Prayers: 3 Oms, Gayatri

Main topics:  Today Patti talked to us about Easwaramma Day. She was trying to organize us in different groups. We started practicing with uncles. aunties and Shruthi akka. Time went very fast today. We are learning through our practice ‘Patience, Waiting for our turn’, ‘Listening’.  

Life application/Home work: Please see all the videos that we are sending with your parents and practice. 

Note to Parents:   

Introduced the types of Duty as swami taught : Social, Obligatory and family duties.

Prayers:

Started the class with 3 om’s. Did a breathing exercise and chanted the multifaith prayers

Main topic:  Duty

Lesson Plan:

The kids shared in class what duties and chores their parents did as children and then we talked about what Swami has told about duty. Swami has said that everyone has 3 types of duties – Social, Obligatory and Family duties. We talked about how each of these duties are important.

Shared a Chinna Katha about Duty is God : http://media.radiosai.org/journals/Vol_03/05MAY01/chinnakatha.htm

Discussed why the lamp shone brighter when the lamp lighter did his duties chanting the name of the lord. Concluded that we should do our duties willingly, with commitment and as an offering to God.

The kids created a chart “What I am responsible for at Home” with a list of 3 duties that they will start practising from next week.

Homework

·       Putting shoes and school bag at their right places as soon as we come back home. Same for rest for family

·       Prayer before food

·       Follow your goal everyday

Note to Parents:

We are learning about Duty and importance of taking responsibility .Please help your child hang their “What I am responsible for at Home” chart in a place they can see and be reminded of everyday. 

Friendly reminder

• Sai Samarpan article is to be submitted by March 23.
• Help our children to achieve their goal of the week.

CLASS DATE: 03/10/2019

Summary: unity of Faiths

ATTENDANCE: 12

Sairam,

class started with 3om’s ,Gayatri mantra and may pole meditation.

students shared what they practiced last week. They continued doing their beds and chores.

We saw a video of various festivals celebrated in Prashanthi Nilayam. It showed how people from different faiths and from different countries come to prashanthi nilayam and celebrate their festivals. 

We brainstormed on how to incorporate  the students ideas into Easwaramma day skit. we came up with the high level flow of the skit. 

Bhajans: we practiced two bhajans with sister Kripa.

http://prasanthi-mandir-bhajan.net/Guruvayoor_Pura_Sri_Hari_Kr.htm

https://sathyasai.us/devotion/song/rama-krishna-tum-ho

Homework:

1.Finish  and submit Sai Samarpan article.

2. Work on the script for Easwaramma day.

Life application: Practice doing  Gayatri Mantra daily. Students also can do prayers  what their family does. 

Practice communicating with  God. They can talk, write, sing …..to God. Come share with us how you communicated with God and how this helps you.

Continue doing their beds and chores.

Reminders:

All the students are encouraged to finish and submit Sai Samarpan article.

we will be having a call on wednesday and thursday from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm to discuss about the Easwaramma day skit. Students interested in sharing the ideas can join the call.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO PARENTS:

1. We would like all the students to be on time by 3.25pm we are staritng the class by 3.30pm.

Class room door closes at 3.30pm.

If any students come late they have to wait outside the door till we finish prayers and meditation.

2. As a parent your responsibility to check the home work ( life application ) which we give them to follow through the week.

Once you as a parent commit to the follow up with your kids the results are impactful.

3. Treat this spiritual learning as a beautiful foundation to your kids who are the future generations of leaders.

Swami has given us the opportunity to be the part of this huge responsibility. Let’s stand up to build this great future leaders.

Prayers:

Beginning prayers led by students. We chant multi faith prayers beginning of each class to show all regions teach same.

Link to multi faith prayers with meaning: http://sairegion3.org/multi-faith-prayers/

Main topic:  Devotion (tip 3)

For the Devotion topic this quarter, we are discussing and taking one practice a week to qualify to call our self a devotee of Swami. 

Recap of last class: We played Cross the river game. The coast guard at the center of the room was not supposed to let the students with bad value label written on them. But they sneak out anyway. We later discussed why and how bad was able to sneak to the other side of the room. The coast guard was not vigilant. We compared this with our consciousness. We need pay attention to guidance of our consciousnesses, do not suppress it but try to follow. Specific example was our mind says to go play video game, but consciousnesses is saying to finish homework first. Do not suppress it and follow it.  We left the class that we will come back and understand what all we need to do to keep consciousness vigilant.

This week we watched a “Mark of True devotee“, story from Uncle lions. We had students walk from one side of the room to other without dropping a lemon that is placed on their head. Though they were supposed chant God’s name, everyone focused on not dropping the lemon. We concluded that similarly we focus on our tasks all day and remember God only when needed. But we all agreed it is hard to have God’s name on lips all day, as a team we agreed that we could associate an activity that we do not miss and remember Swami when we do that activity. So as tip 3 we are going to think/chant or say SAIRAM, every time we eat snack/meal, drink water/juice/milk.

To add science behind it we watched Dr Masuru’s experiment on water. We are 70% water so more we chant the more positive we become from within and sanctify the surroundings.

Note to Parents:

One practice a week to qualify to call our self a devotee of Swami. Students add practice each week.

Tip1: Start the day and end the day with Swami’s name. Swami will count this as 8 hour chanting during night.

Tip2: Keep your consciousness active. Do not suppress it. 

Tip3: To keep our consciousness active we are going to think/chant or say SAIRAM, every time we eat snack/meal, drink water/juice/milk.

Screening Coco

Main topic:

This week Group 4 finished screening the animated film Coco. This film was screened over two class period and will subsequently be discussed about its relation to the human values. This is an effort to show that everything in life can be related back to the inner Sai and to non-compartmentalize spirituality in daily life.

Note to Parents:

Sairam Parents –

We will have regular SSE at 3:30 PM this Sunday, Feb. 10th.

Jai Sai Ram!

-Group 4 Gurus