Hari Om, greetings and Namaste.
This is the summary of the session on Nov. 19.
This year's curriculum consists of two cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam
- Canto 10 deals with the birth and childhood happenings of Lord Krishna - Sree Krishna Leelas
- 11th Canto also known as Avadhoota Gita is a dialog between Sage Dattatreya and a king Yadu as retold by lord Krishna to his favourite disciple Uddhava, just before lord Krishna's end of his avatar.
- Krishnashtakam https://youtu.be/-OqY_ZbIT-k
- Shree Govinda Damodara stotram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--3BXJuMVQ0
- Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 - Sankhya yoga verses 39-72 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwv-WSJSokEORu2iEsVanXQhQHOoiiQIy
The routine of the Balavihar session is
- Likitha Japa
- Invocation of Santi mantra
- Daily Prayers
- Krishnashtakam
While Gokul was overflowing with joy and celebrations, back in Mathura. Kamsa was terrified at the news of his angel of death out there somewhere surviving. The palace was filled with gloom and Kamsa was pacing down the corridors of the palace nervous and was waiting for all his misters to show up whom he convened earlier for their counsel. Once all the misters were convened and seated - Kamsa sought everyone's ideas on how to deal with the problem of the baby growing somewhere unknown.
Each minister gave a more cruel and sinister ways to get rid of the baby. than the other. Not one proposed the real solution for Kamasa to stop his adharmic ways of living. Such is the impact of company one has. One has to be careful in asking counsel, and seek it only from learned and righteous people, who can tell the truth the way it is and lead us to right path, even though it may seem difficult to tread on.
After having listened to all the ministers, Kamsa like the idea of killing all newborn in the last few days and sent a word out for Putuna to get her help in accomplishing the evil deed. Putana was a very treacherous demon and had the capability to transform herself into any outfit or person. Hearing upon Kamsa's request - she set out to accomplishing the master's task. She transformed herself into a beautiful, attractive lady and reached Gokul. She was puzzled to see the whole town decorated and people teeming with joy and happiness. As she walked past the streets, she overheard the villagers talking about the beautiful baby boy to Nanda and Yashoda and how wonderful his smile was and how twinkling his eyes were. She followed them and saw a number of villagers walking briskly towards Nanda's house. She joined the folks and entered Nanda's house. The whole house was full of people and Nanda and Yashoda were busy greeting visitors. Everybody would come cuddle the baby boy and move on. When Putuna entered the house, everybody was wonder stuck and the elegance, beauty and charm of her. None of the villagers saw such a beautiful lady in those parts in a long time. Punta greeted everybody and slowly made her way to the cradle where Krishna was. Putana, in the pretense of cuddling the baby, took him into his arms and while everybody was busy, took the baby to the back yard. Her plan was to make the baby suckle here breasts which were laced with poison. As per her plan, she cajoled Krishna into sucking here breasts, but Lord Krishna who is antaryami - knower of all things, knew the evil intentions of Putana and he sucked the breasts so hard that he took her life breath away. As soon as the life was gone, Putana regained her hideous form and fell to the ground with a great thud. All the folks in Nanda's household were bewildered and ran towards the great sound, maa Yashoda was concerned about the baby and ran towards the cradel and became hysterical after not finding him there and also ran outside to look for her darling baby. People saw hideous monster lying on the bround life less and on the top was little Krishna all smiles as if nothing happened. Upon seeing the baby, Yashoda took him into the arms, cuddled and smooched him and performed ritual of warding of evils. All the villegers were shocked at the turn of events and thanked divine grace for saving the village and the baby.
Days were rolling by, Kamsa heard the news of Putana's death and continued with his quest to kill the Lord! He summoned another demon Trinavarta - the hurricane demon, who could raise dust storms, hurricanes and create havoc and destroy communities at the drop of a hat. Kamsa ordered Trinavarta to kill his mortal enemy. The demon, as with many of us underestimated the strength of the opposition and joked as to what his services are required to killl an infant. Kamsa recounted how the baby killed Putana and advised him not to take the task lightly. Trinavarta was not convinced but undertook the task in order to please Kamsa. Trinavarta's plan was simple - create a hurricane, lift the baby boy so high up in the sky and then suddenly throw him to the ground, smashing the baby to death, but the lord had other plans 😀😀
One day maa Yashoda took Krishna into her lap and was sitting in the verandah. suddenly she realized as the baby growing heavier and heavier. She could not hold him anymore, so she put him down and ran into the yard, to tie things up as see saw great big black clouds forming and winds howling. The lord knew, these were no ordinary winds or clouds - it was the demon. The winds gained more speed and clouds became thicker and dark. All the villager, the cattle scared at the oncoming howling winds, dust started running helter-skelter. Maa Yashoda, rushed back to the house to get herself and Krishna to safety - only to find him missing. She ran back into the yard searching for him, Nanda also joined her. With all the howling, things flying and dust in the air, it was difficult to see, yet they continued. Suddenly thier gaze fell upon the tip of the hurricane - what they saw frigtened them. Krishna was on the tip of the hurricane and was becoming heavier and heavier every second, Trianvarta was finding it difficult to hold him anymore and was unable to smash him to the ground as planned. Instead, Krishna held the throat of the demon with both his hands and squeezed the so hard that the demon could not breathe anymore and choked to death and fell to the ground far far away from the village in the woods. With the demon's death all winds stopped, and clouds cleared. Villagers rushed towards where Trianvarta fell to see if baby Krishna was all right. To their amusement, the lord was on top of the huge demon's body playing as if nothing happened. Seeing him all safe Nanda and Yashoda were happy and took the baby back home! With this it was time for Bhagavad-Gita (Verses 45 & 46), aarati and pledge.
Until we meet next
Shivram & Meena
(sevaks)
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