Tag: children

• Certificates Award in HQ

  The Certificates Award function held at HQ in Glen Anil had an interesting component. That was Vidyarthi homa. This is hawan performed by students.

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  13 Jun 2009

  Ashrama, Durban, Gods, Hinduism, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, Scriptures, worship

  children, hawan, Hinduism, Vimokshananda

• Children’s Cultural Festival

  Gurudevji training the children in cultural items The great ‘Gurudev’ Swami Nischalanandaji Maharaj was born in Newcastle. At his birthplace, the Children’s Cultural festival of the Northern Natal was celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year. It was not an accident; neither was it planned. But it had come in due course bringing forth how much…

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  1 Jun 2009

  Ashrama, Gods, Mythology, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, sannyasa, violence, women, worship, Yoga

  arati, Ashrama, celebration, children, culture, devotees, Estcourt, Glencoe, grace, heart, Ladysmith, love, monks, Natal, Ramakrishna, Sarada, satsang, Service, Sita, South Africa, Swami Vivekananda, vedanta, Vimokshananda, Vivekananda, women, youth

• Certificates Award

  Children’s Education Programme organised by the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa through its 14 branches conducts what is called ‘Sunday Schools’ which hold Hinduism for Children Classes. From 4 – 9 years : level 0 which is applicable to students studying in Grades RR, R, 1, 2 and 3. Their activities include colouring, mantra recitals,…

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  12 May 2009

  Religion

  Ashrama, children, culture, mantra, prayer, Ramakrishna, Service, South Africa, Swami Vivekananda, youth

• Boon or Bane ?

  Children like to question. And I appreciate it as an expression of their intense thirst for knowledge. I wrote this given-below dialogue in an easy, conversational style between an imaginary child and myself. This is, of course, based partly on an actual discussion with a group of children, and later written  for Dipika 2008. It is an annual spiritual magazine especially for…

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  20 Apr 2009

  Durban, Gods, Mythology, Religion, women, worship

  Art, children, culture, Dance, Demon, Durban, grace, love, Mohini-attam, prayer, Sarada, Shiva, Swami Vivekananda, Vishnu, women

• Aiding the AIDS campaign

  Today is World AIDS Day! I was pleasantly surprised when I received the communication from the Blogcatalog requesting all bloggers to Unite in the campaign against spread of HIV/AIDS. Yes, thats a wonderful idea as today the thinking people all over the world are seized of this killer scourge problem and are trying to widely…

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  1 Dec 2008

  Ashrama, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, women, worship

  #wad08, children, family, HIV/AIDS, illness, life, medical, news, orphans, Ramakrishna, Saradananda, Treatment, Tuberculosis, Vivekananda