HariOm EveryOne!
We started our class with breathing exercises and chanting Om 3 times. We
did our morning prayers, Gurustotram and Sree Ganapati Stotram. we practiced Geeta
chanting first 3 verses of chapter 14 and learnt the 4th verse. It was amazing to see how kids were all excited to start chanting. Several kids volunteered to recite in solo. We are going to take turn for solo recital in our next class.
We revised what was taught in our previous session 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 SriKrishna 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 someone 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 next 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.
In our story time we
moved on to the most interesting Krishna Lila's of Kaliya
Mardhanam- The poisonous serpent Kaliya lived in lake Madu and
contaminated the whole lake. All the birds and other living things in that area
died because of the poisonous fumes in that area. Some gopasunknowingly
went to that lake and died. Krishna jumped into the lake .. all the gopas
worried and called NandBaba and Yashoda. Krishna grew large and jumped on top
of the egoistic Kaliya and danced merrily. Exhausted Kaliya and his wives
prayed Krishna to pardon their mistakes. Forgiving Krishna asked them to leave
that place and move to an island far away.
We discussed about Kaliya
-- how everyone has a taint of Kaliya in them .. difference
between consciousness and egoism .. how we all can fight the Kaliya
in ourselves by being good and helpful to others.
See you all in our next Balvihar class on Nov 10th.
