Prince Siddhartha was very kind to people, animals and other living things. He was also a very brave horseman and won many prizes in the country. Although he did not have to suffer any hardships and difficulties, as he had everything, he always thought of the poor people and living things who were working hard to make him happy. He felt sorry for them and wanted to make them happy too.

One day he was walking in the woods with his cousin Devadatta, who had brought his bow and arrows with him. Suddenly, Devadatta saw a swan flying and shot at it. His arrow brought the swan down. Both the boys ran to get the bird. As Siddhartha could run faster than Devadatta, he reached the swan’s injured body first and found, to his surprise, that it was still alive. He gently pulled out the arrow from the wing. He then got a little juice from cool leaves, put it on the wound to stop the bleeding and with his soft hand stroked the swan, which was very frightened. When Devadatta came to claim the swan, Prince Siddhartha refused to give it to him.

Devadatta was very angry to see his cousin keeping the swan away from him. “Give me my bird! I shot it down,” said Devadatta.

“No, I am not going to give it to you,” said the Prince. “If you had killed it, it would have been yours. But now, since it is only wounded but still alive, it belongs to me.”

Devadatta still did not agree. Then Siddhartha suggested, “Let us go to the court of the Sage and ask him who really owns the swan.” Devadatta agreed, so off they went to the court of the Sage to tell him about their quarrel.

The Sage, hearing both boys’ version of the story, said, “A life certainly must belong to he who tries to save it, a life cannot belong to one who is only trying to destroy it.

You have heard the name of Mahatma Gandhiji. For India he is the father of the Nation just as George Washington is the father of America. As a mark of respect for him, we call him Gandhiji. His father’s name was Karamchand Gandhi and mother’s name was Putlibai. He was born in Porbandar, in the state of Gujarat.

It once so happened that a group of people came to perform a drama in Porbandar. It was about the ancient King Harishchandra who was very truthful. Gandhiji saw how much Harishchandra had to suffer to be truthful. This had a lasting effect on Gandhiji. He decided that he would also always tell the truth. Soon truth became his way of life. He made up his mind that even if the truth led him to trouble, he would never give it up.

One day, his father gave him a book about Shravan who was extremely devoted to his parents. Gandhiji quickly finished the book. He saw a picture in which Shravan was carrying his parents on his shoulders, since both of them were blind, and wanted to go to all the holy places. Gandhiji decided that he would also take care of his parents.

Story

Vanity Learns the Lesson

Once, Gandhiji was sailing in a big, foreign steamer to attend a conference in England, and sitting at a desk on the deck, he was writing a letter. A well-dressed European was amused to see Gandhiji who appeared to him quite different from all other passengers on the ship.

The vain European went to his room and taking some bits of paper, started writing nasty sentences and drawing funny pictures to annoy Gandhiji. He wondered why a half-naked, bald-headed and toothless old man should go to England at all. He advised Gandhiji to give up this ‘madness’ of going abroad. He neatly pinned all the bits of paper and came out of the room.

Walking proudly on the deck, he came to the desk where Gandhiji sat writing. As Gandhiji looked up, he handed over to him the pinned bits paper, expressing his disrespect for the ‘black Indians’. “You will find this interesting and useful. Read it and keep it with you”, he said to Gandhiji.

He, then went and stood at some distance to see Gandhiji’s reaction to what he had done. Gandhiji calmly rea every word written by him, raised his head and looked for a moment at the young man. Then he slowly took off the pin and threw away the bits of paper into the waste paper basket under the desk. “I have done just what you asked me to do”, he said, giving the young man his usual smile. “I have kept with me your pin which is the only interesting and useful thing you gave me thank you”.

The young European at once realised his mistake. He had expected that on seeing what he had written, Gandhiji would burst into a rage and create a scene which all the White passengers on the ship would enjoy. Now, Gandhiji’s short and sweet reply went straight to his heart. He realised how intelligent, cultured and humble Gandhiji was. He hung down his head in shame and went back the way he had come.

Kailasaraana Shiva Chandramouli
Phaneedra maathaa Mukutee Zalaalee
Kaarunya sindhu Bhavadukha Haaree
Thuzaveena Shambho Maja Kona Taaree

Story

Amrutmantan

When the demons and the Gods churned the Ocean, they found fourteen jewels coming out of the sea, one after another. At one stage, there came out a cup full of poison. The poison was so strong, that even a drop of it would have burnt the whole world. Now the problem was how to get rid of it! Where to keep such a deadly thing? Gods and demons approached Lord Vishnu, who was their only supporter. In order to show how mighty Lord Shiva was, Lord Vishnu directed them to him. They all reached the Kailasa mountain, carrying the cup of poison in their hands very

carefully. The Lord was seated in His meditative mood. They all pleaded to Him and explained to Him what they had come for. Lord Shiva smiled and assured them. With one gulp, He swallowed the poison. There it started going down this throat. But Shiva knew that, if the poison got mixed with His blood, then with the contact of His feet to the earth, the whole world would burn to ashes. So he did not allow the poison to go down the throat. He kept it in His throat. The poison scorched Him so much that He tried all remedies to cool the burning effect of the poison.

