Hari OM
Prayer time:
We started the class by chanting OM 3 times followed by morning prayers- "Sahanaavathu" followed by Vakrathunda Mahakaya, Saraswathi Namsthubhyam, Guru Brahma and Buddhir balam.
Yoga time:
We started with learning and practicing some yoga poses. Breathing exercises, neck relaxation and tree pose
Bhagvatham Time:
First, we did the recap of the last class. We discussed briefly where Kali resides. Kali asked King Pariksit to give him some place to live. Thus, Pariksit gave him 5 adharmic places to live: untruthfulness, arrogance/ ignorance, lust, cruelty, Rajoguna (running after wealth).
Today's Story – The Curse
King Pariksit went hunting alone in the forest. After a while he felt thirsty and went looking for water. His search ended up seeing sage Samika's ashram. But the sage was in deep meditation and he was not aware of the king's presence. The King wanted to test the sage so he took a snake and put it around the sage's neck and on seeing this act of the king the sage's son, Sringi got angry and cursed the King that he will be bitten by a poisonous snake, Thakshak and thus he will be killed in 7 days. When the Sage Samika heard this, he was upset with his son. The noble sage didn't even think bad about the king but instead defended the king saying that there is no king as good as King Pariksit. Such is the greatness of the sages of our land.
What did we learn from this story?
Why Pariksit, a nice king, did a bad act of putting the snake around the sage's neck?
It was because the king was not on guard. He was not alert. His hunger, thirst and tiredness made him to do the act. The noble king lost his mind momentarily and could not make right from wrong
One wrong act cannot be set right by another wrong act. We explained it more by giving examples from our day-to-day life like it is not good to shout and people shouting back at you. It is not nice to push someone and in turn someone pushes you back. Same way it is not good to hit someone, and someone hits you back.
Game time/Craft time:
On the Guard game. Continuing the story theme we played Vishnu says to see how alert kids were.
Geetha Chanting time:
We learnt Chp 2 vs 39 and 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3pRQIaPdPE&list=PLwv-WSJSokEORu2iEsVanXQhQHOoiiQIy&index=18
Please make sure kids are practicing at home.
Slokha time:
Guru Stotram -VS 1
We concluded the class with Pledge.
**important announcements** Next week (10/31) is House Inauguration day. Grade 3 is Arjuna's arrows. Please make sure kids are all dressed in color- GREEN. We will have some activities on zoom.
With Love,
Indira & Raji Aunty