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Balabhavan Coordinators The Universal form of lord BBC Announcements:

Universal form of lord Krishna is the Seetha Janakiraman Venkat Maddipatla link between God and the universe as we know Welcome back to the Gayathri Vidyasankar it. The clear inference is that God and the Balabhavan program. I think [email protected] universe are not different from each other. kids and parents had much Krishna shows the universal form four times in needed summer break and Class Coordinators . One time when Krishna was a ready for next academic year with renewed energy. little boy, he was eating sand. His mom saw Super -Senior Class: Krishna Meduri and gave him a big slap and said “OPEN YOUR Please mark your calendars [email protected] MOUTH!” When he opened his mouth his for our annual: mother, Yasodha, saw the universe. That is one Senior Class: time when Lord Krishna showed his universal Saraswathi pooja on Radhika Chari Hema Rangaswamy form. 10/2/2011- 4.00pm - 5:30pm [email protected] The second time Arjuna had to fight a Please respond to the evite Junior Class: battle with his relatives. Krishna gives his that was sent earlier. Please Srinivas divine vision to Arjuna as a gift. Arjuna sees send absent notifications, if Hema Santhosh your child is going to be [email protected] Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha and Karna killed absent for BB class. and without the gift of Lord Krishna’s vision he Toddler Class: wouldn’t have seen it. Krishna also showed his Prasanna Madabushi universal form to Bhishma when he was lying Sushma Natarajan BBC TEAM on his deathbed of arrows and to Karna after [email protected] he was shot by Arjuna and was about to die. Registration coordinators: The universal form of Lord Krishna is called Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam “VISHWARUPA”. October Birthdays: [email protected] - Nikitha Gopal Newsletter Coordinator: Toddler: Krishna Meduri: Happy Deepavali to all of you Akshara Madabushi [email protected] Sadhika Kumar

Juniors: Akhilesh L. Genneri Festivals of the Month: Prathik Kannan Priyanka Samavedam

 10/6/11 - Vijaya Dashami Shruti Chari  10/26/11- Seniors: Please visit: Mukta Phadnis www.-.org for Rengashree Muralidharan Shreya Sriram more details Super Seniors:

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Class Schedules Why did Krishna not fight in the Class Schedules Kurukshethra war 10-1-2011 ------10-1-2011 ------This is a question that has been asked Super Senior Class: many times - Why did Krishna, an incarnation Toddler Class: of Vishnu not destroy the Kauruvas with His Story: Veda Purusha, Six angas unlimited might? Story: Krihna/Sudama Lord Vishnu has, whenever evil begins to of Veda and Four UpAnagas of Sneha/Sucheth Koppa get too strong, born on Earth to destroy evil Veda and as a mortal creature and give evil men Sloka: Yaa Kundendu, Karaagre what they deserve. It has to do with karma. Lalitha Kodandapani Surendar Thaneer/Archana Dhuryodhana sinfully tried to Kill  Sloka: Sharada bhujangam Bhajan: Sharadhe Sharadhe (pg Bheema  Kill the and Kunti in the Lalitha Kodandapani 24)) house of lack Bhajan: Review Jag Sukh Karini, Shrinath Shenoy/Arundathi  Cheat the Pandavas at the game of dice Jaya Saraswathy Mahalakshmi ------ And finally, keeping the Pandavas Viji Ramanarayanan 10-15-2011 ------from reclaiming their throne All these sins and more Dhuryodhana ------Toddler Class: committed and he became destined to be 10-15-2011 ------Super Senior Class: doomed .The Pandavas, however, did Story: Ayyappa countless good deeds and gained merit because of it. Krishna simply let their own Story: Music, Dance, Literature, Ramachandran Gurumoorthy bad conduct destroy the Kauruvas. Then the Drama, Poetry, Mythology and Sloka: Sri Stotram 1, Pandavas could simply regain their throne. Every mortal has to go through three kinds of Folklore Lakshmim Ksheera troubles. 1. Troubles caused by sins of Ashok Malavalli Chandrasekar Sundarraman/ previous births. 2. Problems that are naturally caused (like tornadoes and Sloka: Nirvanashatkam Srilekha tsunamis). 3. Troubles that are of the body Sheela Malavalli Bhajan: Radhika Manohara (like sickness). Krishna wanted to keep out from interfering with this natural principle. Bhajan: Ananda Sagara Madanagopala (pg 17); Anjaneya There is a third reason Krishna did not Muralidhara; RamaNa Veera (pg 31) eliminate the Kauruvas himself. Vishnu laid out laws for mortal creatures and himself Mukunda Madhava Santosh Sahoo/Meena when he was born on Earth. Even in Rama Latha Sundar 10-8-2011 ------avatar, he used the power of a mortal body instead of the invincible divine power he 10-8-2011 ------Junior Class: had. To use his divine powers too often while Senior Class: in human form would be to break those Story: Bheema meets Story: Marriage of Muruga to rules. Seetha Janakiraman The fourth and last reason is that Valli. Story around Arupadai Krishna, as the supreme lord of the universe, Veedu - Thiruthani Sloka: Rev:Bilvashtakam 1 - 4 has to be impartial to all creatures. If Seetha Janakiraman Vijaya Purohit Krishna annihilated the entire Kauruvas Sloka: Lakshminarasimha army, then that rule would have been pancharatnam Bhajan: Veera Maruthi (pg 31); broken. So Krishna showed no partiality to Vanishree Kadaba Anjaneya Raghuveera (pg 31) any of the living creatures. These are the four very good reasons Bhajan: Humko Man Ki Vijaya Purohit that Krishna decided to withhold his strength Dena (pg 32)

