Hari OM
Happy New Year 2021!!
Prayer time:
We started our class with our opening prayers "Sahanaavathu" followed by Vakrathunda Mahakaya, Saraswathi Namsthubhyam, Guru Brahma, and Buddhir balam.
Activity time:
Rupali Aunty shared an awesome Vishnu chakra craft.
Bhagvatham Time:
Quick recap-
3 types of devotion 1) Taamasic Devotion 2) Rajasik Devotion 3) Saatvik
Taamasic Devotion is that kind of devotion where people filled with anger, hatred, jealousy pray for their selfish needs. People with this Guna always tend to be lazy not wanting to do anything. The second kind of devotion is Rajasik where people pray for material gains. People in this category always have a lot of worldly desires to accomplish. The third type is Saatvik Devotion which is the highest form of devotion where the devotee prays to the Lord not for anything but only out of love. In this kind of devotion, the devotee keeps on thinking about the Lord and his glories. We recapped some sub-stories too to explain these clearly.
Story Time:
Sati
Sati was the daughter of Daksha. Sati was a very ardent devotee of Lord Siva. She would always think of Lord Siva and do his pooja. She could not think of anything else other than Siva. Finally Siva and Sati got married.
One day, Sati's father, Daksha decided to perform a huge sacrifice. All the Gods, sages, kings and the celestial beings were invited. The time for the sacrifice came in and just as Daksha walked into the place everyone other than Lord Siva rose up to show him respect. Daksha felt very much insulted and lost his temper. He cursed him with very bad words but Siva kept very quiet and didn't utter a word. After all the commotion Siva left to his abode. After few months Daksha again decided to perform a huge sacrifice. He invited everyone other than Siva and Sati. Sati wanted to go to her house for the sacrifice. Siva advised her not to go as they were not invited. But Sati still went to participate for the sacrifice. On reaching there she found that no yagna sacrifice had been kept for Siva. She got furious and and turned to her father and told that she is ashamed to be born as his daughter and burnt herself in fire and was reduced to ashes. Siva on hearing the news of Sati trembled with fury and quickly pulled out a lock of his hair and threw it on the ground and it emerged into a gigantic terrible form, Virabhadra. Virabhadra immediately went to the sacrificial ground and destroyed everything there and chopped off Daksha's head and put it in the fire. All the devas became terrified at the terrible form and went to Lord Siva and requested him to calm down. Siva said Daksha's head could not be reversed again as it had been destroyed and thus replaced it with the head of a goat. From then on Daksha was very thankful to Lord Siva and always respected Him.
Geetha chanting time:
Below is the youtube link to this week's verses (7 & 8) chapter 2. Please be sure to practice at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-J_LXuAaM&feature=youtu.be
See you all next week!!!
With Love,
Indira & Rupali Aunty
