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