Happy Shankranthi to all. Our class this Sunday started with Likitha japa. We then said our morning prayers and learnt the verse 3 and 4 of the Shiva Shadakshara Stotram.
We then learnt verse 15 of Gita Chapter 13. Please help the children learn and practice these using the online tools or the classes at the ashram.
We then continued with the second book in our syllabus. My 24 Preceptors.
Dattatreya gives a list of twenty-four Gurus, regarding himself as a humble student of the whole of creation. He also teaches us the lesson that the higher is one's knowledge, the humbler is that person.
1. Earth: All creatures, in accordance with their previous store of karma (action) assume different physical forms and live on earth. People plough, dig and tread the earth. They light fires on it. Still, the earth does not swerve from its course even by a hair’s breadth. On the other hand, it feeds and houses all creatures. Seeing this, I learned that the wise one should never swerve from his vow of patience, love and righteousness under any circumstances and one should dedicate his life for the welfare of living beings. The earth along with its mountains and rivers is my first guru.
2. Air: I observed that air is pure and odorless in itself. And it blows on both sweet and foul-smelling things without any discrimination or preference. Though it momentarily seems to take on the smell of its surroundings, in a short while, it reveals its pristine quality. From this I learned that a spiritual aspirant should live in the world, unaffected by the dualities of life like joy and sorrow and by the objects of the senses. He should keep his heart’s feeling and his speech unpolluted by vain objects. As I have learned all this by observing it, air is my second guru.
Following the story time we had a short quiz on the Krishna Krishna stories. The class was divided into 2 teams with both team doing equally well.
Just a reminder we don't have class next week.
Pranam
