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BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL and SPIRITUAL CENTER of SAN DIEGO January 202011111111 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO January 202011111111 Balabhavan Coordinators What is Karma Yoga ? BBC Announcements: Wish you all a very happy Seetha Janakiraman new year! We would like to Venkat Madipatla welcome you all to Bala Gayathri Vidyashankar Bhavan 2011. [email protected] Please review the syllabus Class Coordinators document sent out earlier to access all the necessary Super-Senior Class: information about the Krishna Meduri curriculum and links for [email protected] various resources that will be used throughout the Karma yoga can simply described as Senior Class: upcoming year. This ‘Selfless Service’, when our ego is surrendered Radhika Chari document along with the before God. It is related to man, animal and Hema Rangaswamy detailed calendar is plants as well. Karma also means to choose the [email protected] available at right path to do right things. Personal religion http://www.shiva- is followed and the destiny is accepted as Junior Class: vishnu.org/bbcalendar.html everything in life.All the acts which are Rama Srinivas completed from birth to death in one’s life is Hema Santhosh Topics of the year: called Karma. Karma yogi does not accept any [email protected] Toddler: Various Gods and wealth for rendering service in any household Jataka tales and even name and fame is not sought after. Toddler Class: Junior: Mahabharata Prasanna Madabushi Senior: Skanda Purana Sushma Natarajan Two things are indispensably requisite Super Senior: Vedas and [email protected] in the practice of Karma Yoga. The Karma Yogi Vedic Culture should have non-attachment to the fruits of Registration coordinators: actions. He will have to dedicate his actions at BBC TEAM Krishnaswamy Panneer Selvam the altar of God with the feeling of [email protected] Ishvararpana . Non-attachment brings freedom from sorrow and fear. When he dedicates his January Birthdays: Newsletter Coordinator: actions at the Lotus Feet of the Lord, he Toddler: Krishna Meduri: develops devotion to God and approaches him Rohan Sahoo [email protected] nearer and nearer. He gradually feels that God works directly through his Indriyas. He feels no Juniors: strain in discharge of his works now. He is Pajaka Lakshmin Anirudh Yadavalli quite at ease. The heavy load which he felt Prahalad Achar Festivals of the Month: previously on account of false notion has Aadya Vijkanth Please visit: vanished out of sight now. By doing selfless service you purify your heart. Egoism, hatred, www.shiva-vishnu.org for more jealousy, ideas of superiority and all the Seniors: details kindred negative qualities will vanish. You will Rachana Madhukara Sarthak Madan develop humility, pure love, sympathy, Kavya Vijaysankar Jan 3 @ 6:30 PM: tolerance and mercy. Eventually you will Anjali Koganti Shri Hanuman Jayanthi obtain knowledge of the self. You will realize one in all and All in one. Super Seniors: Jan 14: Pongal Vikram Thridandam ----- Aruna Sudarshan 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549-3940 January 2011 Issue 1 1 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO January 202011111111 Class Schedules Class Schedules What is Dharma ? 1-1-2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1-8-2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Toddler Class: Junior Class: Story: Story of Veda Vyasa and Story: Story of Veda Vyasa and Ganesha Dharma is one of the most important Ganesha Gayathri Vidyashankar themes in Hinduism. Hindus consider dharma -Seetha Janakiraman the very foundation of life. Dharma is the Sloka: Gajananam,Vakrathunda path of righteousness and living one's life Sloka: Ganesha Pancharatnam 1- Gayathri Vidyashankar 2, Shiva Sadakshara according to the codes of conduct as described by the Hindu scriptures. -Anandhi Krishnamoorthy Bhajan: Ganesha Sharanam, Chandra Shekaraya Nama Ok Bhajan: Sharanam Siddhi Hema Kalyan In ancient India dharmashastras (law Vinayaka, Jaya Jaya Shankara books) provided guidance to people in their -Lalitha Krishnamoorthy Super Senior Class: day to day lives and helped them to adhere Story: Vedas – basis of our to dharma. The best way to know what is Senior Class: philosophy and religion dharma and what is adharma, is to follow the Story: Introduction to 18 - Ram Krishnamurthy religious scriptures such as the Bhagavad gita puranas. Muruga before his birth and the Upanishads or any other scripture and how he came to be born to Sloka: Dashashloki that contains the words of God. Shiva Lalitha othandapani -Ram Krishnamurthy Manusmriti written by the ancient Bhajan: Vigna Vinayaka Veda sage Manu, prescribes 10 essential rules for Sloka: Shiva Panchakshara Stotram Swarupa, Shankara Saambashiva the observance of dharma: Patience ( dhriti ), - Latha Sundar - Anandhi Krishnamoorthy forgiveness ( kshama ), self control ( dama ), _______________________ honesty ( asteya ), sanctity ( shauch ), control 1-15-2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bhajan: