Dear Parents,
Thank you for training the kids at home to recite slokas and lead the class in prayers. It gives us so much joy to see so many kids confidently willing to come in front of the class to recite. We would like to see all the kids to do the same. If anyone has any questions or needs more help, please don't hesitate to talk to us.
Last week,
Sloka: Radhika Mataji taught the Bhagavad-Gita Sloka (chapter 10: Verse 9)
mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā
bodhayantaḥ parasparam
kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ
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.
Audio Link: BG 10:9
Story: We heard about Vidura - a gread devotee of the Lord.
Vidura was the younger brother of King Dhritarastra and Pandu and a chief advisor of King Dhritarastra. Dhritarastra was partial to his sons Kauravas and did not treat Pandavas, the sons of Pandu equally. Kauravas out of envy tried to kill Pandavas. Vidura hated injustice, but he couldn't persuade the king to control his sons.
Vidura's sense of fairness was because he had been Yamaraj in his last life. It was Lord Krsna's plan for Yamaraj to be born as Vidura.
Once upon a time. Manduka Muni was in deep meditation. A group of soldiers asked him if he had seen thieves. Since the Muni didn't answer them, the soldiers were very angry and went to search the thieves and found them hiding in the Manduka Muni's ashram.
The soldiers thought that the sage must be the leader of the thieves, so they bound him and took him to the chief judge. There Manduka muni was sentenced to death. When he was about to be executed, knowing abouth the sage, the king came just in time to save Manduka Muni. The king begged forgiveness and released him.
Manduka Muni did not blame the king, knowing that suffering is the result of his past sins. As he looked back over his life and considered that he was sinless, he went ot Yamaraj to find out what had he done wrong. Yamaraj told him that the reason for his difficulty was, as a child he had stabbed an ant with a thorn and killed it.
Manduka Muni said that he cannot be blamed for the act of an innocent child and was so furious he cursed Yamaraj to live on earth for one hundred years. Yamara being a great devotee of Lord Krsna could have easily counter-cursed him but accepted the curse as the arrangement of Lord Krnsa.
So. Yamaraj was born as Vidura on earth , tried to be just with everyone, always thinking of Krsna and after 100 years went back to his planet Pitriloka to take up his position again as the Lord of Justice, Yamaraj.
Finally, we concluded the class with the coloring picture of Yamaraj.
Looking forward to seeing all of you in the next class.
Haribol!!
Gopala Class Teachers
Radhika Mataji
Amutha
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