Oct 29, 2023 - Grade 5 (Sunday PM)

Hari Om Parents,

October 29, 2023 -  Class Updates

1. We started the class with chanting OM three times and opening prayer(Dhyana sloka - Om Sahana Vavatu)
2.  We practiced aarthi to prepare for singing aarthi in the temple. 
3. Story of a Saint - Sivananda Saraswati 
   
1. Swami Sivananda was born as Kuppuswami on 8 September  1887.
2.  As a child he was very active and promising in fine arts. 
3. He attended medical school in Tanjore. 
4. Upon graduation he left for Malaysia to work in a hospital. 
5. In his private medical practice - he never charged any fees to the poor. Instead he offered money to them to cover their expenses after discharge from hospital.
   
6. He served for 10 years in the hospital.
   
7. जीव - ब्रह्म - ऐक्यम्- book. This book changed his life. It ignited his dormanant Spirituality.
   
8. He left for Rishikesh ( Uttarakhand). He took Sannyasa and became Swami Shivananda.
   
9. He lived in austerity. He spent all his time in meditation and study of scriptures.
   
10. In 1936 he started the Divine Life Society in a small hut. He took care of ill and sick people. He visited ailing people. He gave them medicines and food. With this small beginning now Divine Life Society has headquarters all over the world.
    
11. He gave Sannyasa to Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. He chaired the World Parliament of Religions in 1953.
12. He took Mahasamadhi(departure of a self realized Saint from his mortal coil)  on July 14, 1963 
13. Message he left us with  - Love - Treat everyone with love and care. Serve the needy people. Be compassionate. Devotion. ( Love - Serve - Compassion)
4. Kids did the crossword puzzle to revise the characters we have seen so far in Mahabharata 

5. Kids performed saraswathi pooja in the temple today followed by aarthi. 

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Thanks 

Rameshwari & Roopa