Hari OM Yuva Kendra,

We had our first class on September 15th and it was a pleasure to see all of you.  Hope you all had a good summer and are all geared up to have a great school year.

It was great to see all the returning juniors and seniors and a very warm welcome to all the 10th graders.

We have just 2 simple guidelines that we discussed and to recap they are..... 

1.  You are more than welcome to ask questions and challenge any thing that is said in class.  Don't accept any thing as given. However the only rule we have is that we do not do any side ways conversations.  

2.  Please bring to class a) my prayers book b) The Holy Geeta with commentary by Swami Chinmayananda c) and some thing to write with and write on.

As a start we went around the class to try and understand as to what brought each one of us to Sunday class.  The 2 common themes we got that underlined all the responses were "Happiness" and "Success".  Each one of us felt that we had fun, had a sense of community, did things that we loved which all related to happiness and also that we got to learn our culture and values which in turn would make us successful.

We will use these themes of happiness and success as we start our next class.

This year we will studying the first 6 chapters of Bhagawad Geeta and we hope that all of you be a part of this journey and get the best out of this eternal text.

Look forward to seeing all of you on Sunday September 22nd.

Hari OM

Maneesha Aunty and Vikram Uncle