| With
the Divine Blessings and cascading Grace of Our
Swamiji His Holiness Parama Pujya Sadyojat Shankarashram
Swamiji, the Prarthana classes in Chennai began
in August 2008. The Chennai Prarthana Centre began
the classes with a fantastic young, energetic cricket
team of 12 students! The Children were taught the
Sabha commencing prayers and closing prayers and
were exposed to the true meaning. They were introduced
to the wonders of the Shri Chitrapur Math, the glories
of Lord Bhavanishankar and the ever flowing grace
of the Guru and the Guru Paramapara.
Within a month of starting the Prarthana classes
we were blessed to have the presence of Parama
Pujya Swamiji in Chennai. During Pujya Swamiji’s
camp, a workshop on puppet show was conducted
by Deepa pachi Murdeshwar and Ruzbeh pachi for
the Prarthana children. The event was wonderful,
encouraging and most of all filled with fun. At
the end of the workshop our Prarthana children
put up their own puppet show with the help of
these two pachis.
The remaining part of the year just seemed to
fly by, being completely filled with wonderful
activities and new learning. The children were
given the opportunities to bring out their views
and feelings and they did a good job at it too,
expressing their hearts content through essays,
drawings and the vimarsh sessions. The children
and (we the teachers too) learned a lot through
experience in the form of value based activities
and games. This exquisite journey of Prarthana
also included Bhajans, arts & crafts classes
etc. The arrival of Raksha Bandhan saw the children
making Rakhees and they ushered in Diwali by making
beautiful lanterns taught by Mrs. Acharya Shilpa
pachi.
With the dawn of Sep’09 begins yet another
year of fun filled personal and spiritual evolution
in the form of Prarthana classes.Our sincere and
whole hearted thanks to Param Pujya Sadyojat Shankarashram
Swamiji for giving our children this wonderfully
designed course called “Prarthana”. |
