20 March class

Hari OM

Discussed about our Samskrithi play

Learned about "OM" and Hanuman from the assigned book

Chanted this Guru prayer

Chinmayam Vyapi Yat Sarvam Trailokyam Sa Characharam

Tat Padam Darshitam Yena Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah -

Salutations to that teacher who showed me (by teaching) the One to be known, who is but Awareness and who is the pervader of all three worlds comprising the sentient and insentient. 

MARCH 13 class

Story selected for Balvihar Annual day (Samskrithi)

Beware of the hunter

You can read the story from the link below - It is in Pages 113-116

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8175970375

What we did in class today:

Prayers / Bhajans

Holi -- Holi coloring page

Discussed about Siva , Parvathi - Durga, Meenakshi , Kamakshi and Kali  devi

Discussed more about the play. Kids were happy with their roles.

See you in the next class. Shubha and Me sent emails to parents about the roles of their kids

MARCH 6th class

Hari Om

We did our prayers and then had a quiz on what we learned in our previous classes

Lyrics transliterated in English	Meanings of the words
Oṁ Saha nāvavatu	Om=supreme god; saha=together; nau=both/ all; avatu=may he protect
saha nau bhunaktu	saha=together; nau=both/ all;bhunaktu= be nourished/ energized
Saha vīryam karavāvahai	saha=together;vīryam=energy; karavāvahai=work (kara=hand; avahai=bring into use)
Tejasvi nāvadhītamastu	tejaswi = having great energy;nau = both ; adhi = intellect/ study; tama = higher degree; astu=so be it
Mā vidviṣāvahai	Mā=not be; vidvis=animosity; avahai=bring/ have
Oṁ Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ	shantih= peace

 

 

Saraswathi Namasthubyam Varadhe kaama Roopini
Vidhyarambham karishyaami Siddhir bhavathu me sadha

 We discussed about the play that our class will be performing at Samskruthi Annual day event.

 We discussed about Siva , Parvathi and Sivarathri . Kids coloured Siva& Parvathi colouring sheets.

This is our closing prayer. Please help kids practice the prayers

Lyrics in Sanskrit	Lyrics in English
ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते |	Om poornamadah poornamidam poornaat poornamudachyate (Om poornam-adah poornam-idah poorna-aat poornam-udachyate)
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ||	Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaavashishṣyate (Om poorna-asya poornam-aadaaya poornam-evaa vashishyate)
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ||	Om shaantih shaantih shaantih

 

English Lyrics	Meaning in English (with word by word meaning)
Om poornamadah poornamidam poornaat poornamudachyate	Om, That is complete, This is complete, From the completeness comes the completeness (Om=sound of creation, holy word; Poornam=Complete, Adah=that; poornam=complete;poornamadah=that is complete; idam=this; poornamidam=this is complete; poornaat=from completeness; udachyate=comes, rises; poornamudachyate=comes completeness)
Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaavashishṣyate	If completeness is taken away from completeness, Only completeness remains (Poorna=complete; asya=from; Poornasya=From completeness; poornamaadaaya=remove completeness; poornam=complete, eva=only; vashishyate=remains; poornamevaavashishṣyate=Only completeness remains)
Om shaantih shaantih shaantih	Om, Peace peace peace (Om=sound of creation, holy word; shaantih=Peace)

 

Samskriti 2016 Annual Day event

Hari Om

 

June 18th, Saturday 3pm -7:30pm @ Vrindavan Ashram - Samskriti 2016 Annual Day event 

 

For Samskriti our theme this year is 'My Guru - Swami Chinmaynanda'.  The theme is to depict teaching of Gurudev using 'Parables' or 'Say cheese' chapter as a guideline in putting together a performance

Our class was given the Parables book and the story selected is "Beware of the hunter"

 

You can read the story from the link below - It is in Pages 113-116

 

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8175970375

 

Moral of the story is not to repeat or chant a verse of wisdom without paying attention to its significance or meaning

 

We will share more details next week. 

 

BBNJ Amruthem -- Jan 31 st class

Hari Om parents

Thank you for your commitment to BalVihar for bringing your children on regular basis. Children that attend regularly and participates tends to learn efficiently and effortless-y.

We had slightly distracted class either due to the breaks in between due to the snow or the children missing the class. We still managed to cover our learning plan for the day.

As always we started our class with 3 Om's. (We also learned  the meaning of saying Om--Oh Lord, morning day and night, I love YOU) We often tell our children, our parents through out the day how much we love them, but tend to forget to show the love and gratitude to God.

We did opening shloka..."Sahana vavatu....."

We called upon Ganesha to help remove any obstacles from our learning for the day. We recited the shloka "Vakratunda mahakay......."

Once we were focused and ready to learn we called upon Saraswati maa to gives us knowledge and help us learn. We recited the shloka "Saraswati namastubhyam....."

Today we revised and talked more on our Hindu Temples  --

We showed  the picture of Bridgewater temple and asked the students to recognize the temple. Most of them were not able to recognize it but they were curious to tell the temples they visited .

We also learnt different parts of the temple like  Gajastambam ,Prakaram ,Mantapam , etc.. .and also the importance of temple. Kids were really excited about it .

We did temple coloring sheet  and snacks .
I told them the story of Markendaya and how he was saved by Loard Shiva .

We introduced new shloka  to kids  :

"
asato mā sadgamaya
tamasomā jyotir gamaya
mrityormāamritam gamaya
Oṁ śhānti śhānti śhāntiḥ" 



We ate our snack (gold fish and water) and did bathroom rounds. 

We ended our class with closing prayers "Om purna midah....."

Few reminders:

•  Please continue to recite shlokas with your children. When we introduce a new shloka to the class we recite each shlokas for 5 times.
• Continue to ask your children about their class lessons on your way hometo emphasize the learning process.

• Some of the children in our class are GREAT at reciting shloka/s and we would highly recommend to sign them up for Shlokathon. Please ask Dharani  or me for more information on it and we will guide you in the right direction.

Next class is on February 21 st .....See you then!!!!



Shubha Kishore