HARI OM EVERY ONE!
Hope you and your families are safe and sound after the hurricane sandy hit our state. We were all delighted to meet after a long break. We started our class with breathing exercises, chanting Om 3 times and morning prayers. We discussed about hurricane Sandy .. how hurricanes are caused, effects , safety rules, etc. We reviewed last week's home work. Please do remind your children to do their home work. We are giving simple home work which should not take more than 10 mins . As we are learning about Krishna and his virtues, most of the home work will be geared towards the virtues of Krishna like, forgiveness, kindness, sharing etc. So it shouldn't be too hard for kids to do. Doing home work helps kids to remember what was taught so please ask them what was taught in the class and if they have any home work.
We recited Sree Ganapathi stotram. Most of the kids got the hang of reciting the stotram and we are going to continue practicing this in every session. Click here for the text and audio version.
In our story time we moved on to other interesting Krishna Lila's of Aghasura Death --Agha the Python laid in the path of gopas to kill Krishna. Gopas unknowingly walked into his mouth and Krishna made Aghasura choke and die by growing big in his mouth .
We also learnt about Brahmaji's maha Bhanga-- Brahmaji tries to trick Krishna and took all gopas and cows away into a cave. Krishna with his Maya created look - a -likes of Gopas and cows and took them home to Vrindavan. No one including parents of gopas realized this maya. Ashamed Brahmaji apologized to Sri Krishna and released the gopas , cows. We talked about the humility and humbleness of Krishna for not showing off but making Brahmaji realize his mistake. This weeks's home work is to write a sentence about how you or some one you know are humble or showed humility.
We also heard about the tale of silly turtle which lost it's life by trying to show off when his friends "the two cranes" were carrying him to a pond.
We went over the great qualities of Krishna which made darling of all and discussed how we can be nice to others and be every one's darling. This week's home work is to write a sentence about "Why you are loved by others".
The last story of this session was the death of Dhenukasura - the asura in the form of donkey, how Balarama and Krishna killed him when he harmed them when they tried to get tala-fruits. Thus Kansa's evil plans have failed again.
We ended our session with Aarthi and Pledge.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on 18th.
-Grade 4B teachers
