F- Friendship - Krishna Sudama story

Below is the prayer we were singing before story time

he krishna karuna-sindho dina bandho jagat pate

gopesha gopika-kanta radha-kanta namo 'stu te


O my dear Krishna, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the gopis and the lover of Radharani. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

During the story time we discussed what friendship means and took the story of Krishna and Sudama to teach as an example of friendship to kids. The story will be continued next week from Krishna meeting Sudama in the palace.

We also revised Krishna's colors and Gajendra story.

Gajendra story and Bagavad Gita 7th chapter

Dear parents,

I am so happy to be back to tell stories to the kids.

For the last couple of weeks we have been discussing about the colors of Krishna and Gajendra story.

Also revising Bagavad Gita Slokas from 7th Chapter.

Below are the lyrics of the bajan which we are teaching in the class.


Govind mero hai Gopal mero hai
Banke bihari nandalal mero hai

charanan mein nupura jhanakari
Nanda yasoda ajava bihari
dinan pe sada doyal mero hai

Govind mero hai.. (refrain)

Braja mandal mein gaiyan charave
makhan chori luti dadhi khave
das tero dekhkan nihal mero

Govind mero hai... (refrain)

I will see you all again on sunday evening

Narashimha dev story III and Bhajan

Dear parents,

Hare Krishna.

Prahlad Mahraj and his father

Last week we talked about how prahlad mahraj was strong in his principle even though his fater tortured him. Even though his father threw him out of the mountain he prayed that his father should realize about Vishnu.

We started with Kayathu (Hiranyakasipu's wife) in Naradhaji's ashram hearing about past times of Krishna and how Prahlad was educated when he was in the womb. He already knew about Krishna when he was born.

When he was 5 years like our Gopalas he went to Gurukul run by Sanda and Amarka. But their teachings did not make any sense to Prahlad. All they taught was how to be a king by killing enemies. Prahlad thought there should not be any enemies he was so compassionate for all of them.He treated everyone equally so all of his friends in the school liked him so much.

Next week we will finish how Narashimha dev saves Prahlad.

Bhajan:
We finished Jaya radha madhava... and we will move on to another small bhajan.

The sunday school will come to an end in a month or so, but we will still continue to have the class to engage the kids.

Thank you
Nama priya & Anu radha

Lord Narashimha story Part 2 and Bhagavad Gita 18.66

Dear parents,

Hare Krishna.

We did Narashimha story starting with Hiranyakasipu doing mediation till Prahalad goes to school.

We will cover more in next section about teachings of Prahlad mahraj.

Bhagavad Gita sloka we recited was 18.66

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaḿ śaraṇaḿ vraja
ahaḿ tvāḿ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

sarva-dharmān — all varieties of religion; parityajya — abandoning; mām — unto Me; ekam — only; śaraṇam — for surrender; vraja — go; aham — I; tvām — you; sarva — all; pāpebhyaḥ — from sinful reactions; mokṣayiṣyāmi — will deliver; mā — do not; śucaḥ — worry.

Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear

Enjoy the spring time.
See you all next week
Nama Priya and Anuradha

Lord Narashimha dev story and new bhajan

Dear class,

Hare Krishna.

Hope the kids had fun during the egg hunt.
The bhajan we taught is here:


There are so many other tunes available, you can search in www.youtube.com for jaya radha madhava

LYRICS:

(1)

jaya rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī
gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī



(2)

yaśodā-nandana braja-jana-rañjana
yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārī



TRANSLATION

1) Krsna is the lover of Radha. He displays many amorous pastimes in the groves of Vrndavana, He is the lover of the cowherd maidens of Vraja, and the holder of the great hill named Govardhana.



2) He is the beloved son of mother Yasoda, the delighter of the inhabitants of Vraja, and He wanders in the forests along the banks of the River Yamuna!

We will continue with Lord Narashimha dev's story and continue with this bhajan.

Home works will resume after this week.

Thank you
Nama Priya and Anuradha

Ramayana fancy dress pictures

Hare Krishna dear parents,

Thank you so much for dressing up kids for the ramayana fancy dress event. I had so much fun looking at the kids in their beautiful costumes. Parents were enthusiastic in dressing the kids and were very creative.

Some kids surprised the parents by talking in the mic.

My camera focus was altered so the person who was incharge of this could not take good pictures. I have put the better ones here. Once I receive the official pictures from the temple I will post it. Meanwhile if anyone has good pictures please comment it in the blog.


Thanks once again!!
Looking forward for more events like this.

Nama Priya and Anuradha

Weekly update 03/14/10

Dear parents,

Hare Krishna.

Hopefully the kids enjoyed the class yesterday. Now we need to make them practice in the class so they remember and tell in some order. I think by now they know 10 slokas from Bhagavad Gita. Next week we will teach a bhajan and revise all the slokas.

We will still continue with our Ramayana story till Rama Navami and we will start with Narashinga story.

No home work this week. Will start home work with new sets of Slokas from next week.
If you still want to keep up the routine you can teach them BG 1.1

Many thanks to Vibha for distributing the choclates for her birthday celebration.

Some tid bits:
Stories for kids:

http://comics.iskcondesiretree.info/index.php?q=f&f=%2F01_-_For_children_-_PDF_format%2F02_-_Srila_Prabhupada_short_stories



Thank you
Nama Priya and Anuradha