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More Questions! Questions of the Month The Difference between Knowldedge and Wisdom 4. Who was the son of Jamadagni and Renuka? (Hint: 1. This festival marks the day he went on a rampage against that Narakasura was killed at Knowledge is information gained The significance of Ganesh the evil Kshatriyas) Chaturthi…...... continued the hands of , through education and experience. Effective use of Knowledge according to the code of Krishna’s wife. Dharma for the benefit of God’s creations is Ganapathy is known as Wisdom. For example, learning that rain is the master of (Buddhi) September Promotions: knowledge and (Siddhi) forecasted for a particular day would be considered as knowledge. Using an umbrella on achievement. A challenge The following children are was once thrown to brothers promoted to the next class that particular day to keep dry would be considered as Wisdom. Knowledge is always Ganapathy and Karthikeya by effective September 2009. Sage Narada. The challenge obtained or gained while Wisdom is developed was whoever went around Senior to Super Senior: over time. the globe first would have Sakshi Madan 5. Name the avatar of Vishnu the fruit first. Karthikeya Keshav Tadimeti Another example relevant to Hinduism can be gathered from Bhagavad-Gita. In the who is half-lion and half-man. went around the world which Janani Hariharan 2. Deepavali literally means (Hint: He emerged from a took quite some time while Sankaran Ramnarayanan Gita, Lord Krishna teaches us that the path to “array of ____”. pillar in order to save his Ganapathy went round his salvation includes conducting duties without attachment to the fruits of the actions. devotee Prahlada) parents thrice and claimed Junior to Senior: the fruit. The logic he gave Sarthak Madan Understanding and learning this teaching would be considered as knowledge. Wisdom would be was that since his parents Rohith Sudhakar represented the universe he Sukruth Kadaba the application of this knowledge to attain had gone round them. Aruna Sudarshan Salvation.

Shrea Chari Traditionally, the Ganesh Vinod Krishnamoorthy icon is sculpted out of earth Tejas Srinivasan taken from nearby one’s

3. Who is the father of home for the Ganesha Toddler to Junior: Narakaasura? (Hint: his mother Chathurthi puja. After Suravi Hingorani worshipping the divinity in is Bhoomi Devi) Malaika Sriram 6. Who is the god of wealth this earth icon, it is returned Shravanthi Bala (Hint: It says god, not to Earth by immersing it in a Pranavi Maddipatla goddess) nearby body of water. This

cycle represented the cycle New Admissions: of creation and dissolution in

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