Audio- Mangalacaran prayers - to help kids memorize

Bhagavad Gita 10.8 and 10.9

Bhagavad Gita 10.8

Verse:
ahaḿ sarvasya prabhavo
mattaḥ sarvaḿ pravartate
iti matvā bhajante māḿ
budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ

Translation:

I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.

Bhagavad Gita 10.9

Verse:
mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā
bodhayantaḥ parasparam
kathayantaś ca māḿ nityaḿ
tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca

Translation:
The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

Weekly update 24th January

Dear parents,

Hare Krishna,

It was a short class last week. Lots of new kids so I repeated Bhagavad Gita 10.8.
Some of the kids already know 10.8 and 10.9. My previous blog has the slokas.

Next week I am going to teach the last two lines of Mangalacaran. We are going to tell two new pastimes of Lord Krishna. For the Bhagavad Gita I will teach 10.10

Instead of coloring activity we will do on the spot skid with the past times of Krishna stories.

I working on getting the audio for mangalacaran to help the kids recite at home.

Love and Regards,
Nama Priya

Weekly update - Jan 18th 2010

Dear Parents,

Hare Krishna,

Last Sunday we revised BG 10.9 sloka, please see in the previous blog. We will revise one more time next week and move on to a different sloka week after.

There is last couple of lines remaining for managala caran. We will do this in the next couple of weeks and from next month we will start with our famous Narasimha arati which is sung in the temple after the Gaura arati by kids.

The kids who are singing there learnt from our class last year. It is a wonderful prayer for Lord Narashima dev, who protects all of us.

See you all next week with more stories of Krishna past times. After the past times of Krishna we will continue with Mahabaratha story from where he left.

Have a nice week ahead.
Love and Regards
Nama Priya

Weekly update Jan 10th

Hare Krishna dear parents,

Today there was lots of kids and it was fun teaching them all. We did the mangalacaran and the kids who were coming from September got almost all of it with the help of their parents.

Today we started with Bhagavad Gita 10.9 and we completed the first line and we will go over the second line next week.

During story time, we did the birth of Krishna and next week I will tell them Putana and Catakasura story.

Bhagavad Gita 10.9
http://vedabase.net/bg/10/9/

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā

bodhayantaḥ parasparam

kathayantaś ca māḿ nityaḿ

tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca


Love and Regards
Nama Priya

Weekly update Jan 2nd class

Dear parents,
Hare Krishna.
I am going to take 10.9 sloka today, we will revise 10.8 sloka.
10.8 to 10.11 is called chatur slokas. In these 4 slokas Krishna gives very important message to us.

You can refer to the purports here http://vedabase.net/bg/10/8/

We discussed about a small sweet story about why banyan tree has small fruits and why the creepers have big fruits.

I will go over it again this week and do one Krishna past time story.

See you all today evening.

Haribol
Nama Priya

Weekly update - Last class in 2009

Dear parents,

Hare Krishna.

We started with 9.14 and we will continue next week (ie today) also.
We will also do mangalacaran, some kids are going to complete and we will make them recite and other kids can follow them.

In the story time we discussed about why Krishna created small fruits in a banyan tree and a big fruits in creepers.

We will reiterate this once again and I am going to talk about Birth of Krishna this week.

Bhagavad Gita 9.14 is below:

satataḿ kīrtayanto māḿ

yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ

namasyantaś ca māḿ bhaktyā

nitya-yuktā upāsate

Translation:

Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.