Hari OM
Parents-
Beginning prayers
· saha naavavatu
. Vakratunda Mahakaya
. Saraswathi Namasthubhyam
. Gururbrahmaa
. Budhir Balam
· Guru Stotram 6 verses
Gitaa chanting
· verses 3 & 4 chapter 1
Yoga Time
4-5 poses
Story time
· parIkShit meets kali
· kali's address
· the curse
· parIkShit meets shukadeva
Comments:
We did a recap of the story with all the names and representations we had learnt so far. We were so amazed at how well the children remembered so many details! We then continued to learn about how kali was so cruel to the white bull that represented dharma. It's 4 legs were - austerity, purity, kindness and truth. Kali had broken 3 of its legs and the bull was standing limp on truth alone. King parIkShita saw him at this time and was about to punish him. But then kali begged for mercy. King parIkshita allowed kali to make his home where there was no dharma. So kali was granted permission to live in 4 places where there was - gambling, drinking, lust (overwhelming desire) and cruelty. Kali begged for more places to live and parIkShita granted him to live where there was rajoguNa (running after wealth).
Building on the story, we heard how once king parIkShita went on a hunting venture. After a long time, he got weary, hungry and thirsty. He walked into the ashram nearby where sage shamika sat in very deep meditation. The king asked him for food and water, but the sage was unaware of the king's arrival. Restless and hungry, the king lost guard of his thoughts and actions. The king got annoyed. He placed a dead snake that was lying near by, on the sage, in order catch his attention. But the sage was in such deep meditation that he did not know what the king had done. His son, sage shRungI, saw this and cursed the king, saying that he shall die in 7 days, by getting bitten by a snake called takShaka! On waking up from his meditation, sage shamika was not happy with the events that had happened. He scolded his son for having cursed and asked him to go and apologize to the king! This showed us that, one mistake cannot be fixed by another mistake!
We had a wonderful discussion with examples, how we forget guarding our thoughts at times and get in trouble.
Regards,
Indira/Raji
