 Namaste, welcome to the fifth session of our course, Yoga and Positive Psychology for Managing Career and Life. We started our discussion in the last session about looking at yoga and the yogic tradition from the lens of positive psychology. So, we will continue this discussion. A quick recap of the last session is that we started our conversation on the different aspects of the positivity and human potential in yogic traditions. So, we talked about holistic life goals, diverse pathways, positive behavior, positive characteristics in the last session where we discussed the positive strengths described in the yogic tradition in the form of Daivi Sampada. In today's session we are going to look at positive events and positive institutions. So, in the last session we use this slide while describing the positive behavior and in this slide you see a figure of a human body with the 100 hats of snake, 100 hoods. In our tradition it is called Sheshanal. In this tradition it is believed that Nag or snakes are the highly receptive animals or organism in the nature and Patanjali is supposed to have the sensibility and sensitivity and ability to perceive things and intercept things which is equivalent to 100 snakes. So, that is why his head is represented with the Sheshanal. Coming back to our discussion in the today's session that is about positive events. We describe two things as positive events mentioned in the yogic tradition. Two of these events are Sanskar and Yajna. Sanskar many of you must have heard about 16 Sanskars, different rituals, different processes being followed at different stages of human life. By definition Sanskar is understood as Atma-Shari-Ranya-Tarinishta-Atishaya-Vesheshya-Sanskara. A special virtue or quality that is connected with body or mind is called Sanskar. So, if we look at the different Sanskars, different Sanskars are related to different stages of life. So, Garbhadhan Sanskar is conducted before the conception of a life. Upanayan Sanskar is conducted in the beginning of education and making the person aware of him or her being the responsible member of the society and family. So, like these different Sanskars are offered at different stages of life cycle and these Sanskars have very deep psychological and social meaning along with the spiritual sense. So, we are going to discuss these as positive events. So, another very important or rather you can say Parvezho category of positive events is in the yogic tradition called Yajna. Yajna is derived from the root word Yajna. That means Dev Pooja Sangh Gati Karan Daneshu or that means it is it includes worship of deities, unity or charity. So, all these aspects are covered in different types of Yajnas. Let us look at Sanskar in little more detail. This is also an overview. We are going to have a complete session on the Sanskar where we will look at the positive psychology and the yogic insights about the managing different stages of human life. So, we are going to have more detailed discussion. This session is just to give the overview of the Sanskar positive events Yajna as positive event and then positive institutions as family or education systems or positive governance. So, this classification of the 16 Sanskar is given by Gautama and that is most popular. However, there are some texts which describe much larger number of Sanskars as well. For example, once one text, traditional text describes 42 Sanskars. Another text describes 30 Sanskars. You can know more about it on the website where all these notes are uploaded called dharmaviki.org. So, in these Sanskars, the prenatal Sanskars are there. There are some Sanskars conducted at the time of childhood. Then there is a group of Sanskar which are related to education. Then a very important Sanskar called marriage or Viva Sanskar that is conducted when person completes the education and enters into the life of householder and then the last Sanskar is called that Antesh T Sanskar. Garbhadhan Sanskar is conducted at the time of conception. Even before the conception, it is conducted for the Varavadu or conducted for the couple who are going to conceive a child. There is another Sanskar which is conducted in the third to sixth month of pregnancy that is called Pumsavan Sanskar. Then the Srimantvayan Sanskar is conducted before the birth of the child. At the time of the birth, Jatkarma is conducted. After some time, Namakaran is conducted where name is given to the child. Nishkraman is the occasion of taking child out under the sun and that is generally conducted after three or four months of the birth. Anaprasana is generally done in the sixth month of the birth of the child where first feeding is offered. Churakaran Sanskar is about shaving of head that is a most important ritual. There are quite a few other things which go along with the main ritual. Piercing of ear lobes is another Sanskar, Karanaveet Sanskar it is called and that is related to now it is connected to the health benefits as well as the social benefits that a whole connection is described in a book the reference of which will come in the later slide. Then there are some educational Sanskars. So, these educational Sanskars are about Vidyaram that is the beginning of the learning process. Upanayan that is sacred threat ceremony that is the most prominent ritual of that Sanskar and Upanayan is related to that stage of life of the learner of a child who is entering in the home of the teacher which used to be called Gurukul. Vidyaram Sanskar is beginning of the Vedic study. Kesant Sanskar is done in the during the education period. Samavarthan Sanskar is conducted at the end of education. So, it is like a convocation and all these mantras are given and in these mantras we come to know what is the worldview being prescribed in these in this process of Sanskar. We also come to know that what is the how the expectation from the child is conveyed through different rituals and different recitations. Viva is marriage that is Viva Sanskar and last one is Anteshti Sanskar. So, if you see yogic tradition follows all these Sanskars and through these Sanskars they aim to manage the life. Through these processes it is aimed to make a person a responsible member of the family, society, community and country.