Need help on teaching Hinduism to Kids and Children.

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Om Nama Shivaya.

 

I am involved in a charity of teaching kids ( below age 12 ) and

children ( age 12 - 18 ) in various subjects. I HAVE INSISTED MY TEAM

TO INCLUDE " EXPLORING HINDUISM " AS A SUBJECT, and the committee has

accepted to add this.

 

Since our Kids and Children are less aware of the main pricipals and

beleifs of Hinduism ( like many still beleive in existance of many

Gods...etc..) we would like to educate them on the Basics of

Hinduism.

 

So i request you all to give your valuable ideas and suggestion like

where to start and how to go ahead with this project and what sort of

things to be taught to this two different age groups.

 

Also if any of you can suggest me any book (which iam ready to buy)

which could guide me for this project ( teach kids on the basics of

Hinduism ) it would be a great help for me.

 

Thanks in advance for your great help.

Best Regards

Senthil.

Shivaya nama Aum.

Thiruchitrambalam.

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, "senthil_sym" <senthil_sym wrote:

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> Om Nama Shivaya.

>

> I am involved in a charity of teaching kids ( below age 12 ) and

> children ( age 12 - 18 ) in various subjects. I HAVE INSISTED MY

TEAM

> TO INCLUDE " EXPLORING HINDUISM " AS A SUBJECT, and the committee

has

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My dear senthil,

 

This is a wonderful idea. In fact i had long been wishing

that we hindus should start educating our children about the various

aspects of hinduism. The parents themselves do not know much of

hinduism so what they will teach is doubtful. so our children are

just getting vague information about hinduism.

 

There are no good books on hinduism for children and our education

system makes more Communists than hindus.

 

I feel children below 12 must be given education through stories

(like Dhruva, Purna bhakta, hanuman, kabir, Eklavya, Abhimanyu,

Shivaji, Guru Gobind singhji etc etc).

 

A group should chalk out a programme for elder children, making

gita simplified with the most simple knowledge about God, our culture

and our philosophy. If someone could write a small book outlining

hinduism in a nut shell...and the book is printed and distributed in

all Indian language to the children would be a great idea...but money

is a problem....more discussion on this may bring some fruitful

results.

 

with love

 

Baba

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Yes this is a very good idea.

 

We can explain the stories in our Holy books, & the hidden meanings

behind them. Another good thing is to explain the symbology used in

our scriptures, like why Shivji carries Trishul, what the many hands

of Gods/godesses signfy etc. In fact, most adults dont know this

either, so the book will be useful to them as well.

 

For slightly older children, simplified versions of the Gita & few

main Upanishads would be a good idea. The Kathopnishad, which has both

a story as well as a deep message, would be a good example.

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There is a set of 7 or 8 books titled "Vedic Heritage Teaching Program" for

children written by Sunita and Dr. Sundar Ramaswamy and published by Sri

Gangadhareshvara Trust, Swami Dayananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India. These

books contain stories from scriptures, pictures for coloring, quiz etc.

Further information for these books can be had from: dayas1088 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com

 

OM

radhakutir

 

 

 

 

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Re: Need help on teaching Hinduism to Kids and Children.

 

 

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My dear senthil,

 

If someone could write a small book outlining

hinduism in a nut shell...and the book is printed and distributed in

all Indian language to the children would be a great idea...but money

is a problem....more discussion on this may bring some fruitful

results.

 

with love

 

Baba

 

 

 

 

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Om Nama Shivaya.

 

Thanks Babaji, ShanracerJi & RadhakutirJi.

 

As steps towards my earlier post reg teaching Hinduism to kids and

children, we have started approaching the Sri Ramakrishna Math who are

running a big Educational institution at Coimbatore and my town

Tirupur, for their veiws and help. Also one of my recent friend who is

running a Vivekananda Sevalaya ( has a library, and again teaching

students yoga and teachings of Swami Ramakrishna, Saratha Devi and

Swami vivekananda ) and received quiet a few ideas.

 

But to start with its going to be very tough as the parents of

induvidual kids might have taught their kids in their way and beleifs

and as a general survey taken by us reveals "Polytheism beleifs".

 

In our discussion, we had doubts how can we say God is Unique to the

children, denying or deviating from his/her beleif of misunderstanding

an avatar or a diety is the God.

 

So in General the first conclusion what we have come to is, to appoint

a person who is author for Kids and Children books who can suggest, to

what extend the contents of books has to be for different age groupss,

then apporach vedic scholars and dicuss with them on what can be

included in the contents of the book for each age group. ( again we

will have to face problem on what areas should the content of books

should be ( the shaiva literature or vainav literature or Saktham

literature or in what proportion it has to be taught ).

 

As Babaji and ShanracerJi pointed out reg stories from our literature

to start with and then simplified form of Gita, upanishads, vedas, yes

it is a right approach and its exactly what we discussed, but the main

thing is how to get the simplified version of these without the

influence of the authors misconception, as i have not come accross such

books ready available.

 

So as a begining we have decided within August we should finalise on

the sylabus ( contents ) - [ 1st grade till 12th grade ].and then in

next phase will workout on the cost effectivness and the ways to

implement thro schools or public functions or in any other way.

 

I wish to get more posts from you all to motivate us and encourage us

and guide us to make our project atleast as a smallest success.

 

N.B : as per Radhakutirs message i will sure contact the publisher for

more details.Thanks for your info.

 

Thanks in advance for your great help.

Best Regards

Senthil.

Shivaya nama Aum.

Thiruchitrambalam.