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Balabhavan Class March 2010 Balabhavan Coordinators SATHYA SAI BABA Bharathy Thridandam BBC Announcements: Nithya Sudhakar Seetha Janakiraman Sriram Srinivasan Rama Navami puja will be [email protected] performed by the BB children Sathya Sai Baba was born on November 23, on 3/21/10-Sunday Due to 1926 in the village of Puttaparthi in Andhra the IFAASD Music festival, we Class Coordinators Pradesh. Sathya Sai Baba believed that he was will not have class on March a reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, the great 27th. Please note the date on Super -Senior Class: Maharashtrian saint who had died only eight Krishna Meduri your calendars. Children years before the birth of Sathya Sai Baba. [email protected] who are scheduled to make When Sai Baba was 14 years old, he was stung their presentations on that Aparna Vemuri by a scorpion. He fainted, and did not regain [email protected] day can present in April. consciousness for many hours. When he did Ashok Malavalli awaken, he started acting very emotionally – [email protected] weeping, laughing, and singing songs of god in ------------------------------------ Sanskrit, a language he had not learnt till Senior Class: Festivals of the Month: then. His parents and doctors assumed that he Renuka Krishnan: had gone mad. But a few weeks later, the Mar 3- Sankatahara Chaturti [email protected] strange actions were explained when Sai Baba Prasanna Madabhushi proclaimed his divine identity – that he was a Mar 24- Sri Rama Navami [email protected] reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. Sathya Saibaba then announced that he had no wordly Junior Class: Please visit www.shiva- relationship with anyone. Soon devotees Radhika Chari vishnu.org for more details started flocking to his ashram and singing [email protected] bhajans. Baba also started travelling all over Priya Ram South India. His philosophy for man to lead a [email protected] meaningful life is the five-fold path of Sathya Rama Srinivas (Truth), Dharma (Righteousness), Shanthi March Birthdays: [email protected] (Peace), Prema (Love) and Ahimsa (Non- Violence). Followers of Sathya Sai Baba do not Toddler: Toddler Class: have to renounce their original religion or None Gayathri Vidyashankar convert to another religion. He has said he [email protected] only tries to make every person a better Juniors: Priya Sarathy human being, irrespective of their religion. He Arjun Venkatesh [email protected] has opened many premier universities, schools, Arjun Kumar Archana Sampath specialty hospitals and housing projects many Malaika Sriram [email protected] of which benefit the poor. One of Sathya Sai Adhiti Chandramohan Ramanarayanan K Baba’s most amazing achievements was a Ashok Krishnamoorthy [email protected] project that provided clean drinking water to 1.2 million residents in a drought-stricken Seniors: Registration coordinators: district of AP. Sai Baba divides his time among Kalyani Ramadurgam Panneer Selvam: 3 ashrams - Prashanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi, Yogitha Shastri [email protected] Brindavdan in Bangalore and Sai Shruthi in Supriya Bellur Kodaikanal. He also founded 3 major temples Newsletter Coordinator: in Mumbai (Sathyam), Hyderabad (Shivam) and Super Seniors: Chennai (Sundaram). He is now 83, and Krishna Meduri: None appears in public less frequently due to his [email protected] failing health. By Shreya Sriram 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 March 2010 ISSUE 3 1 March 2010 SHIRDI SAI BABA Class Schedules Class Schedules 03-13-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 03-06-2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Junior Class: Toddler Class: Arts and Crafts Story: Story of Goddess -Rama Srinivas Sai Baba of Shirdi, also known as Shirdi Lakshmi Sloka: No Sloka Sai Baba, was an Indian guru and yogi, -Gayathri Vidyashankar regarded by his followers as Bhajan: No Bhajan an incarnation of God. Some of Sloka: Ramaaya his Hindu devotees believe that he was an raamabhadraaya & Buddhir Senior Class: incarnation of Shiva or Dattatreya. Many balam Story: Ajanta Ellora- devotees believe that he was a Sadguru. -Archana Sampath Maharashtra There are many stories and eyewitness -Nithya Sudhakar accounts of miracles he performed. He is a Bhajan: Ram Ram Bhajo Man well-known figure in many parts of the -Sapna Chandrashekar Sloka: Vishnu Shatpadi 3-6 world, but especially in India, where he is -Nithya Sudhakar much revered. The name 'Sai Baba' is a Super Senior Class: combinationof Persian and Indian origin; Discussion: Kasi, Varanasi, Bhajan: Bhaja Mana Ramam; Sāī (Sa'ih) is the Persian term for "well Haridwar, and Rishikesh-UP Raghavam learned" or "knowledgeable", usually Uttarkand -Latha Sundar attributed to Islamic ascetics, whereas Baba -Ashok Malavalli (honorific) is a word meaning "father; Sloka: Lakshminarasimha 03/27/2010 No Class grandfather; old man; sir" used in Indo- pancharatnam Aryan languages. The appellative thus -Sheela Ashok due to IFAASD refers to Sai Baba as being a "holy father" or