Hari Om Parents,
We started with an opening prayer. This week we celebrated various Indian regional New year, we discussed that and shared how it was celebrated at their home. Some kids shared they had "Pachadi" and expressed how they felt after eating. It's a South Indian dish made of sweet, salt, sour, bitter, tangy and piquant ingredients to showcase the various experiences we go through in life and pick the good from it.
We talked about another significance of the regional new year. It's the start of the harvest season in India - where we start plowing and seeding crops for the upcoming harvest.
This week we discussed "Duty vs Rights" to highlight how it brings harmony in the community if everyone/majority follows their duties. Kids came up with their examples to articulate the difference between duty vs rights. Also Discussed about Swami Chinmayananda's quote "Hinduism is built upon duties and not rights"
Following that Discussed about the 4 stages of life( Brahmacharya, Grihasta, Vanaprastha, Sanyasa) again to highlight the duties of each stage and each one/ especially "Grihasta" serves by supporting all the other stages of life.
Also we discussed the dharma cakra concept of how Sanatana dharma values act as a spokes in life to strengthen who we are.
A small story of Devas & Asuras get together where they were challenged to eat with a right hand only which was tied with a straight stick. How Asuras are without harmony; however Devas fed each other harmoniously to eat even though their hands were not bendable. Kids were laughing and enjoyed the story.
We quickly touch base on the class play write up as where we stand and make sure kids complete the write up by the next class.
It was time for Geeta chanting, so all of us focused on chanting. After closing prayer we went to the temple.
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Pranams
Selvi
Partha
