Sanskar Gurukul Weekly Update

Class Name: Bhrigu Week# 04: October 12, 2014

General Assembly We started the GA with three Omkars followed by the Shanti Mantra.

We all then chanted the Chalisa, which was followed by a short meditation session.

Class We started the class with three Omkars followed by the Shanthi Mantra and before studies prayer.

Before starting Bal-bhagavatam, we discussed Diwali dress-up we are planning for Oct 26, 2014.

Few suggestions for children to dress up are:

Freedom Fighters (Gandhi ji, Sardar Patel, Subhas Bose, etc) Historical Figures (Shivaji, King Akbar, Birbal, etc) Great Musicians (Taansen, Swami Haridaas, etc.) Ramayan brothers (Sri , Lakshmana, Shatrugna and Bharata) Ramayan mothers (Kausalya, Kaikaiye, Sumitra) Hanumanji, Sugriva, Jambavan Dhritarastra and Gandhari Five Dronacharya, Bheeshma, , Ambika, 10. Saints (Swami Vivekananda, Swami Chinmayanada, Adi Shankaracharya, Meera bai, Andal) 11. Sri , Balarama, , , Nanda with Baby Krishna in the basket 12. ------We recapped the story from last week and went on to cover the fact that ’s ministers warned him not to take it easy and kill all the babies born in the past 10 days in all of the land.

Putana, the demon An Asuri named Putana was sent by Kamsa to kill newborn babies. The demon dressed as a beautiful woman flew to Nanda and Yashoda's house hoping to kill Him with the poison. Krishna's mother innocently let Putana pick the baby up and feed him. Krishna closed His eyes and sucked out her life, killing her, without taking her poison. Putana's soul attained liberation due to the benevolent act of offering milk to Krishna and the inhabitants of Gokula cremated the body and were amazed at the Sandal-like scent emanating from her body, which had been liberated by Lord

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Krishna.

Trinavarta,The Whirl Wind When Yashoda was sitting with Lord Krishna on her lap, she suddenly observed that he had assumed the weight of the entire universe. She was so astonished that she had to put the child down, and in the meantime Trinavarta, one of the servants of Kamsa, appeared there as a whirlwind and took the child away. The whole tract of land known as Gokula became surcharged with dust, no one could see where the child had been taken. In the sky, the , being overburdened by the child, could not carry the child far away and Krishna had caught him so tightly that it was difficult for him to separate the child from his body. Thus Trinavarta himself fell down from a very great height, the child grasping him tightly by the shoulder, and immediately died. The demon having fallen, the picked the child up and delivered Him to the lap of mother Yashoda. Later, when Krishna sat on the lap of mother Yashoda, He yawned, and mother Yashoda could see inside His mouth the entire universal manifestation. ------After the story, we took our prarthana books out and recited morning prayers, before meals prayers and all ending prayers.

Homework Complete the exercises on chapter 13, page 7, coloring on page 8 is optional, but always earns bonus ponts!

Announcements Oct 26th is our Annual Diwali Dress-Up Day. You can come dressed as a , devata or any other character from our scriptures like Balarama, Mirabjai, anyone from or . You could also come dressed as any character from Indian history like Gandhiji, Netaji Bose, Bhagat Singh.

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