September 15, 2021

Notes by Aarya Mishra

Review

Shankarji started the first class of the year with a review of our learnings from last year. Last year, our subject was learning the qualities of admirable people by learning some of the 108 names of Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. 

Introduction

This year instead of learning of more names of Gurudev, we will be studying 9 essential virtues to be happy all the time. He also spoke about how we of course would be learning how to use/live these virtues in life as well.

Icebreaker

Since this was our first class and there were some new students too, Shankarji had planned a game/icebreaker.  The person called on would state his or her name, grade, and where they live and then they had to act out their their favorite activity. We had kids acting out reading, dancing, drawing, swimming etc. It was a lot of fun to know about others.

Discussion

Shankarji asked the class to share what was the most difficult thing happening in everyone’s life. A lot of people talked about their troubles in school with friends or bullies and COVID. It was good to know in a way that we all have similar problems and everyone is dealing with them.

RAW

Our RAW is that for the next class, we have to have a pot of soil and seeds of any kind.