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Oct 16, 2022 - Grade 5 (Sunday PM)

Hari Om Parents,
October 16, 2022 -  Class Updates
  1. Kids wrote Likhita japa for the first five minutes.
  2. We started off the class with the chanting of OM three times and opening prayer (Dhyana shloka - Om Saha Navavatu)
  3. Ganesha Pancharatnam - shloka chanting -  reviewed the first verse and learnt the second verse.
    1. Kids did great in the class by following the chanting. Please ask them to practice.
  4. Mahabharata
    1. Continuation of Adi parva
      1. After Bheeshma took the vows that he will not inherit the throne of Hastinapura and will never get married, Satyavati's father agreed to get Satyavati married to King Shantanu.
      2. King Shantanu and Satyavati had two sons - Chitraangada and Vichitraveerya
      3. Attached below is the outline of the family tree. Thanks to Rashmi Kashi for sharing the chart.
      1. When Chitraangada grew up, he became king of Hastinapura.
      2. There was also a Gandharva named Chitraangada and he called for a duel with Hastinapura's King Chitraangada. The Chitraangada versus Chitraangada fight happened and Hastinapura's King Chitraangada died in the fight.
      3. Naturally, Vichitraveerya was next to the throne and he became King of Hastinapura.
      4. The King of Kashi held a swayamvara for his three daughters - Amba, Ambika, and Ambalika. The Kingdom of Hastinapura did not get an invite for the swayamvara.
      5. Bheeshma, uninvited, went to swayamvara and took the Kashi princesses
      6. King Shalva who came to swayamwara, opposed Bheeshma and got defeated
      7. Bheeshma took the princesses to Hastinapura. 
      8. Amba, the eldest of Kashi princesses disclosed that she is interested in marrying King Shalva and hence was let go.
      9. Amba got rejected by King Shalva - he did not want to accept her because of his defeat to Bheeshma
      10. Amba came back to Hastinapura and got rejected by Vichitraveerya
      11. Amba went to Bheeshma and asked him to marry her. Because of the vow, Bheeshma rejected her
      12. Amba wanted to take revenge on Bheeshma. She did tapas towards Lord Karthikeya. Lord Karthikeya gave her a garland of lotus flowers and told her that the one who wears this garland and fights Bheeshma, will defeat Bheeshma
      13. Amba went to the Guru of Bheeshma, Parashurama and requested him to fight Bheeshma
      14. Bheeshma could not be defeated by Parashurama
      15. Amba did tapas towards Lord Shiva and got a boon that she will be the cause of Bheeshma's death in her next birth. Amba went into the fire from the tapas.
      16. Vichitraveerya after marrying Ambika and Ambalika, died without having any heirs
      17. With the blessing of Vyasa ji, Ambika, Ambalika and Ambika's maid got sons. 
        1. Ambika had a blind child and his name was Dhrtarashatra. 
        2. Ambalika had a pale child and his name was Pandu. 
        3. Ambika's maid had a wise child and his name was Vidura.
      18. Kids did the word scramble activity


  1. Story of a Saint - Swami Sivananda
    1. Swami Sivananda was born in Tamil Nadu in 1887.
    2. His child name was Kuppuswamy
    3. He became medical doctor by profession and went to Malaysia for practice
    4. He was kind and served the poor by treating them for free
    5. He met a sannyasi and got transformed
    6. He became Swami Sivananda
    7. He is a very good friend of Swami Tapovan
    8. Swami Tapovan wrote about Swami Sivananda's kindness in his book Ishwara Darshanam
    9. Swami Sivananda established Divine Life Society
    10. He wrote books on Yoga
    11. He is the Guru of Swami Chinmayananda and under whom Swami Chinmayananda took sannyas
    12. Values to be learned from him - to be kind, to serve humanity
    13. Photos are available in http://archives.chinmayamission.com/gurus/swami-sivananda/Intro
  2. Kids practiced the Bhagavad Gita chanting using video - Verses 1 and 2 of Chapter 3
    1. https://youtu.be/YR_0-rSUa5U
  3. Kids got a green color (their house color for Arjuna's Arrows) Chinmaya Vrindavan Notebook. 
    1. Notebook has nice quotes of Swami Chinmayananda on every page.
    2. It has pages for Likhita japa. Kids can use them for writing Likhita japa in the class. 
    3. It has a page with 12 mantras for Surya Namaskar
  4. Aarati and pledge in the Temple Hall 
There is no Balavihar class next Sunday, October 23rd. We will meet on October 30th. We wish you all a very Happy Diwali!  

Please reach out to us if you have any questions. Thanks.

Regards,
Roopa and Ramee

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