Our Activities
It has to be imperative that education should provide a balanced combination of academic programs, skills development, physical education, spiritual, cultural, service, and other extra-curricular activities so that sufficient opportunities are provided for the holistic development of students’ personalities. This cannot be achieved without a dedicated team of noble and competent Acharyas, — as the teachers are called here — which is key to the success of this model. Residential Education (Gurukula) is highly conducive for effective implementation of this model. Nevertheless, connecting students with society (communities) and the natural environment is also essential for integral values-based transformative education.
Students undertake so many activities in their day-to-day lives to keep their skills up. They try to gain mastery over all the activities done round-the-clock to achieve all-around development. At the end of the day, all offer these activities at their Master’s feet because he is the Teacher, Inspiration, and Motivation.
Doing all these activities is fun. They enjoy doing all the activities as it is all designed in such a way that it would help them a lot and give them confidence in life to even the so-to-seem hard tasks. This type of encouragement to students is must as it helps a lot when they later go and get employed. They are all judged on these skills which they have inculcated during their teenage from their Schools or college at this point in time.
We have done the following activities till date.
RAMA NAVAMI CELEBRATION
The Rama Navami celebrations of 2021 was a special occasion where the students made a palanquin for Lord Rama and did nagar sankeerthan across the campus. It was a Blissful experience singing bhajans, chanting Vedas and be immersed in that heavenly joy togetherf
TREK TO HYDER ALI HILL
Trekking is a very good sport and being in Sathya Sai Grama and having so many mountains around, students feel themselves to be very fortunate. They very frequently climb these hills and enjoy that spectacle from where the world is visible until where the horizon stretches itself making an amazing sight to behold. It is so peaceful and amazing to be at that height.
TRIP TO BHOGA NANDEESHWARA TEMPLE
Apart from the temples in the campus, students also very often we visit the temples around. This temple is a great combination of beauty and vibrancy. As they entered, students did nagar sankeertan, seeking Lord Shiva’s blessings, and then, after the darshan, came back, still soaked in that divine feeling.
MONTHLY HOMA
Monthly homa is conducted as part of the curriculum of Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Gurukulam. This signifies the spiritual practices in order to purify the inner self. It also teaches some basics of our age-old tradition of offering gratitude to the deities for all that they bestow on us.
KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI CELEBRATIONS
Lord Krishna’s birthday was celebrated in a grand way. Nagar sankeertan and Pot breaking ceremonies were also conducted where all the students and teachers participated actively. Doing all this not only gives joy but also inner happiness. For a moment, it felt as if everyone had gone back to those days when Lord Krishna would do pranks and have fun in Vrindavan.
TALENT SHOW AT PREM KUTIR
This was a unique opportunity for all of the students to recognise their hidden talents. Such opportunities encourage them to show their talents and rise to the occasion. It also taught them how to work in collaboration to bring out better performances.
NAMAZ ON RAMZAN
Accepting the Sarva Dharma philosophy, students try to follow all the traditions so that they can be aware of all the aspects of every religion. All this is taught during their spiritual study classes. Doing Namaz on Ramzan taught them a bit of Islam too apart from the other learnings that they had from various other world religions. As there were no physical guide, students, with the help of videos did Namaz.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
Figuratively of an institution, birthdays of students are celebrated in all joy and happiness. Praying that may god bless him with long life, prosperity and always keep in him on the good path, the students and staff celebrate it, with all students who had their birthdays in that month cutting cake together.
CAMPFIRE
On the holy occasion of Bhogi, the campfire was lit and all sat around it and shared their experiences. Also to that holy fire, the students offered one bad quality which they wanted to give up so that step by step, they progress to achieve inner excellence.
INTERACTING WITH ELDERS
Experience of the elders and energy of the youth is required for building the nation. Students interact with the elders of the institution to gain more knowledge on how to do day-to-day tasks better.
SERVICES
Bending the body, mending the senses, and ending the mind are three things required to become a better version of ourselves. Service activities are organized very often so that students develop the quality of serving others as and when required.
