Hare Krishna!!!
Dear Parents,
Thank you for bringing your kids to Sunday school. We are so happy to see kids enthusiasm in singing the prayers and reciting slokas and listening to the story and answering the questions.
This week,
PRAYERS: We revised “narayanm namaskrityam” prayer that we sing before reading Srimad Bhagavatam and sang “he krsna” and “tapta kanchana” offering our prayers to Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani.
(Note: Please refer to the previous posts for the prayers and their translations.)
SLOKA: We revised the Bhagavad-Gita slokas (chapter 9 : Verse 2) and sloka(Chapter 3: verse21)
(Note: Please refer to the previous posts for the prayers and their translations.)
STORY TIME: Namapriya Mataji taught us “GOD is everywhere” with a very nice story.
Once there was a Guru(teacher), who taught many things about God to his number of disciples(students). At the end of all his teachings, he wanted to test his disciples.
He called all his students to assemble and gave each one a mango and asked them to eat this mango where no one sees them. Every student went in different directions.
One disciple ate his mango behind the school, one went into forest to eat his mango, one climbed up a tree to eat, and others went into a cave, a well, dark room, trying to find a place where no one would see them. Once they ate the mango, they went back to their Teacher.
Of all the students, one student tried to find a secluded place to eat his mango but wherever he went, he was watched by someone. So, after 2 days, accepting his futile attempts, with the mango in his hand, he returned to his Guru very hungry.
His Guru asked the student, why he didn’t eat the mango. Then the student replied that he tried very hard to find a place where no one watched him but wherever he went, he felt God watching him.
Hearing this, Guru was joyful, for at least one of his students understood his teachings and congratulated him.
Dear Parents,
Thank you for bringing your kids to Sunday school. We are so happy to see kids enthusiasm in singing the prayers and reciting slokas and listening to the story and answering the questions.
This week,
PRAYERS: We revised “narayanm namaskrityam” prayer that we sing before reading Srimad Bhagavatam and sang “he krsna” and “tapta kanchana” offering our prayers to Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani.
(Note: Please refer to the previous posts for the prayers and their translations.)
SLOKA: We revised the Bhagavad-Gita slokas (chapter 9 : Verse 2) and sloka(Chapter 3: verse21)
(Note: Please refer to the previous posts for the prayers and their translations.)
STORY TIME: Namapriya Mataji taught us “GOD is everywhere” with a very nice story.
Once there was a Guru(teacher), who taught many things about God to his number of disciples(students). At the end of all his teachings, he wanted to test his disciples.
He called all his students to assemble and gave each one a mango and asked them to eat this mango where no one sees them. Every student went in different directions.
One disciple ate his mango behind the school, one went into forest to eat his mango, one climbed up a tree to eat, and others went into a cave, a well, dark room, trying to find a place where no one would see them. Once they ate the mango, they went back to their Teacher.
Of all the students, one student tried to find a secluded place to eat his mango but wherever he went, he was watched by someone. So, after 2 days, accepting his futile attempts, with the mango in his hand, he returned to his Guru very hungry.
His Guru asked the student, why he didn’t eat the mango. Then the student replied that he tried very hard to find a place where no one watched him but wherever he went, he felt God watching him.
Hearing this, Guru was joyful, for at least one of his students understood his teachings and congratulated him.
Practical Applications:
1. God created this universe and He is in every atom. So never forget God is everywhere.
2. God watches over everyone of us.
Indra begs Forgiveness
We heard the follow up of the story “Worshiping Govardhan Hill”.
We heard how King Indra realized his mistake, stopped the rain, came to Lord Krishna and talked about his pride, begged forgiveness and Surabhi cow from Goloka Vrindavan came to offer her milk for saving her descendant cows in Vrindavan, Indra and Surabhi cow bathed Lord Krishna with Ganges water and milk respectively. Lord being merciful forgave Indra and asked him to return to heavenly planets and never forget who the Supreme Lord is. After satisfying the
Lord, Indra went back to rule the heavenly planets.
Practical Applications:
1. We should not be proud and when someone points our mistakes, don’t get angry but be quiet and realize our mistakes.
2. If we make mistakes, feel sorry and say sorry.
Parents please read chapter 27 from Krsna book to your kids or click the following link for the chapter http://krsnabook.com/ch27.html
Looking forward to seeing all of you in the next class.
Haribol!!!!
Gopala Class Teachers
Namapriya Mataji
Amutha
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