Hari Om,
Following is covered in our Balavihar Class on 15th September
- As this is our very first Balavihar session, we started the class with Ice Breaker. We did brief introduction and have asked / talked about their favorite activity / sports.
- We discussed about the Curriculum
- Maha Bharat – Part I, we cover stories till Virat Parv. Learning rich and complex epic to understand Dharma
- India Sacred Land: Sage
- Slokas – Ajam Nirvikalpam
- Slokas – Ganesh Pancharatna (Mudakaratha Modakam....)
- Bhajans – Jai Jagadeeshahare Aarthi
- Bhajans - Sri Chinmaya Aarthi
- Started the class with Meditation (2 mins), followed by Guru Stotram
- We started learning Sloka – Ajam Nirvikalpam
- We learnt the origin of Mahabharat, mainly vision of Veda Vyas, his prayer to Brahma Ji for help. Upon Brahma Ji's blessing and direction, Veda Vyas's request to Bless Ganesh Bhagavan to scribe the Mahabharat. We covered conditions from Ganapati / Ganesh to scribe the story and counter condition of Veda Vyas.
- "Lord, I have conceived an excellent work, but cannot think of one who can take it down to my dictation."
- Brahma extolled Vyas and said: "O sage, invoke Ganesh Ji and beg him to be your amanuensis." Having said these words he disappeared. The sage Vyas meditated on Ganesh Ji who appeared before him. Vyas received him with due respect and sought his aid.
- "Lord Ganesh ji, I shall dictate the story of the Mahabharata and I pray you to be graciously pleased to write it down."
- Ganapati replied: "Very well. I shall do as you wish. But my pen must not stop while I am writing. So you must dictate without pause or hesitation. I can only write on this condition"
- Vyas agreed, guarding himself, however, with a counter stipulation: "Be it so, but you must first grasp the meaning of what I dictate before you write it down."
- Ganapati smiled and agreed to the condition.
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