Hari Om Parents!
We are requesting all students to take notes in the class and teachers randomly choose one of them to write the summary every week. This week's summary was written by Sanmayi Somayaji.
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Karma (Action) has four main parts to it:
Doer
Action/activity,
Instrument,
Result.
In the last class, we learned that our actions (karma) can only be done with three main instruments; body, mind, and speech. Our Aatma (which serves as our conscience) tells us whether what we do is right or wrong. The karma always comes back to our Aatma (inner voice), which means it won't necessarily come in the current life, to the current body. The story of Jada Bharata shows this. Being so attached to the deer, he was not able to continue with his life and do the actions he was supposed to do. Because his last thoughts were of the deer and not god, he became a deer in his next life. The karma of the Sage's first life only affected him in his second. This shows the law of karma.
The main point is that any action we take will have a result, and it will come back to you. If the action is good, the result will be good, and vice versa. Another important point is that when you do bad things, to others or yourself, it will come back. That's one of many reasons we pray to god; to make our bad actions go away.
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Last Sunday was the 3rd class of Bala Vihar for this year.
Chanting time:
We started the class with 3 OM, followed by the list of Dhyana Sloka:
Om Saha navavatu
Sarasvati Namastubhyam
Guru Brahma Guru Vishnuhu
Samasta Jana Kalyane
Please refer to " My Prayer Book" to learn and memorize if the kids are not fluent.
Topic of the day: Karma and it results.
continued with Karma concept by explaining the below aspects:
Karta(doer)
Karma (Type of Action)
Karmaphala(Result)
Timeline i.e when ( certain action will result within a certain period in the same life and some will result in next birth also).
Brainstorming:
Had the kids to share examples on bad action and it's result as well as good action and it's result.
One of the students told the story of Dasaratha and young boy Sravana - son of the blind parents. How their curse to Dasaratha resulted in Dasaratha to get separated from Rama during his end of life.
Example of Karma and it results from Mahabharata:
Discussed the Jada Bharata story and how his actions towards fawn(baby deer) and attachment till his end of life led him to born as deer in the next life. However his good deeds from previous human birth made him(as deer) remember who he was before and during deer life, he kept him to remain action-less (inactivity) to reach his goal towards moksha. The subsequent birth again he was born as human and continued with good deeds only to attain moksha. Concluded the story with how our actions result us to continue the Birth and death life cycle.
Discussed about how moksha is possible only for human birth through our actions /evolution towards higher nature.
Introduced the Instruments of sentient used in Karma by the doer:
Body
Mind
Speech
Started with group discussion with the teams that were formed last week.
Each team was assigned with one instrument and asked to come with the activities that are related to it.
Team 1 - Body
Team 2 - Mind
Team 3 - Mind
Team 4 - Speech
Next class we will be continuing the group discussion and have the teams to share and explain their activities.
Pranams
Selvi
Partha
