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Hindu Spiritual Tools for Youth
Jul 27, 2011 Children & Youth

Hindu Spiritual Tools for Youth

The core of our study over the last week has been to find ways to incorporate Hindu spiritual tools into our daily lives to help solve the challenges that we face. We did this by having the youth share problems and then suggest solutions based on spiritual tools that they have learned. And sometimes we enacted out these problems and solutions in skits which were highly entertaining. ...

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