BG - 3

Vaishnav Song

https://kksongs.org/songs/y/yasomatinandana.html

Last Sunday the firstsecond stanza was recited - you can continue thatwith third one and theall secondthree one.together.

Bhagavad-gita Verse 15.13 continued

Recap last week's BG 7.1715.13 nicely so that children recollect "Krishna ishow the underlyingvarious thread"planets thatare floating becuase Krishna enters and holds EVERYTHING together nicely.them.

Now in today's session we willcontinue explore that "thread"15.13 by discussingfocusing BGon 15.13GRAVITY

BG 15.13

गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा ।
पुष्णामि चौषधी: सर्वा: सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मक: ॥ १३ ॥

gām āviśya ca bhūtāni
dhārayāmy aham ojasā
puṣṇāmi cauṣadhīḥ sarvāḥ
somo bhūtvā rasātmakaḥ

I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables.

Core Message 

KrishnaGRAVITY personallyis entersvital thefor Earthus to live. It is also vital for many aspects of technology and progress.

🌟 THEME - holds“Thank itYou upKrishna, fromfor withinGravity!”
(BG —15.13 like– an“By My energy I sustain all planets”)

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🪔 OBJECTIVE

Children realize that almost everything they do depends on Krishna’s invisible force keeping— Gravity!
Without it, toothbrushes, chips, water, even they themselves would fly away!

You can make this a dramatic show-and-tell — hold up the planet stableitem and full of life. o when we look at the mountains, oceans, trees, and crops, we should remember:

🌍ask, “TheWhat Lordif isthis insidestarted theflying Earth, making it strong, green, and alive!away?”

Activity “My Floating Earth (Balloon Version)”

           🌍  (Balloon-Earth)
                ●
                |
         (Invisible Thread)
                |
        ┌────────────────┐
        |     Cup Base   |
        |  “BG 15.13” Tag |
        └────────────────┘

🧺 Materials (Per Child)

Ballloon Color Choices

Ball youon Youlikeaballoonwhile

Planet	Balloon Color	Easy Decoration Ideas
Mercurydown	Grey	Rockynever dotslands — game over
Venus9	Yellow-orange🌧️ Rain & rivers	SwirlyBrings cloudswater down, keeps flow	No rain, no rivers — world dries
Earth10	Blue🛌 Sleeping	GreenKeeps continents
Marsbed	Red	Polardrift caps
Jupiter	Orange	Brown stripes
Saturn	Gold	Paper ring strip taped around middle
Uranus	Light blue	Thin white ring
Neptune	Dark blue	Tiny white cloud streaks
Sun	Bright yellow	Rays drawn outward on tag cardasleep!

💬 PreparationTeacher forprompt: Teachers“Who can think of one more thing you couldn’t do without gravity?”
(Watching TV, painting, etc.)

Give

1. a

   Pre-punch holes in cups.

2. Cut threads ≈ 20 cm long.

3. Inflate balloons justchance to palm-sizeevery sochild theyto aresay light.

4. Tie knots tightly.

5. Have a few spares ready (some pop).

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🪐 Step-by-Step Instructionssomething.

1Activity · Color the Planet

Draw continents (green) and oceans (blue).
If baloon is earth then mark a tiny ❤ — “My home on Krishna’s Earth.”

2 · Attach the Invisible Energy

Tie or tape one end of the black thread around the balloon’s knot.

3 · Create the Base

Make a small hole in the bottom of the cup.
Pass the other end of the thread through and tape it inside so that the balloon- floatsNo 1Breakfast inch above the rim.today

NoteMaterials -needed

If

Light roomweight permitsthings hangthat thewe can lift secretly with a invisible thread. Plastic plate, spoon, fork, tissue paper. foam balls representing rasgulla etc.

Arrangement

On one table arrange a Breakfast plate. Plastic or Foam plate. One Spoon. One Fork. Three potato chips. All of them must be tied to one invisible thread from the ceilingceiling. This tied to the thread setup must be kept ready but will be shown later.

First arrange the Breakfast plate without thread. Ask one student to come forward and have breakfast. Let him eat the chips.

Teachers: Now Krishna will Switch off Gravity in five mins. Tell then let us take a break. This will give time for you to arrange the Other Breakfast plate (with threads).

Once ready ask another student to come. As soon as he tries to touch the Chip the hidden volunteer must pull it up :-) Next he must pull the plate, spoon, fork etc. He can move them up and down. Children will have beautifula floating solar system. If not use cups.blast.

4Give ·one Addmore child a chance.

Reflection : Without Krishna's gravity we cannot even have our Breakfast.

Story - The descent of Mother Ganga

✴️ Many children know about the VerseMaha TagKumbha that happened in Jan-2025. Ask them what they know. Did anyone go.

