Morning Prayers Recited:
• Om Saha naavatu (My Prayers, page 6)
• Karagre Vaasate (My Prayers, page 43)
• Sarasvati Namastubhyam (My Prayers, page 44)
• Guru Brahma (My Prayers, page 9, third shloka)
Vedic Chanting:
• Praarthanaa (Chinmaya Book of Vedic Chants, page 3)
• Medha Sukhtam (Chinmaya Book of Vedic Chants, page 35)
• Gayatri Mantra (Chinmaya Book of Vedic Chants, page 5)
• Mantra Pushpam (Chinmaya Book of Vedic Chants, page 170)
Bhajans:
Storytime with Swamiji: We will resume our videos tomorrow (Wednesday), due to technical difficulties.
Art Projects: We continued sculpting our pooja thalis and made the center piece of the lotus out of clay (for our diyas.)
Shaanti Circle Discussion: Boy, has this week started off great! We are proud to announce that our campers successfully passed the four minutes of silence (with an accurate pebble count)! Tomorrow we will try for five minutes -- and at this rate, if we stay calm and focused every morning after prayers, we will definitely make our goal of 6 minutes -- maybe even 7!
We reviewed the story of Prahlad (click here to view the animation) and watched a few short documentaries on Dwarka:
Click here to view Video 1 on Dwarka.
Click here to view Video 2 on Dwarka.
End of Class Prayers: Poornamadah, Chinmaya Pledge
Photo Gallery: July 28 (click here to view)
Comments: And we thought yesterday was hot and humid ... today definitely took the starch right out of us! We closed all the doors and pumped up the air conditioners -- doing most of our work in the main satsang area. Fortunately, this space was comfortably cool throughout the day -- so we were able to focus and get some projects done.
The children finished sculpting their thalis and are now ready for the papier mache process. We had hoped to start the pasting today, but because of the high humidity we thought better of it. The weather prediction is better for tomorrow, so we'll plan to begin the paste in the morning. Instead, we decided to make our diya out of clay. The children modeled a diya in the shape of the inner lotus flower to place inside their paper lotus. Once everything dries, we will paint and decorate with glitter and gems. They will be absolutely beautiful sitting atop the pooja thalis.
Nirmala Auntie started us on the Mantra Pushpam today -- and we are pleased to share that the children did great with their chanting! We are eager to continue learning this vedic chant with Auntie throughout the week.
Also, we are looking forward to our weekly bhajan class with Sheila Auntie tomorrow -- we really missed her last week ... can already feel that tomorrow is going to be a pretty busy day!
