Dec 13 2015 – Vijayam 7th Grade Class Updates

Balavihar Notes for 11/15/2015 => By  By Aneesh Karuppur

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Discussed following topics: (send via e-mail)

1. Pooja Utensils and Supplies
2. Pooja Vidhi  (Shodasaupachara-16 Steps of Pooja)

Lesson Learnt: Bhagavan's address

Raama lives in the heart of one:

1. Who bows down to Guru and braahmin with respect => Disucssed in the last class
2. Whose hands always perform Raama pooja 
1. Pooja
2. Pooja Vidhi  (Shodasaupachara-16 Steps of Pooja)
3. Manasa Pooja  => to be continued in next class
3. Who has faith => to be continued in next class

Dec 06 2015 – Vijayam 7th Grade Class Updates

Balavihar Notes for 11/15/2015 => ByVarun Punnam

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Lesson Learnt: Bhagavan's address

Raama lives in the heart of one:

1. Who bows down to Guru and braahmin with respect => Disucssed in the last class
2. Whose hands always perform Raama pooja 
1. Pooja
2. Pooja Vidhi (Shodasaupachara-16 Steps of Pooja) => to be continued in next class
3. Manasa Pooja  => to be continued in next class
3. Who has faith => to be continued in next class

Nov 22 2015 – Vijayam 7th Grade Class Updates

Balavihar Notes for 11/15/2015 => By Akshay Vaithiyalingam

If you give everything to god, you can get four outcomes- what you expect, what you don't expect, much more than you expect, and much worse than what you expect.

 24 Teachers

·  Lady with one bangle- be alone and people won't fight. Solitary confinement isn't being alone because it's forceful

·  power of Submission-Completely letting go and following someone else; when you submit, you lose your personal success and responsibility

·  A brahmin is technically a teacher that trains themselves to be able to teach the purest lessons;they can teach the different aspects of life

In the beginning, the caste system started as the job system but because the Brahmins went "the extra mile" they ended up on top. When an apple tree has a lot of apples, it sags down. A person with knowledge bends down, while the person without the knowledge stands high and mighty.

Lessson Learnt: Bhagavan's address

Raama lives in the heart of one:

1. Who bows down to Guru and braahmin with respect 
2. Whose hands always perform Raama pooja 
1. Pooja => to be continued in next class
2. Pooja Vidhi  (Shodasaupachara-16 Steps of Pooja) => to be continued in next class 
3. Manasa Pooja  => to be continued in next class
3. Who has faith => to be continued in next class

Nov 15 2015 - Vijayam (7th Grade) Class Updates

Balavihar Notes for 11/15/2015 => By Ishan Hemmige

1.       Gifts from God ( P.O. Box Mr God)

a.       Archana is to offer anything you have

b.      Likita Japa is Archana

c.       Archana is an attitude of offering to God

d.      There are four ways for something to go

                                                               i.      Same as what you expected

                                                             ii.      Different from what you expected

                                                            iii.      Better than what you expected

                                                           iv.      Worse than what you expected

e.      Take all of them as Prasadam

f.        Have an accepting attitude

g.       It’s also known as an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’

h.      Teachers are all around you

i.         They are in different forms

2.       Bow Down to Guru (P.O Box Mr. God)/Acharyopaasanam (Service To Teacher – Keys to Success)

a.       Guru and Teacher are different

b.      Gurus have ………..

                                                               i.      Wealth of wisdom

                                                             ii.      Wealth of experience

                                                            iii.      Patience

                                                           iv.      Calmness

                                                             v.      Guide

                                                           vi.      Discipline

c.       To Gurus

                                                               i.      Express respect,

                                                             ii.      give sincere thanks,

                                                            iii.      show dedication

                                                           iv.      hold in high regard

Lesson Learnt: Bhagavan's Address

Raama lives in the heart of one:

Who offers all fragrances, food, clothes, and ornaments first to the Lord and then use them a prasaada From the Lord

Nov 1 2015 – Vijayam (7th Grade) Class Updates

Balavihar Notes for 11/01/2015 => By Aneesh Karuppur

PO Box Mr.God:

• Grain Game: separate black grains from the white grains
• You pick out good and bad things in others
• Mind judges people based on qualities/features you pick out in people
• Hamsa (Swan)
• vehicle of Saraswati
• separates milk from water, like separating good from mix of bad and good
• There is divinity in everyone
• There is a meaning for everything
• Dasharatha (Rama’s father) means 10 Chariots: 5 senses and 5 sense organs
• Dasharatha ruled Ayodhya: place with no conflict
• If you control 10 chariots and there are no conflicts in your environment, divinity will manifest
• If we always see good in people, there will be a good impression (vasana) on the mind
• Glories of God:
• destroys evil
• controls everything
• knows everything
• teaches good things
• is omnipresent/omnipotent 

Keys to Success: Humility:

• Humble People:
• Gandhiji
• Malala Yousafzai
• Not Humble People:
• Dwyane Wade
• Kanye West
• Taylor Swift
• Money doesn’t buy happiness or health
• You can become humble when you realize that despite all the material things you have, you may not be truly happy
• You should have a little pride, but still be humble.
• You need to have self-esteem
• Quote from Gurudev: “Once you say you have humility, you have lost it.”
• Amānitvam: Humility (in Sanskrit) 

Bhagavan's Address:
Raama lives in the heart of one:
Whose tongue, like a Hamsa bird, picks up only Raama's virtues in the Maanasarovara of His Glory; meaning, sings Lords Glory in the world