Having completed the 'Key to Success' as enunicated in Vibhishana Gita, which is a part of Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas, we moved on to the second part of our curriculum - 'P.O. Box Mr God' in today's class. Intriguing , is it n't? Kids also had fun doing a couple of activities in the class.
Opening with Prayers, followed by a quick review of the 'Dharma Chariot', we continued the past week's exercise on finding which component of Dharma Chariot appealed to our class, and how this chosen component leads to embrace the other components as well. 'Devotion to God' was the way to go for Suchir, while 'Character' was the starting point for Seema. Rima will begin with 'Self Knowledge' and for Diya, it is 'Samtosha or Contentment'.
The curriculum for 'P.O.Box Mr God' is developed from Ayodhya Kanda in Ramcharitmanas, where Saint Tulsidas has shown us where God resides, i.e., the address of God. Hence this curriculum is aptly titled, P.O.Box Mr God. The goal is to drive home the message that God is omnipresent, and He is within and without us. We all can become an address of God, if we assimilate the values described in Ramcharitmanas.
We began with questions on why we write letters, and who God is, what God is and Where God is. We had active participation with answers mostly in the tune of 'God is everywhere'. Children already got the point! Then they wrote down their answers in a piece of paper, which they will compare with what they come up with, at the end of the year.
God is Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent. If God is present everywhere and with Science telling us that same space cannot be occupied by two objects, where does God reside ? In all of us! God is Brahman. God is the changeless substratum. God of waves is the Ocean, God of pots is mud, so on and so forth. God is thus the cause and is in and through the effects
Kids then wrote a letter to God, mainly to thank him for what they have, which they put inside an envelope that they made during the class. They wrote their self address for 'From' address, and are in a question as to the 'To' address of Mr God. That's where we stopped this class. We will continue with the 'To' address section of Mr God next class.
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