. Sometimes they have to wash out your stomach itself?”with a tube."

Do(Can show a simple image of a child in hospital with IV if appropriate, or just describe)

Step 4: The most serious cases

"And in some very serious cases... when the poison spreads too much... people can die. Even from just eating bad food."

(Let this land. Pause.)

Step 5: Flip to gratitude

"But most of the time, this DOESN'T happen to us. Why? Because every time you eat, someone is working inside you to cook that food properly, to turn it into strength instead of poison.

Who is that person?"

→ KRISHNA

"Every single meal. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, every snack. Krishna is there, making sure food doesn't become poison inside you. He's not rush.taking Leta holiday. He's not sleeping. He's always working.

Aham Vaiśvānaraḥ — I am the roomfire sitof digestion."

Optional: Real Numbers to Share

If you want to add weight:

"Every year, around the world, about 4 lakh (400,000) people die just from eating bad food. Many of them are children."

This makes it concrete — death is not abstract, it's a real protection Krishna offers daily.

For Seniors

The Stark Reality: Digestion Cannot Be Replaced

What Machines CAN Replace

Organ	Machine Replacement	Can You Survive?
Kidneys	Dialysis machine	Yes — people live years on dialysis
Heart	Artificial heart / pacemaker	Yes — temporary or long-term
Lungs	Ventilator / ECMO	Yes — for weeks or months
Blood	Transfusions	Yes — regularly done
Digestive System	Nothing	No replacement exists

Key point for kids:

"Doctors have made machines for almost everything. Can't breathe? Machine. Heart not pumping? Machine. Kidneys not cleaning blood? Machine.

But if your digestion stops? There is NO machine. No scientist, no doctor, no hospital in silence.the whole world can digest food for you. Only Krishna can do this."

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AskWhat follow-ups:Happens When Digestion Fails — Medical Facts

Intestinal Failure / Short Bowel Syndrome:

• If

  “Isyour stomachintestines acidstop weak?”working →or No

  are removed, you cannot absorb nutrition from food
• Only

  “Isoption: TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition) — liquid nutrition directly into bloodstream through IV

• This is NOT digestion — it selective?”bypasses →the Yes
  gut entirely
• TPN

  “Canis acidnot decide?”a →long-term No

  solution:
  • Causes liver failure over time (50% of long-term TPN patients develop liver disease)
  • High risk of blood infections (sepsis)
  • Blood clots, bone loss, kidney damage
  • Most patients eventually need intestinal transplant or die

ThenIntestinal say:Transplant:

• One of the rarest and most dangerous transplants
• Only about 200 done per year worldwide
• Survival rate: Only 50-60% survive 5 years
• Requires lifelong immunosuppression drugs
• Body often rejects the new intestine

The bottom line:

“Chemicals"If cannotKrishna's decide.fire Machinesswitches cannotoff decide.inside you, doctors can try to keep you alive by putting food directly into your blood through tubes. But your liver starts failing within a few years. Your body gets infection after infection. Even with the best doctors and millions of rupees, most people don't survive long.

DecisionThere requiresis intelligence.”no Option B for digestion."

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The

Statistics Core Realization

Say slowly:

“Digestion decides:

• what becomes blood

• what becomes waste

• what is stored

• what is rejected

• when to stop digestion

And you are not consulted.”

Then ask:

“So who is controlling this?”

Let someone say “God” or “Krishna”.

Then say:

“Krishna doesn’t deny it. He says: ‘That isHit Me.’”

Craft for JuniorsHome

TeacherFood arrangesPoisoning Deaths (class-level)Digestion Rejected the Food):

• 4,20,000

  Pre-cutdeaths paperper stripsyear globally from foodborne illness (A4 cut into 3 vertical panels)

  WHO)
• 1,25,000

  Crayonsof /these sketch pens (askare children tounder bring)

  5 — their digestion is weaker
• In

  StickersIndia (optional)

  alone: estimated 1.5 lakh deaths annually from contaminated food

ChildrenIntestinal bring:Failure: Nothing extra.

