September 29th, 2013, Class Review (Nirmala and Lakshmi Aunty)

Hari Om,
  What a glorious day. Beautiful fall colors bursting from trees. Warm sunshine falling on us while we walked into the school. We appreciate the classroom, and students on all days and definitely this day.

We started the class with 3 loud oms followed by om sahana vavathu. Aunty completed the Sankata Nashna Ganesh strotam today. Please ask the children to sing it for you.Singing this prayer will help destroy all obstacles.

We reviewed the stories from previous week. How Kamsa thought he was killing the eight child of Devaki, but it was actually Maha Mayi. She escapes easily and warns Kamsa that his destroyer is being raised elsewhere.
 Kamsa gets more agitated. His advisers suggest using Pootha a rakshasi to kill all the new born babies in Mathura and Gokul. But the plan fails miserably. Krishna the baby sucks  the poison out of Pootha and kills her, leaving her body with a wonderful aroma of sandalwood and jasmine. Thus we leaned that one of the ways to reach Sri Hari is through forgiveness,. One of the homework for the week is to practice sharing and forgiveness.

We also learned of the Trnavratha the wind demon who comes to Gokul to kill the baby Krishna. The pranks Krishna play on the villagers and how Kubera's sons receive moksha.

We look forward seeing you all next week.
Pranam