Class Review (Section 1), October 14th 2012

Hari Om,
    Today was a glorious October day. Blessed are we to enjoy the day with your children. Once everyone got settled in we started the class with 3 loud oms, sahana vavathu. We then practiced the Sankashtnashna Ganesh sthothra.

We learned 2 more paras of the Achutham Kesavam. Please ask your child to sing it for you. The lilting melody had me singing the whole of last week. It is a beautiful song and we wish we could bring you in to class to hear the children sing it.

We started the first 2 verses of the geeta chapter 13
 http://www.geetachanting.net/bvg13v01-10/ . It contains an excellent online learning tool, newly developed to make it easier to learn the right pronunciations of the verses. Do check it out and start your weekly practice right away.

Our Krishna Lila retelling continued and we covered the move from Gokulam to Vrindavan. The tatasura (calf), bakasura (crane), aghasura (snake) were destroyed by the child Krishna. Brahma ji tests Krishna by kidnapping the gopas and calf and hiding them in a cave. But Krishna succeeds in fooling Brahma ji.
Krishna multiplies himself and makes copies of boys and calves that looked exactly like the originals, and he then returned to the village with them. No one could tell the difference, but families showed increased spontaneous affection to their sons.
When Brahma ji returned he was shocked to see the boys and calves playing with Krishna, as though nothing had happened. Krishna knew Brahma was perplexed so He transformed all the boys and calves into four-armed Vishnu forms. Brahma heard music and saw many Brahmas, Shivas, demigods and jivas (souls) singing God's names and dancing. Brahma's mind opened at first to the vision, but then he became bewildered, so Krishna ended the dazzling scene. Brahma immediately got down from his swan-carrier and fell prostate at Krishna's feet to beg forgiveness.