Hari OM
Prayer time:
We started our class with our opening prayers "Sahanaavathu" followed by Vakrathunda Mahakaya, Saraswathi Namsthubhyam, Guru Brahma, and Buddhir balam.
Activity time:
We had a pop quiz.
Bhagvatham Time:
Quick recap-
Jaya & Vijaya - Gatekeepers of Lord Vishnu
Story Time:
Kardama And Devahuti
Kardama was a great sage who used to do tapas for many years. He prayed to the Lord to bless him with a beautiful wife. After many years, the Lord appeared before him and blessed him. He promised him very soon Manu, the first man is going to come to him and give his daughter in marriage to him.
Manu and Shatarupa, the first man and woman had 2 sons and 3 daughters. It was time for one of their daughters to get married. Manu and Shatarupa started looking for a suitable groom. One day Narada Ji came there and asked them to find sage Kardama and get their daughter married to him. So Manu and Shatarupa went to the forest looking for the sage and came across a beautiful ashram on the banks of river saraswati and found a young sage who was doing tapas. Manu and Shatarupa offered their daughter, Devahuti in marriage. But the sage had one condition. He told once he bears a son he will leave the ashram and go for the ultimate realization. Everyone agreed. And Kardama and Devahuti both liked each other and thus got married. They lived many years a hard life of penance and sacrifice. After many years of tapas, nine girls were born to them and then after many years a son was born to them. He was named Kapila. After Kapila's birth, sage Kardama left his ashram and went for doing tapas.
Kapila
Kapila, son of Kardama and Devahuti, became famous as a divine teacher and a sage. He is the founder of the Saankhyan philosophy. One day Kapila's mother, Devahuti asked her son to teach her how to gain freedom from the cycle of birth and death. He told his mother to attain freedom, one must have a pure heart and to attain that there are 7 ways :
1. Obeying the rules of Life
2. Performing one's Duties
3. Seeing Work as Worship
4. Chanting God's name again and again
5. Trusting God as a trusted, beloved friend
6. Seeing the Blessed Lord in all creatures
7. Loving God
We learned about the three kinds of Devotion, 1) Taamasic Devotion 2) Rajasik Devotion 3) Saatvik Devotion. Please ask your kids about these 3 types od devotion. We will discuss this in detail next week.
Geetha chanting time:
Below is the youtube link to this week's verses (5& 6) chapter 2. Please be sure to practice at home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFJXjzJcMg&feature=youtu.be
See you all next week!!!
With Love,
Indira & Rupali Aunty
