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.

Arjuna winning Draupadi's hand

Dear parents,
Hare Krishna.

I was not there last week. I got the class information from Vraja Bakti mtj. The story in her own words:

I told then the story of Draupadi Swaymwar. We recited the names of all pandavas, their mother’s name Kunti. We also talked a bit about who Karna was and who was Duryodhana. I mentioned that Arjuna and Krishna were cousins. Also after Rukmini, Draupadi was the most beautiful and sought after woman. I talked to about Draupadi rejecting Karna and insulting him for his lower birth by saying that we was not raised to be kind even if he was a king now and therefore an unfit husband for her. I described the story of how Arjuna hit the rotating fish on the ceiling by looking at its reflection in a bowl of water. I veered into the story of how Arjuna was so focus and told them the story of how Arjuna could hit the wooden bird in the tree because he could only see the bird’s head and nothing else. Once Arjuna married Krishna I told them on about Arjuna taking Draupadi to Kunti and told Kunti to guess what he had got. Kunti unaware of the marriage told Arjuna to share whatever he had gotten with his brothers. At this both Arjuna and Draupadi were shocked and did not know what to do. Kunti was also shocked once she learned that Arjuna had gotten Draupadi and she had told him to share her. I described in short the past life of Draupadi where she had undergone penances and attained boon from lord Shiva for a perfect husband. But since a perfect husband cannot be in one man she now had 5 husbands.

BG 10.8 and class update

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.


This is my favourite sloka and a very important too.
The mangalacaran line which we discussed last week is

śrī-rūpaḿ sāgrajātaḿ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaḿ taḿ sa-jīvam

The story we discussed was the past time of Bhima marrying Hidumbi and killing Hidumba and also killing the demon who was disturbing the village. We also discussed the Varnavat palace escape of the Pandavas. We stopped Pandavas going to Panchal.

Thank you
Nama Priya

Mangalacaran - part 2

vande 'haḿ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaḿ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāḿś ca

śrī-rūpaḿ sāgrajātaḿ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaḿ taḿ sa-jīvam

sādvaitaḿ sāvadhūtaḿ parijana-sahitaḿ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaḿ

śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāḿś ca

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and unto the feet of all Vaiṣṇavas. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī along with his elder brother Sanātana Gosvāmī, as well as Raghunātha Dāsa and Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa, and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī. I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda along with Advaita Ācārya, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa, and other associates. I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Śrī Kṛṣṇa along with Their associates Śrī Lalitā and Viśākhā.

Bajan - Radharani ki jai

Radharani Ki Jai
Maharani Ki Jai
Bolo Barasanewali Ki Jai Jai Jai


All glories to Radharani, all glories to the Supreme queen;
Sing the glories of Radharani, who is the resident of Barsana;


Thakurani Ki Jai
Hari pyari Ki Jai
Vrishabhanu Dulari Ki Jai Jai Jai
All glories to “Thakurani, who is the beloved of Sri Hari;
All glories to the beloved daughter of King Vrishabhanu;


Gaurangi Ki Jai
Hemangi Ki Jai
Vrajraj Kumari Ki Jai Jai Jai
All glories to Radharani who has a fair complexion and a golden appearance;
All glories to the princess of Vraja;


Vrajrani Ki Jai
Vrajdevi Ki Jai
Gehevarvan vali Ki Jai Jai Jai
All glories to the queen of Vraja, the goddess of Vraja;
All glories to Her, who wanders in Gehevarvan Forest.

BG 8.5 Audio, Sloka and translation

Verse:
anta-kāle ca mām eva

smaran muktvā kalevaram

yaḥ prayāti sa mad-bhāvaḿ

yāti nāsty atra saḿśayaḥ

Translation:
And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.