Dear Parents,
Hari Om!
We started our class with opening prayers.
We discussed what an avatāra is, various avatāras of Lord viṣṇu, why God takes different avatāras, and learned names of the 10 avatāras. As a class we brainstormed and concluded that God takes an avatāra to remove evil or save someone good or teach us a lesson.
Here is the list of the 10 avatāras (Note: no particular order)
मत्स्य, वराह, नृसिंह, बुद्ध, राम, परशुराम, वामन, कल्कि, कृष्ण, कूर्म
matsya, varāha, nṛsiṃha, buddha, rāma, paraśurāma, vāmana, kalki, kṛṣṇa, kūrma
We started to learn Guru Stotram and kids learned to chant the first 4 verses.
Kids were asked to do a few jumping jacks and then they sat down to medidate for 5 minutes by chanting "oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya" . We then tried chanting "oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya" in a tree a pose (balance on one leg and chant the mantra).
We breifly started the story of why and who wrote Bala Bhagavatam and we will continue this in the next class. Kids did likhita japa of "oṃ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya".
Announcements:
Next class is on 09/29/2019 and will start as usual at 12:45PM. However, after 30 min of class, kids will be taken to the auditorium for Saraswati puja. It will be great if kids can come in traditional Indian attire.
Please make sure that your child has a notebook, pencils, and Balavihar handbook. We use these in every class.
Note: If you have not already joined our class parents Whatsapp group, please do . Please mention your child's name so that I know whose parent you are.
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Unto him our best
Venu Avva