First, he kept the moon to cool it, but it could not reduce the burning. He then put Ganga upon his matted hair, yet it had no effect. At last, Lord Shiva began to chant ‘Rama Nama’, and at once it cooled the scorching of the poison. That is why Lord has moon on His forehead.

Parable

The Devoted Mother

A mother duck and her little ducklings were on their way to a lake one day. The ducklings were very happy following their mother and quack-quacking along the way.

All of a sudden the mother duck saw a fox at a distance. She was frightened and shouted, “Children, hurry to the lake. There’s a fox!”

The ducklings hurried towards the lake. The mother duck wondered what to do. She began to walk back and forth dragging one wing on the ground.

When the fox saw her he became happy. He said to himself, “It seems that she’s hurt and can’t fly! I can easily catch and eat her!” Then he ran towards her.

The mother duck ran, leading the fox away from the lake. The fox followed her. Now he wouldn’t be able to harm her ducklings. The mother duck looked towards her ducklings and saw that they had reached the lake. She was relieved, so she stopped and took a deep breath.

The fox thought she was tired and he came closer, but the mother duck quickly spread her wings and rose up in the air. She landed in the middle of the lake and her ducklings swam to her.

The fox stared in disbelief at the mother duck and her ducklings.

Diwali

Narakasur story – Bhoomi Devi (mother Earth) had a son named Naraka. Even though Naraka was the son of a divinity, he had the nature of a demon. Naraka was powerful and he took pleasure in terrorising the inhabitants of the three worlds.

Narakasura would raid and plunder the kingdoms of the three worlds. He did not even leave the women and would kidnap them for his own personal harem. Narakasura heard that Indra, the king of the devas, had thousands of divine elephants in his army. Now Narakasura, greedy that he was, wanted to possess everything, so he attacked the heavens.

Indra was helpless as he watched Naraka’s minions plunder the heavens. Naraka himself began pursuit of the devas. While pursuing the devas, a glimmering object far away caught his eye. Upon inspection, he realised that the glimmering object was mother Aditi’s (the mother of the devas) earrings. He assaulted mother Aditi and grabbed her earrings.

Now Indra, feeling humiliated at his loss and even worse that his mother was assaulted, wanted revenge and he knew that there was only one person who was a match for Naraka. It was Krishna.

Indra reached Krishna’s palace when Krishna was spending quality time with his wife Satyabhama. He told Krishna about the happenings and begged him for his help. Krishna was enraged that Naraka might lay his hands on mother Aditi and said that Naraka must die for his insolence.

Satyabhama looked annoyed because Krishna was about to leave her. Wanting to please both Satyabhama and Indra, Krishna decided to take Satyabhama with him into battle.

Krishna summoned his mount Garuda (a giant eagle) and made way towards Naraka’s fortress. An impenetrable barrier of magic mountains surrounded Naraka’s fortress. The mountains were such that a barrier would come up from any side that Krishna tried to enter the fortress. Krishna, unperturbed, hurled his mace at the barrier and shattered the entire mountain range in one blow. A downpour of magical weapons rained down on them. Krishna fired multiple arrows and destroyed all the weapons. In this manner Krishna destroyed countless other magical barriers and finally reached Naraka’s fortress.

Naraka’s palace was guarded by the five-headed demon Mura. Mura hurled countless weapons at Krishna, but Krishna shot each one down with his bow and arrow. Then Krishna picked up his flying discus and hurled it towards Mura dislocating Mura’s five heads. Mura fell to the ground, dead.

Krishna challenged Naraka to battle and killed him easily. Bhoomi Devi then sang hymns in praise of Krishna and begged him to take Naraka’s son Bhagdatta under his protection. Krishna placed Bhagdatta on the throne and then freed all of Naraka’s prisoners. The devas showered Krishna with flowers from the heavens

‘I have seen light today, my Lord…I wish that people would celebrate this day as the day of victory of light over darkness…’

Even to this day, Narakasura’s death is celebrated as the victory of light over darkness…It comes on the second day of Diwali as ‘Naraka chaturdasi’.

Story

Ganesha & the Cat

Once Lord Bal Ganesh was playing with his mouse and other friends in Mount Kailash.While playing,the mouse went far from that place and there the mouse saw a CAT,and he was very afraid.And the cat also frightened the mouse very much,and the mouse came running to Lord Bal Ganesh andfriends and told them about the cat. Lord Ganesh got angry and wanted to see the cat and punish who have frightened the mouse. So all of them that is Lord Bal Ganesh and friends went to that place to see the cat.