Ekathandam, Toddler Class: of senses ( indraiya-nigrah ), reason ( dhi ), Nandeeshwara Hey - Lalitha knowledge or learning ( vidya ), truthfulness Story: Story of subramanya Krishnamoorthy marrying valli, Ganesha’s help (satya ) and absence of anger ( krodha ). Ram Krishnamurthy 1-22-2011 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sloka: Shubam Karoti, Guru Hinduism accepts the concept of Junior Class: Brahma reincarnation, and what determines the Story: Story of -Sushma Natarajan state of an individual in the next existence is Devavrata/Bhisma Bhajan: Shankara Sadadshiva (pg karma which refers to the actions -Rama Srinivas 19); Review Chandra Shekaraya undertaken by the body and the mind. In Nama Om (pg 22 ) Sloka: Ganesha Pancharatnam 3 order to achieve good karma it is important Lata Sundar to live life according to dharma, what is – 4, w:Shiva Sadakshara 4 - 6 right. This involves doing what is right for -Vandana Santhanam Super Senior Class: the individual, the family, the community Story: Fourteen abodes of Bhajan: Review Jaya Jaya and also for the universe itself. knowledge - the basis of our Shankara; Shambho Shankara culture -Radhika Chari Ashok Malavalli The practice of dharma gives an Sloka: Dashashloki experience of peace, joy, strength and Senior Class: -Viji Ramanaryanan tranquility within one's self and makes life Story: Daksha’s yagna, Churning disciplined. of ocean and emergence of Bhajan: Review of Nandeesh- Amrita;Devas approach Shiva. wara, Sharanam Siddhi Vinayaka; Seetha Janakiraman Shankara Chandrashekara Bharathy Thridandam Sloka: Shivamanasapuja ---- Anugraha Panneerselvam - Lakshmi Srinivasan 7930 Arjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549 -3940 January 2011 ISSUE 1 2 BALABHAVAN NEWSLETTER VEDIC CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTER OF SAN DIEGO January 2020111111 Special Thanks What is Dhyana Yoga? Class Presentations We thank all the volunteers Junior Class: who make this program such a success. Our special thanks Dhyana Yoga is simply the yoga of 1-8-2011: go out to our previous Bala meditation. It is seventh of the eight limbs of yoga. It is derived from the Sanskrit root Why do we light a lamp? Bhavan Coordinators, --Reetesh S Bharathy Thridandam, Sriram “dhyai” which means “to think of”. One of its popular forms is the Kundalini Yoga. Why do we do a Namaste ? Srinivasan and Nithya -- Sumana S Sudhakar. 1-22-2011: How do you practice Dhyana Yoga? What is the significance of OM? Attendance Dhyana Yoga is practiced by meditating on a -- Akshaya V single (flow) idea without getting distracted. Why do we have so many gods? Requirements : This helps us clear the mind and be one with -- Priyanka S God and reach a heightened level of awareness. Senior Class: Any child missing three It does not have to be done sitting still or with consecutive classes will be closed eyes. Dhyana yoga can be an active 1-8-2011 removed from Bala Bhavan meditation used in physical activity as well. In and that place will be given Sravana : How characters you addition to its use as a religious meditative have learnt in the past used this to the next child in the practice, dhyana yoga is also thought to calm kind of Bhakti? waiting list. This rule will be the mind and emotions. – Susmeetha S & Anugraha P strictly enforced. Please go through the Guidelines This meditative yoga is claimed to help with digestion and blood circulation and also for 1-22-2011 section of Bala Bhavan Sravana - How characters you website to note the relieving stress and enhancing feelings of well- being. The practice of Dhyana yoga is have learnt in the past used this exceptions and to understand form of Bhakti? traditionally thought to strengthen the mind by how to notify an absence. ---Rengashree M & Shreya S raising positive energy, known in Sanskrit as kundalini , up through the spine. Super Senior Class: Glimpse of Bala Bhavan Significance of Dhyana Yoga: Sri children in 2010: 1-1-2011 Krishna in Chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharatha or Ramayana - explains DhyanaYoga to his friend and disciple, Which is the Ithihasa you think Arjuna. is better in conveying the Shiva also is said to have described 108 morals/conduct/dharma for this different ways to do Dhyana of Mata Parvati. Kali Yuga? - - Akhilesh V & Padmashree M In Dhyana Yoga, it is important to remember three things: 1-1-2011 • Pointed mind – controlling its thoughts; Vaamana or Parasuraama (both of them were Brahmins who • Setting bounds to one’s life to help appeared with the intent of achieve this – doing actions after vanquishing evil Kshatriyas - but weighing and measuring them; and handled the process very differently)? Topics of the Month • State of level-headedness or evenness - Satish C & Utkrisht R of vision – having the nobility to think in Anugraha Panneerselvam terms of the whole world. Aruna Sudarshan Newsletter Editors Shrea Chari ------Shrea Chari Kamakshi Ramanarayanan Keerti Tadimeti 7930 A rjons Drive, San Diego, CA 92126 Phone: (858) 549 -3940 January 2011 ISSUE 1 3 .
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