First of all, Congratulations to all Dhairyam class kids for all their active participation in the Chitramela art work. There are 2 entries from our class selected for the calendar. Good Job everyone! It definitely is a happy moment for us teachers and all children.
The Gita chapter 16 was taught in the assembly starting today. Every assembly session there will be Gita teaching aimed towards our annual Gita Yagna which happens in April (details in the handbook)
We resumed our class session after the assembly in our class. We started off with opening prayers and OM chanting.
We did our Hanuman Chalisa- meaning of each verse and any story and/or activity behind.
Today we saw 3rd,4th and 5th line of the 40.
*Hanuman JI is strong like Indra's weapon- Vajra. Hanuman JI's other name is Bajrangi.
*Hanuman JI has no wicked thoughts (Kumati), instead always has good thoughts (Sumati)
*Hanuman JI is Mahaveera. Someone considered Mahaveera, should have the following qualities
1.Thyagaveera/Dharmaveera- Hero in Sacrifice
2.Dayaveera - Hero in Compassion
3.Vidyaveera - Hero in Knowledge/learning
4.Dayaveera - Hero in Charity
5.Ranaveera - Hero in Battlefield
We understood the story of the birth of Hanuman Ji to Punjikasthala, the heavenly maiden born as Anjanidevi who married Kesari, the king of Vanaras. They prayed to the Vayudev who inturn blessed them with a powerful child, Hanuman. It was that time where the asura power trying to out number deva power. Lord Vishnu decided to take His 7th avatar by taking birth in a human form as SriRama. Lord Siva wanted to assist in Lord Vishnu's mission of removing the evil forces as Srirama. So Lord Siva's divine powers are blessed to Hanuman JI and the Brahma and other celestial devas took the form of Vanaras, the monkey clan. The trinity power won over the bad forces.
We understood that Indra's Vajra weapon was made out of sage Dhadhichi's backbone. This sage is a Thayagaveera who sacrificed his life to make a celestial/divine weapon to win the evil forces disrupting the world.
We saw a story of how bad thoughts in one person hurts not only himself but others too.
We saw another story of God being pleased when a devotee helps the community. Service to humanity is service to God.
We did an interesting activity of throwing away our negative thoughts in the garbage. We are not going to carry any wicked/negative thoughts- that makes us look no attractive.
*Noble, Divine and being humble are all attractive qualities. They are abstract, but phenomenal.
To be attractive, we need to see good, hear good and talk good. Use arms and legs to do good. Use mind for good thinking.
*Flag and vajra etched on Hanuman JI's palm. Vajra representing the strength; Flag represents success and fame.
*Janeu- sacred thread for self control. Once upanayanam is done, the boy gets to a sort of responsible level and is no longer playful all the times.
ART WORK- we did our backbone project and today we did the 5th quality Nirbhayam. No problem if we have not touched the 5th number. We will do it. No worries :)
We thank all parents for sending in supplies- pencils, erasers, markers, crayons etc. Thank you.
We also would want them to have their Guru Stotram and Hanuman Chalisa coloring book and Superman Hanuman (our prescribed text) to be brought to class every session. Please let us know if you do not have text books, or handbook or Guru stotram.
Thanks to all parents for sending in healthy snacks and we will continue encouraging that.
Kindly play the M.S.Subbulakshmi and the Sooryagayathri version of Hanuman Chalisa every day. It's just 10 minutes. If not at least every alternate days.
Homework- 1.Please make the children color until line 5 in Hanuman chalisa coloring book (numbers printed at the bottom R side of the page)
2. Please make them practice to sing the chalisa. let the youtube run and they can join along. We will keep singing in the class too.
3. Please practice guru stotram (first 5 lines and try to memorize it) We will have a memory quiz sometime which will be a SURPRISE!
We concluded with closing prayers. Next session on 12/13/15. Attached is a pic of today's class for quick visual understanding.
Thank you.
Regards
Dhairyam Teachers.
No comments:
Post a Comment