PasteTell them we will understand why millions take a bath in the printedGanga versedaily. onTell the cup’s outer side. Alternately you can also write with a Pen on the Cup "gām āviśya ca bhūtāni"

Message to Parents

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🌞 BPSS Sunday Class – “Floating Planet Craft” (BG 15.13)

🌸 Dear Parents,
This Sunday our Bhakta Prahlad Sunday School children will learn a wonderful truth from the Bhagavad-gītā:

“I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit.” (BG 15.13)

Through a science + bhakti activity called “The Floating Planet Craft,” children will see how every planet—Mercury to Neptune—floats becauseStory of Krishna’Mother Ganga's invisible energy (ojasā).

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🪐 What to Send with Your Childdescent.

Please sendread below sections from Bhagavatam nicely to tell the story.

1- https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/5/17 (verses 1 to 4)
2- SB Canto 9 Chapters 8–9 (read relevant sections)

Gist

1. oneThe smallDivine roundBeginning balloon— (5–6How inch)Gaṅgā inCame anyInto colorthe your child likes.
They can choose their favourite planet, and we’ll have many “worlds” floating together in class!

Suggested colors	Planet idea
Grey / Silver	Mercury
Yellow / Golden	Venus or Sun
Blue	Earth
Red	Mars
Orange / Brown	Jupiter
Gold (with paper ring)	Saturn
Light Blue	Uranus
Dark Blue	Neptune

Also bring:Universe

• 1Once, paperLord cupViṣṇu (forappeared theas base)Vāmana, a beautiful dwarf brāhmaṇa, before King Bali Mahārāja.

• AVāmana asked for just three steps of land.

• With two steps, He covered the entire universe — earth, sky, and heaven.

• The tip of His toe pierced the covering of the universe, allowing a few sketchdrops pens or markers
  (We’ll provideof the thread,Causal tape,Ocean to flow in.

• These drops became the sacred Gaṅgā, the Viṣṇu-pādodaka — water that touched the Lord’s feet.

• Lord Śiva received those divine waters on his head to break their force and verseheld tags.)them there for a thousand celestial years.

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🌈2. LearningKing outcomeSagara and His Sixty Thousand Sons

Children

will:
✨ Discover why planets “float” in space
✨ Understand Krishna’s sustaining energy
✨ Take home their own “planet” as a reminder of BG 15.13

• WeGenerations look forward to a joyful and devotional session together!
  🌸 “By Krishna’s energy, the world is held.”

  — BPSS Team
  ISKCON Dhanori

Story - Varaha lifts Earth

✴️ Teaching Bridge

Say to the children:

“Sometimes the Lord holds the Earth invisibly — like the power that keeps gravity working and trees growing.
But once, long ago, He showed it visibly — when the Earth had fallen into the ocean, and He personally came as Varāha, the divine boar, to lift her up!”

Hiranyaksha was a powerful demon. At the time of his birth unlucky omens appeared everywhere. Violent winds uprooted trees, volcanoes erupted and inky clouds rained endlessly as lightening slashed the sky. Owls screeched fiercely, wolves howled at the moon and trembling cows gave blood instead of milk.

Hiranyaksha grew to be as large as a mountain. His golden crown appeared to kiss the sky. The earth quaked as he walked. Greater than his height was his pride, but even greater was his greed. He mined so much gold from the Earth that the planet lost its balance, fell out of orbit and plunged into the ocean at the bottom of the Universe.

The proud Hiranyaksha dived into the ocean, terrifying all the sea creatures as he whirled his golden club. He was eager to fight and looked for Varuna, the lord of the waters. Coming face-to-face with Varuna, he challenged him to combat.

“I have stopped fighting now due to old age,” said Varuna. “However, you are so expert in fighting that the only person equal to you is Lord Vishnu himself. When you meet him, he will destroy your pride and you will lie down to sleep on the battlefield.”

Not caring for the words of Varuna, Hiranyaksha left in search for his enemy. Meanwhile, Lord Vishnu, in His form as a huge red boar, entered the cosmic ocean. Sniffing through the mud at the bottom, He found the earth planet. Then, lifting it on His two white tusks, He rose out of the water.

Hiranyaksha was waiting, very angry. “Oh amphibious beast,” he cried, “this Earth is mine. Today I will please my demon friends by smashing your skull.”

Lord Varaha was concerned to protect Mother Earth and so raced through space with the planet on His tusks.

Hiranyaksha followed him shouting “Coward! Come back! Come back!”

Lord Varaha is in charge of the law of gravity. Making the Earth very light, he gently placed her on the surface of the sea where she floated like a turquoise ball.