When they reached, Lord Bal Ganesh diverted himself in tormenting the cat, pulling the cat’s tail and rolling him on the ground and hurt the cat. As we all know that children are able to injure animals but are not aware of what could have happened to them and so what Lord Bal Ganesh had done. Bal Ganesh even did not think about what he had done. Bal Ganesh had tortured the cat in every and all possible ways and hurt the cat.

After hurting and playing with that cat, Lord Ganesh and the mouse returned back to their palace. As Lord Ganesh was playing for a long time, Lord Bal Ganesh was very very hungry and rushed to his Mother, Goddess Parvati for asking Modak. Lord Bal Ganesh searched the palace in search of Mother Parvati and after searching the entire palace Bal Ganesh found Mother Goddess Parvati lying down in a room badly suffering, covered with wounds and dust and pain.

Lord Bal Ganesh asked Mother Parvati about what happened to her and who had done this to her.Who have that much guts to hurt Lord Ganesh’s Mother .And Lord Ganesh also asked the Mother to tell the name of that person and he (Lord Ganesh) will punish him so that he will not dare to do such acts ever after.

Then Mother Goddess Parvati replied to Bal Ganesh that He (Lord Ganesh) was responsible for this situation and he (Bal Ganesh) had only hurt Goddess Parvati . The little Bal Ganesh as surprised how HE (Lord Ganesh) had hurt his Mother . Bal Ganesh didn’t even think or could dream about hurting his Mother .

Mother Parvati told that, the cat which was tormented by Bal Ganesh and his friends was none other than her i.e.,Goddess Parvati and she (Goddess Parvati) knew what all they have done with the cat and you all have hurt the cat a lot and so I also got hurt. The cat was helpless, weak and afraid from your (Lord Ganesh’s) misbehavior.

Lord Ganesh told Mother that ,HE (Bal Ganesh) was not hurting the cat, HE (Bal Ganesh) was teaching the cat a lesson as the cat had frightened my(Ganesh) mouse.

Then Mother told that this not the right way to teach lesson to any one and that to if the creature is helpless and weak. In this Universe, in every creature God is there, I (Goddess Parvati) am there in every weak and helpless being and if any one is hurting them then he/she is hurting the god…………..hurting me.

Lord Bal Ganesh realized the mistake and asked Mother Parvati to forgive him and Bal Ganesh promised,not to hurt any small,weak and helpless creature instead he (Bal Ganesh) and all his friends will help those creatures and beings.

And by listening this Mother Goddess Parvati was very happy that her son, Bal Ganesh had learned a lesson from this situation and he (Bal Ganesh) will not do such mistake in his lifetime and after that Mother Parvati gave her sweet little son lots of Modaks and other sweets to eat.

So from this Story we knew how Lord Ganesh had hurt Mother Parvati unknowingly.

Tell them about our country and National flag & National Symbols. Colouring of Indian Flag.

Our National Symbols

The National Flag – a symbol of Free India is a horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and green.Saffron – courage, White – truth and Purity, Green – life, faith and Prosperity The wheel in its centre is a replica of the chakra , which appears on the Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath. It has 24 spokes – it represents continues motion and progress

The National Anthem – Jana Gana Mana was composed by Rabindranath Tagore

The National Song – Vande Mataram, composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterji

The National Motto – “Satyameva Jayate” means ‘Truth alone triumphs’

The National Symbol – The lions on the Ashoka Pillar – appears on all things connected with Government eg on all our currency notes

The National Animal – Tiger – symbol of power and speed

The National Bird – Peacock – beauty

The National Flower – Lotus – beauty,

krishna birth story, Krishnam Vande bhajan

Song

Come here my dear krishna kanhaiya, maine tere liye hridy ander mandir banaya (2)
For you my dear khaana banaya, butter mishree doodh dahi khoob mangaya
So much delay so much delay tune lagaya, maine tere liye hridy ander mandir banaya
Remembering you everyday main aasun bahaoon,
come to my house come to my house, Aarti dikhaoon ,
why far why far rahe kanhaiya, maine tere liye hridya ander mandir banaya
Come here my dear krishna kanhaiya,

There are many stories associated with this festival. The most popular one goes like this:

When Krishna was playing on the banks of river Yamuna, his ball. got trapped in the branches of a nearby tree.

He fell into the river while climbing the tree to get the ball. In the river was apoisonous snake Kaaliya.The snake took this opportunity and attacked him. But Krishna fought bravely and would not give up.

After sometime the snake understood that this boy was not an ordinary child. Kaaliya then pleaded with Krishna not to kill him and Krishna spared him by taking a promise that Kaaliya would not harass people anymore.

Nag Panchami is celebrated as the victory of Krishna over Kaaliya, the most dangerous snake.

Revision of sloka Guru Brahma

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