Celebration of Guru Purnima
Classes: VIII – X 2018-2019
‘Guru Purnima’ is celebrated in India as a tribute to Gurus. Guru Purnima
is basically the festival of ‘seekers’ who seek the divine knowledge from their
Gurus. Guru is one who dispels the
darkness of ignorance in his disciples. Guru is one who knows God and who shows
the way to Him. ‘Guru Purnima’ is traditionally celebrated by Hindus on the
occasion of Maharshi Veda Vyasa’s birthday on every Ashada Pournami.
We celebrated ‘Guru Purnima’ in our school on Friday, 27 July 2018 to
show gratitude to our beloved guru Sri Paramahansa Yogananda with great
pleasure. All the teaching and non-teaching staff of our school, our students
of classes VIII to X, interested parents and well wishers of our school took
part in this programme. We initiated this programme at 7:00 a.m. by
chanting Gayatri Mantra followed by lighting the ceremonial lamp and Ganesh
Bhajan.
On this special occasion of
‘Guru Purnima’, the
teachers and students were blessed to work on Sri Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings
extracted from his books ‘Where
there is Light’, ‘Scientific Healing Affirmation’, ‘In the Sanctuary of the
Soul’, ‘Man's Eternal Quest’, ‘Journey to Self Realization’, and ‘The Law of Success’. We made an attempt to understand and present his
teachings in various forms to the audience such as dialogue, dance and skit in
a very conveying manner.
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda gave
simple techniques to realize the God through meditation. Sri Paramahansa
Yogananda’s teachings were available in more than 245 books to enlighten the
people through the scientific healings of Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga is a traditional,
spiritual and specific technique of meditating. So, mediation was included as a
part of our program and we
all meditated in three shifts for ten minutes each during the entire programme.
The students of classes VIII to X chanted slokas from Srimad Bhagavad-Gita and
sang bhajans to honour and worship guru.
The programme was ended by
offering aarti and taking the blessings of great gurus. The programme was
concluded at about 9:00 a.m. Later on, the school functioned with its timetable
as usual. All participants and teachers had break-fast, arranged by school and then
they attended their regular classes.
