We had 4 new additions to our class this week. It was so satisfying to have so many students attend the class on a Friday night.
The following are details of what Purnima and I did in the class
· We started our class with our opening prayers followed by Vaidika invocations/dhyana shlokas and on Lord Shiva
· Taught Om Namaste astubhagavan… and Om Trayam bakam from Sri Rudram. The children picked up the chanting with the intonations quickly
· We then moved on to a quick recap of our last class. This way our new friends could grasp what we taught them last week
· One of the topics for today was I am the author of my life and I am the one who holds my future. I am responsible for my future and I get what I work for.
· We had a discussion on this after narrating 3 stories.
· Having a goal and working towards it is important, was our conclusion.
· We talked on how to take charge of our lives and can become high achievers.
· Pujya Gurudev was our example. We narrated the events in Gurudev's life, his divine mission and the outcome.
· We have started an activity on self-introspection. We are going to be doing it very week for several weeks.
· The activity comprised of writing down their analysis, detection and fixing the folly, based on the messages they have learned in class.
· We gave them an example, I have analyzed I waste my time, I have detected I spend too much time watching TV, and I can fix my habit by reducing the time spent on watching TV.
· We agreed to have small goals, not to be too harsh on ourselves, to make our goals achievable.
· We started preparing for our annual Gita chanting competition. We listened to Pujya Swamijis chanting of the 1st 2 verses for the competition. Swamiji's Gita message was very inspiring to all of us.
· We concluded our class by doing the arathi and pledge in the prayer hall with the 8th grade leading us.
Two reminders for the children:
· Please ask the children to take the quiz so that they can be sorted into their respective houses.
· The following children want to volunteer for the Garba night on October 13th. Mridula, Akshita, Mahita, Mahika, Nishant Nair, Kavin, Aryan, Pranav, Indraneel, Meiyappan and Abhiram. Please contact thejasvi.venkatachalam@gmail.com. Her phone Number is 7328950618
Pranams,
Nirmala & Purnima
