Janki Priya
What a child learns early, stays
जानकी प्रिया
Sanskar classes for children of six to fourteen, taught by Janki Priya Mataji - stories, shlokas and the quiet habits of character, learnt at the age when they take root.
Most of what a person carries for life is picked up before they turn fourteen. Janki Priya is the community's class for exactly those years.
Janki Priya Mataji teaches the children herself. What passes between a teacher and a room of small children is not a syllabus - it is the stories they will retell, the verses they will still know at fifty, and the unspoken lesson of an adult who is entirely present with them.
Nothing about it is a school. There are no marks, no tests and no fee. A child comes, sits with the others, and week by week the tradition stops being something their parents do and starts being something that is theirs.
What makes it Janki Priya
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Small children, small circle
The class is for children of roughly six to fourteen. Young enough that what they learn here settles in for good.
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One teacher throughout
Janki Priya Mataji leads every class herself. The children learn from the same voice, week after week - which is how trust forms at that age.
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Learnt the way children learn
Through repetition, story and song rather than instruction. A shloka a child has sung fifty times belongs to them in a way no worksheet can manage.
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The family comes along
What a child brings home - a verse at dinner, a story retold - quietly draws the whole household nearer.
What the children learn
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Stories
From the Ramayan and the lives of the saints - told, not assigned.
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Shlokas & bhajans
Learnt by heart the old way: a line at a time, together, out loud.
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Sanskar
Respect, truthfulness, gratitude - practised in the room, not lectured.
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Sitting still
A few quiet minutes that get easier every week.
For parents
Bring a child
If your child is between six and fourteen and you would like them to join, write to us. There is nothing to prepare and no fee - a child who arrives is a child who belongs.
- Ages
- Six to fourteen years
- Taught by
- Janki Priya Mataji
- When & where
- To be confirmed - class day, time and venue not yet provided
- How to join
- Jankisharnam@gmail.com