Diving Deep
COLLECTION OF ANALOGIES & STORIES
Description of Sanskrit games
In this article we will describe various games one can play using the Sanskrit alphabet card set and Sanskrit Alphabet chart set to make learning fun and exciting. Refer to our article “How to teach Sanskrit (Devanagari) Alphabet” for the detailed lesson plan.
- Divide the group of students into two.
- Give each a set of shuffled alphabet cards.
- Start the game.
- Group which arranges the sequence first is the winner.
- Test: After the game ask each group to pronounce the letters in the sequence.
How to teach Sanskrit (Devanagari) Alphabet
In this article we will provide you the step-by-step lesson plan of how by using the Alphabet Chart set and Alphabet Cards set one can learn Sanskrit, Devanagari alphabet in 10 easy lessons.
- Youtube video for pronunciation of Vowels.
- Youtube video for pronunciation of Consonants.
- How to write vowels (hindi).
- How to write consonants (hindi).
- Jumbo Sanskrit Alphabet Chart Set
- Sanskrit Alphabet Cards Set
- Description of Sanskrit games
Sanskrit is considered the most complete language as all parts of the tongue are utilized in pronouncing the letters. Therefore it is critical to learn proper pronunciation.
Prayers chanted before reading Srimad Bhagavatam
Om namah bhagavate vasudevaya
I offer my obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva
nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya
naraṁ caiva narottamam
devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsaṁ
tato jayam udīrayet
Before reciting this Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is the very means of conquest, one should offer respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, Narayana, unto Nara-narayana Rishi, the supermost human being, unto Mother Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, and unto Srila Vyasadeva, the author. (SB 1.2.4)
śṛṇvatāḿ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ
hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṇi
vidhunoti suhṛt satām
Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses
Reverential mood towards Spiritual Master
Speaker: Amoghalila dasa
Source: Tamal Krishna Goswami’s and Jagannatha dasa Babaji’s Disappearance Day
I am thinking of one or two incidents I can mention, and some realizations I had from them. One was the last morning Srila Prabhupada was in Bombay, in Juhu. I was fortunate-actually by Giriraj Maharaja’s mercy-to be able to be in Srila Prabhupada’s room then. After about a month in Bombay, Srila Prabhupada was leaving that morning for Vrindavan. Madhava Prabhu and Upendra Prabhu were also there, though Upendra was in and out of the room.
Srila Prabhupada was just lying on his bed. He could hardly move. He couldn’t even
Jagannatha dasa Babaji
Speaker: Giriraj Swami
Source: Tamal Krishna Goswami’s and Jagannatha dasa Babaji’s Disappearance Day
Today is Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja’s disappearance day. He comes in the Gaudiya Vaishnava disciplic succession after Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He was a renounced ascetic, fully engaged in chanting the holy names of Krishna and meditating on His pastimes. For some time, he made his residence at Surya-kunda in Vraja-dhama, near the temple of Suryadeva, where Srimati Radharani used to come and worship the sun-god—or, I should say,where She used to come to meet Krishna on the pretext of coming to worship the sun-god.
Srila Bhaktivinoda
Seeing Krishna everywhere
Speaker: HDG Srila Prabhupada
Source: Expert at everything
“Actually, there is nothing but Krishna all around us. This is explained in the Gita. He is the taste of water, the light of the moon, the fragrance of the flower, the light of the sun, the sound in the sky, the power of the strong, and so on. So one who is actually making progress in Krishna consciousness, he can see Krishna everywhere. At any stage of life, who can avoid the sunlight, the moonlight, the fragrance of the flower, the taste of the water, the sound of the sky, and so on?