Hari Om,
The class blog volunteer for this class was Suchetan. Here is his summary:
This week in Balavihar, we began with yoga taught by Mythri Aunty. We sang our opening prayers, and then started with Surya Namaskar a couple of times before we were reintroduced to the jumping motion to Santolasana (Plank position). After that, we did Surya Namaskar for a while again until we moved on to balancing exercises. We started with the tree pose (Vrikshasana), then to the crow pose (Kakasana), then to Garudasana. Finally, we finished with our concluding prayers and headed to class.
When we got to class, we took a break until 11, and then recapped on what we did last week, but we first talked about the quiz about all the topics learned so far on April 6th. Sri Uncle told us a story to recap charity about a Tibetan Monk Recruit who amongst the 1,000 Buddha statues in the monastery, had a favorite one, the 10th one. When he tried to worship that particular statue by lighting a candle or incense, the light and fragrance went to the other ones around it other than his. As he was very possessive of his idol and selfish, he put a curtain around it, but that plan soon backfired. As he soon realized that his statue ended up becoming black and covered in soot, while all other statues were clean, due to his selfish act. After that, we talked about how charity isn’t the same when you get something good out of it. To move on, we talked about our supreme guru is god and that God is benevolent to all including atheists, irrespective of whether they strongly believe or not. God is the ultimate source and the ultimate Guru. Knowledge flows from God to the teacher, who then distributes it from a secondary, tertiary, etc. source. Finally, to end class, we brainstormed ideas to do in Samskriti.
Homework: Arjavam section in the Values in the Bhagavad Gita book, and brainstorm ideas to do for Samskriti.
Dhanyavadah
Vijayam Teachers (Aparna & Sri)
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