Bhajan: Review: Raghavam: program "saintly father". In his life and teachings he Bhaja Mana Ramam tried reconcile Hinduism and Islam. He had -Sheela Ashok Class Presentations no love for perishable things, and was always engrossed in self-realization, which 03-20-2010- - - - - - - - - - - - - Junior Class: was his sole concern. Various communities Toddler Class: 03-13-2010 have claimed that he belongs to them. Story: Royal Mother’s Last Wish Lord Shiva Nothing has been substantiated, however. It -Priya Sarathy is known that he spent considerable periods --Pranavi Maddipatla Shloka: Vakratunda Mahakaya; with fakirs. His attire resembled that of Tvamevamaataacha Senior Class: a Muslim fakir. -Priya Sarathy Some claim Baba was born on 28 03-13-2010 Bhajan: Review of 2 Ram Would you rather be Bhima or September, 1835. He led an ascetic life, Bhajans Duryodhana? sitting motionless under a neem tree -Sangeetha Prahlad -- Tejas Srinivasan and meditating while sitting in an asana. - The people of the village were wonder- Super Senior Class Super Senior Class: struck to see such a young lad practicing Viveka Deepika 03-06-2010 hard penance, not minding heat or cold. By -Lalitha Kodandapani Tulasidas day he associated with no one, by night he --Apoorva Mylavarapu was afraid of nobody. It was around this Shloka: Review Vishnu Slokas time that Baba adopted his famous style of - Lalitha Kodandapani 03-20-2010 dress, consisting of a knee-length one-piece Tyagaraja robe (kafni) and a cloth cap. Bhajan: Bhajo Man Ram; Sri --Keshav Tadimeti Lakshmi Ramana -By Anoodnya Sangam -Latha Sundar 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549- 3940 March 2010 ISSUE 3 2 March 2010 SINDH RIVER KARNA OR ARJUNA The Indus/Sindh River ~Who was the greater warrior? ~ DWARAKESWAR RIVER meaning big river or ocean in Sanskrit is the longest river Karna and Arjuna are the two greatest West Bengal is in the western (1800 miles) in Pakistan and warriors of the Mahabharata. Though both part of India. It has a number of The significance of Ganesh the twenty-first largest river in were born to the same mother, they were rivers that flow across the state. Chaturthi….......continued the world in terms of annual unaware of their relationship and often found Dwarakeswar River is on of the flow. It was named after India themselves on opposing sides. It is interesting major river in the western part Ganapathy is known as by the British as they referred and instructive when we see the different of West Bengal. It is also known the master of (Buddhi) to the whole south Asian sub- roles of these two heroes of the Mahabharata. as Dhalkisor. September Promotions: knowledge and (Siddhi) continent as India. achievement. A challenge There are many parallels between Arjuna It originates from Tilboni hill The following children are was once thrown to brothers and Karna. Both were master archers and had in Purulia district. It flows across promoted to the next class Ganapathy and Karthikeya by to fight their own brothers in the war. A the Purulia district and enters effective September 2009. Sage Narada. The challenge deeper connection lies in the fact that the the south-eastern tip of was whoever went around two felt strong ties to the Kaurava side both Bardhaman District. It then Senior to Super Senior: the globe first would have through friendship and through blood. passes through Hooghly District. Sakshi Madan the fruit first. Karthikeya Keshav Tadimeti went around the world which Karna serves as an excellent example of a The Silai river joins Janani Hariharan took quite some time while The ultimate source of the gifted, generous, righteous and brave Dwarakeshwar River near Ghatal Sankaran Ramnarayanan Ganapathy went round his Indus is in Tibet and it flows individual who was still doomed because of and together they are know as parents thrice and claimed northwest through Kashmir and his loyalty towards Duryodhana. Karna's Rupnaryan River, Which flows Junior to Senior: the fruit. The logic he gave then southwest through affection for Duryodhana led him to assist his into the Hooghly River near Sarthak Madan was that since his parents Pakistan. The Indus River friend in all his actions against the Pandavas. Gadiara in Howrah District. Rohith Sudhakar represented the universe he provides the key water Karna was aware of Duryodhana's malicious The main tributaries of Sukruth Kadaba had gone round them. resources for the economy of plans against the Pandavas. Karna was also Dwarakeswar River are the Aruna Sudarshan Pakistan – mainly the Punjab aware of his own imminent downfall on Gandheswari, the Kukhra, and Shrea Chari Traditionally, the Ganesh province with its tributaries. assisting the evil against the good. But he the Birai. Vinod Krishnamoorthy icon is sculpted out of earth The Sindh River has contributed chose to stand by his friend. Tejas Srinivasan taken from nearby one’s immensely to the wealth of the home for the Ganesha regions around it in Pakistan During the Mahabharata war, when Arjun Toddler to Junior: Chathurthi puja.
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