Hope all are excited for the upcoming winter break with our last class this coming week on Dec 19th. Today's class we went with round robin for our Guru Stotram. Everyone had to recite one stanza of the Stotram and It was such a pleasure to see kids singing with the right pronunciation as well as tune but the best which was beyond both, was, they sang with so much of love and bhakti in their hearts. Please encourage them to practice during winter break as they could easily memorize this and get all geared up when classes resume in January.
We recapped last week's topic on Ahimsa and Saatya while discussing any pending questions they have had after they contemplated on the topic. In our class we not only introduce these Hinduism ideologies but also encourage the kids to Introspect and contemplate on how they want to apply these in their lives. Our Chinmaya mission statement is "To help children learn values with fun, to delight like the moon and shine like the sun" and we do everything to imprint these values and bring the best in them.
This class we also did a new topic on "Dana" or Charity and with several stories and examples spoke about the types of dana, who is the benefactor, the giver and how does karma interplay in Dana. Slowly one by one some of these isolated topics are now getting interlinked into a full executable action.
The last 20 mins we used to prepare them for next weeks presentation. We've dissected the reposnsibilities and assigned each of them a topic which they will need to talk about for 2 mins with an example. Looking forward to see their enthusiasm and creativity. We will be having a short class next week which will be our last class for this year.
There will be no blog for next week and we sincerely Thank you for your continued support as we tread on this Spiritual journey reiventing ourselves. Inspired by Swami Tejomayanandaji's words "Unto Him, Our Best" wishing each and everyone happy holidays and New Year.