Hari Om,
We started with chanting OM three times, and continued with meditation, and the opening prayers.
All the kids finished their word search from last week, and took turns to read the twelve names in the word search. In the process the kids learnt the need for transliteration, while writing Sanskrit alphabets (49) in English, which has only 26 alphabets.
We reviewed the symbolism of Ganesha from the last class. Couple of kids questioned how a broken tusk can represent "discard bad & retain good"? Will continue this aspect in next class.
Kids made a small origami booklet about the Ganesha symbolism, and filled in the blanks. After that they took turns to read out each page. The whole class chanted the Ganesha prayer in the booklet.
We heard the "Ganesha pancharatnam" audio of Mrs. M.S. Subbalakshmi one more time. Some of the musically inclined kids enjoyed the audio, and tried to identify the raga of the song. We learnt that Sri Adi Sankaracharya wrote the "Ganesha pancharatnam", and a lot of other beautiful mellifluous prayers.
Then we chanted "saṁkaṭanāśana gaṇeśa stotraṁ" on the last page in prayer booklet; most of the kids already knew this from the previous balavihar classes. We concluded the class with "पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं....pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ" followed by pledge.
We started with chanting OM three times, and continued with meditation, and the opening prayers.
All the kids finished their word search from last week, and took turns to read the twelve names in the word search. In the process the kids learnt the need for transliteration, while writing Sanskrit alphabets (49) in English, which has only 26 alphabets.
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गजकर्ण
गजानन
गणपति
गणेश
लम्बोदर
महेश्वरपुत्र
मोदकहस्त
पार्वतिपुत्र
फालचन्द्र
विघ्नराज
विघ्नेश्वर
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ekadanta
gajakarṇa
gajānana
gaṇapati
gaṇeśa
lambodara
maheśvaraputra
modakahasta
pārvatiputra
phālacandra
vighnarāja
vighneśvara
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We reviewed the symbolism of Ganesha from the last class. Couple of kids questioned how a broken tusk can represent "discard bad & retain good"? Will continue this aspect in next class.
Kids made a small origami booklet about the Ganesha symbolism, and filled in the blanks. After that they took turns to read out each page. The whole class chanted the Ganesha prayer in the booklet.
वक्रतुन्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ।
निर्विघ्नम् कुरु मे देव सर्व कार्येशु सर्वदा॥
vakratunḍa mahākāya sūryakoṭi samaprabha |
nirvighnam kuru me deva sarva kāryeśu sarvadā ||
We heard the "Ganesha pancharatnam" audio of Mrs. M.S. Subbalakshmi one more time. Some of the musically inclined kids enjoyed the audio, and tried to identify the raga of the song. We learnt that Sri Adi Sankaracharya wrote the "Ganesha pancharatnam", and a lot of other beautiful mellifluous prayers.
Then we chanted "saṁkaṭanāśana gaṇeśa stotraṁ" on the last page in prayer booklet; most of the kids already knew this from the previous balavihar classes. We concluded the class with "पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं....pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṁ" followed by pledge.
