iGurukulam is Anaadi Foundation's online school for ages 3 to 11: a full school day, live, at home. CBSE syllabus, NIOS certification.
What they study · Stories
A story a day, from the Itihāsas and the Purāṇas
The Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, the Bhāgavata and the other Purāṇas are not a subject on Fridays. A story is told every day of the school year, by an acharya who grew up on them, and the children carry it into the rest of the day.
The stories a child meets
DhruvaPrahlādaNachiketaŚravaṇa KumāraHanumān's leapSītā in the forestEkalavyaAbhimanyuSāvitrīHariścandraGajendraMarkaṇḍeyaBhagīrathaKarṇaŚabarīand hundreds more
How a story is taught
- Told, not read out. The acharya tells it the way it was told to them, and stops where the children want to stop.
- Talked over. "What would you have done?" comes before "what is the moral?". Darśana begins here.
- Carried into the day. Drawn in Kalā, sung in Sangīta, acted at the festival days, retold by the child at home that evening.
- Read in the original, in time. By Level 4 the children read the ślokas themselves, in Saṃskṛtam, with the acharya.
Why: a child meets the person before the moral. The values and the ways of reasoning of this civilisation arrive the way they always did, as stories remembered for life.
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