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Teacher Instructions

Say:

“You couldn’t make blood today. But Krishna makes it every day. Let’s show that with our craft.”

Guide them to:

• Without

  Drawintervention: fooddeath inwithin panelweeks 1

  from starvation/dehydration
• With

  DrawTPN: a40-50% reddie dropwithin /5 heartyears infrom panel 2

  complications
• Intestinal

  Drawtransplant themselveswaiting smilinglist: inmany paneldie 3

  waiting, organs rarely available

ThenStomach/Digestive help them write:

“Krishna is working inside me.”

Extra Points for Seniors

THE DEBATEShutdown (COREGastroparesis, ADDITION)

Ileus,

This is where seniors engage intellectuallyObstruction):, not emotionally.

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Frame the Debate, Divide the group into two sides:

Side A – Mechanism

“Digestion is automatic, chemical, and self-sufficient.”

Side B – Guidance

“Digestion requires intelligence and regulation.”

Clarify:

• Complete

  Thisintestinal isblockage: death within days if not asurgically faith debate

  corrected
• Even

  Useafter surgery: reason,15-20% logic,mortality experiencerate

  for emergency bowel surgery
• Sepsis

  Nofrom quotinggut scripturesbacteria yet

  entering bloodstream: 30-50% mortality rate

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DebateSimple PromptsComparisons (teacherfor asks one by one)Children

Prompt

The 13-3-3 (Blood)

Survival Rule:

“If"You can survive:

• 3 weeks without food
• 3 days without water
• 3 minutes without air

But if your digestion isstops automatic,
whyworking? canEven weif you eat, the food becomes poison inside you. You might not produce even onesurvive drop3 of blood?”days."

LetMoney bothCannot sidesBuy answer.

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Prompt 2 (Selectivity)

“Why does digestion choose nutrients and reject waste?”

Follow-up:Digestion:

“Can"The chemistryrichest choose?”person in the world — with 10 lakh crore rupees — cannot buy a machine to digest food. Ambani, Elon Musk, the President of America... if their digestion stops, they will also have to pray to Krishna. There is no shop, no hospital, no country where you can buy digestion.

Only Krishna gives this. Free. Every day. To everyone — rich or poor, good or bad."

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Prompt

The 3Fire (Self-protectionThat —Never theBills killer)

You

This could be a powerful reflection:

“Why"If doesn’tKrishna thesent stomachyou digesta itself?”bill for digestion...

'Breakfast digested — ₹500' 'Lunch digested — ₹500' 'Dinner digested — ₹500' 'Snacks — ₹200'

That's ₹1700 per day. ₹50,000 per month. ₹6 lakh per year.

From birth to now — 6 or 7 years — Krishna has done maybe ₹40 lakh worth of work inside your tummy. And He has never asked for payment.

He only asks that we remember Him. That we say thank you."

Let them struggle. Don’t rescue them.

Prompt 4 (Timing)

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“WhySummary does digestion stop when the body is full?”

Ask: “Who says ‘enough’?”

Final Reflection

Ask them individually to answer:Points

1. No

   “Whatmachine partexists ofthat can digest food — dialysis for kidneys, ventilators for lungs, but NOTHING for digestion surprised you today?”

2. “What assumption did this challenge?”

3. “Does Krishna now feel distant or closer?”

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CLOSING LINE (Memorable)

End with this:

“If Krishna is this careful with your digestion, HeTPN is not carelessdigestion with— it's emergency bypass that destroys your life.”liver over time

Intestinal transplant

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Silence.

extremely rare, extremely dangerous, most don't survive long

4+ lakh people die every year from food-related illness — when digestion fails or is overwhelmed

The richest humans on earth cannot buy what Krishna gives free to the poorest child

Krishna's service is 24/7, free, flawless — and we rarely even say thank you