With the earth now safe, Varaha turned to Hiranyaksha and laughed mockingly, “I am indeed the beast out to kill dogs like you. I am not afraid for you are a mortal, bound by the laws of death. Give up your foolish talk and fight.

Hiranyaksha, trembling with anger and hissing like a cobra, sprang at the Lord with his golden club. Varaha dodged the blow and struck out with His own mace. As the fight raged on, both were injured and the smell of blood increased their fury.

From up on high the residents of the heavens watched this terrible fight. They begged Lord Varaha “please, do not play any longer with this wicked demon. Finish him off quickly.”

Lord Varaha glanced lovingly at His devotees, then sprang at Hiranyaksha, aiming His mace at the demon’s chin. But Hiranyaksha knocked the mace from Varaha’s hand and sent it spinning deep into space.

The demigods cried in alarm, ‘Alas! Alas! What will happen know?”

Lord Varaha called for His famous disc weapon and it appearedlater, in the sky,dynasty razor-sharpof Rohita, appeared King Sagara, born with poison in his body (sa = with, gara = poison).

Sagara was powerful and whirlingrighteous; likehe aperformed circularmany saw.Aśvamedha yajñas (horse sacrifices).

SeeingIndra, this,feeling Hiranyakshathreatened, exploded with fury. Glaring atstole the Lordsacrificial withhorse burningand eyes, he hurled his mace, screaming “Now you are slain!”

The Lord deftly knockedhid it awayunderground withnear HisKapiladeva, leftan foot.incarnation Then coolly and calmly He said, “Pick up your weapon and try again?”

Roaring like a lion, the demon again hurled his mace. But the divine boar easily caught it just like a hawk catches a mouse. He offered it to the demon. “Why don’t you try again?” He asked.

Hiranyaksha became ashamed and angry. Taking instead a flaming trident, he hurled it with all his might towardsof the Lord.

VarahaSagara’s 60,000 sons, born from his wife Sumati, dug deep into the earth searching for the horse — their digging created the Sāgara Ocean.

They found Kapiladeva in meditation and, misunderstanding Him, accused Him of theft.

Their offense led to their destruction — they were burnt to ashes by Kapila’s glance.

Kapila, however, promised that they could be delivered by the touch of Gaṅgā’s water.

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3. The Line of Devotion Continues

• Sagara’s grandson Aṁśumān found the horse and prayed humbly to Kapiladeva.

• Kapila advised that only the descent of Gaṅgā could purify the ashes.

• Aṁśumān tried to bring her, but failed.

• His son Dilīpa also attempted, but failed.

• Then came Bhagīratha, whose name would be remembered forever.

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4. Bhagīratha’s Great Austerity

• Bhagīratha left his kingdom and performed severe penances for thousands of years.

• Finally, Mother Gaṅgā appeared before him and agreed to descend — but with two conditions:

  1. Her force was so great that it could destroy the earth; someone must control it.

  2. She didn’t want to carry away the sins of those who would bathe in her.

• Bhagīratha promised:

  • Lord Śiva would bear her mighty current.

  • Pure devotees’ baths would purify any accumulated sin.

• Then he performed austerities to please Lord Śiva, who is Āśutoṣa — easily cut it into seven pieces with His razor-sharp disc.pleased.

• UsingŚiva caught Gaṅgā in his magicalmatted powerslocks, then gently released her streams.

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5. Gaṅgā’s Journey on Earth

• Gaṅgā followed Bhagīratha’s chariot through mountains, forests, and plains.

• Her waters sanctified all places she passed.

• Finally, she reached the demon became invisible. Fierce winds blew from all directions: stones dropped out of the sky; angry clouds poured down blood, urine, hairocean and bones;flowed armies of fierce demons appeared as if from nowhere riding on phantom horses and elephants.

  Using His own mystical powers, the Lord dispelled the demon’s magic. Still Hiranyaksha did not give up. He ran updown to the lord,nether embracedregions Him(Pātāla), where the ashes of Sagara’s sons lay.

• As her waters touched them, the sons of Sagara were freed and triedascended to crushheaven.

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Reflection:

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Ganga Jal Purification

Optional activity - Bring one bottle of Ganga Jal and put a few drops on every student.

 

Conclude class with thisa demon long enough.”

Casually, He slapped Hiranyaksha at the baserecap of hiseverything ear.we Hiranyaksha’s body quivered; his eyeballs bulged out of their sockets; and he fell down dead like a huge tree cut down by a hurricane.discussed

Lord Varaha placed the earth back into its correct orbit. The demigods were overjoyed and praised the Lord, “You are not forced like us to take your birth but you do so by your own free will. You appear in a form just suitable to perform your mission of rescuing the Earth from a dirty place".