BG - 4

Vaishnav Song

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

Last Sunday the third stanza was recited - you can continue with fourth one and all four together.

Bhagavad-gita Verse 15.13 continued

Recap last week's BG 15.13 nicely so that children recollect how the various planets are floating because Krishna enters and holds them.

Now in today's session we continue 15.13 by focusing on how KRISHNA through MOON nourishes vegetable and makes food available to all living entities.

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.

Activity - No Breakfast today

Materials needed

Light weight things that we 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 ceiling. 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. Ask him to sit on a chair in front of the table, he should not stand up. Ask him to start eating breakfast. 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 a blast.

Give one more child a chance.

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

Story - Lord Chaitanya and his Mango tree

This is a beautiful pastime from Lord Chaitanya's life. The ~~descent~~stress here can be how the Lord is able to grow a mango tree in minutes because controls the growth and nourishing process - he just pressed the acceletator, that's all :-)

Text 79: One day the Lord performed saṅkīrtana with all His devotees, and when they were greatly fatigued they sat down.

Text 80: The Lord then sowed a mango seed in the yard, and immediately the seed fructified into a tree and began to grow.

Text 81: As people looked on, the tree became fully grown, with fruits that fully ripened. Thus everyone was struck with wonder.

Text 82: The Lord immediately picked about two hundred fruits, and after washing them He offered them to Kṛṣṇa to eat.

Text 83: The fruits were all red and yellow, with no seed inside and no skin outside, and eating one fruit would immediately fill a man’s belly.

Text 84: Seeing the quality of ~~Mother~~the ~~Ganga~~

mangoes, the Lord was greatly satisfied, and thus after eating first, He fed all the other devotees.

Text 85: The fruits had no seeds or skins. They were full of nectarean juice and were so sweet that a man would be fully satisfied by eating only one.

Text 86: In this way, fruits grew on the tree every day throughout the twelve months of the year, and the Vaiṣṇavas used to eat them, to the Lord’s great satisfaction.

Text 87: These are confidential pastimes of the son of Śacī. Other than devotees, no one knows of this incident.

Text 88: In this way the Lord performed saṅkīrtana every day, and at the end of saṅkīrtana there was a mango-eating festival every day for twelve months.

Conclude class with a recap of everything we discussed