Churning of Milk Ocean - Part 2

Hare Krsna!!!

Dear Parents,
Ram Navami show: All the kids were so cute in their characters dress and made a wonderful show. Thank you parents for all your excellent effort and support for the show.

This week,
Kids were so excited about the egg hunt and had a blast hunting for the eggs.

PRAYERS : We started the class with prayers to get the blessings of Guru and Lord Krsna .

SLOKA TIME: We revised "vit-raaga-krodha" (BG 4:10) slokas as many of the kids wanted to repeat the sloka.
(Note: Please refer to the old posts for all the previously taught slokas and their translations.)

STORY TIME: Namapriya Mataji continued with the part 2 of the Churning of Milk Ocean with lot of animation and the kids loved doing the actions and were completely mesmerized with the story.

Following the Lord's instructions, the demigods and the demons went to the base of the golden Mount Mandara. They lifted the mountain and carried it toward the ocean. As it was so heavy, everyone became so tired, they lost their grip and the mountain fell down and many of the demigods an demons were crushed to death and so many were injured. They prayed to the Lord to help them.
The Lord instantly came on His carrier Gaurda and revived all of them just with His compassionate glance. They praised the Lord for His miraculous deed. Then the Lord raised the mountain with one hand and placed it on Garuda's back and carried and lowered the mountain into the Ocean of Milk.
After the mountain was in place, they asked Vasuki, the giant thousand-headed serpent, to help in churning. Vasuki agreed and coiled around the mountain ready for churning. The demons protested when the demigods went to hold the head of the serpent. Under the Lord's instructions, the demigods agreed to hold the tail end of Vasuki and the demons held the head of Vasuki.
The demons were satisfied as the demigods gave what they wanted, they both started churning but, as the mountain didn't have any base, it fell into the ocean. They again prayed to the Lord to help them. The Lord assumed the form of a giant tortoise known as Kurma and dove into the milk and lifted the mountain onto His shell and raised it above the surface. The demigods and the demons happily started to churn again with much enthusiasm. As the mountain was unbalanced on top, the Lord manifested with one-thousand arms and kept Mandara mountain firmly fixed with His hands.
As they were churning intensively, the first thing that came out of the ocean was not the nectar but the poison from Vasuki. The demons and demigods were so tired and was coughing from the poison. So, the Lord suggested to get help from Lord Shiva.
Hearing and pleased with the demigods and demons' prayers, Lord Shiva came to help and started drinking the poison. Mother Parvathi fearing for Lord Shiva grabbed his neck to stop the poison from the entering his body and it caused a bluish line to appear on Lord shiva's neck....

Namapriya Mataji will continue with the story next week.

Looking forward to seeing all of you in the next class.
Haribol!!!!
Gopala Class Teachers