This Sunday, we began the class with opening prayers and the first 5 shlokas of Guru stotram.
We recapped the story of the Mahabharata from the last class and continued with the story as follows:
The two armies are ready for war on the battlefield. Yudhishtra seeks Bhishma's blessings.
Arjuna collapses when he realises that he has to fight his own kith and kin and Lord Krishna delivers the teaching that we now know as the Bhagwad Gita and shows him the Vishwarupa.
Arjuna readies himself to fight and the war begins with Bhishma wreaking havoc through the Pandava ranks. After nine days of valiant fighting, wins and losses, Yudhishtra approaches Bhishma for help as to how to defeat him. Bhishma tells him to put Shikhandi in front of Arjuna and that he will not shoot at Shikhandi.
At this point a couple of children were able to give a detailed account of the history and life of Shikhandi. We ended with the defeat of Bhishma and him laying on a bed of arrows.
The kids also watched a video clip of the fall of Bhishma. We had a small quiz about the life of Bhishma.
We completed the chanting of shlokas 9,10. See below.
Activity for the last day of class in 2020. Since Dec 20 will be the last class of 2020, I would like to request the parents to send me one pic of your child from 2020 that he or she thinks was the happiest moment of this year. I will try and put together a slide show/ collage for the kids to spend some time on and talk about the good that happened in this rather difficult year.
Please send it to me as a private message on whatsapp (Prarthana - 704-488-8029) or you can email it to sunamgr6@chinmayavrindavan.org. Please send it before Dec 15.
Thank you,
Prarthana and Jyothy