Why stories of Indian Gods?

Stories hold attention and the attention can then be used to infuse character building lessons without sounding boring or preachy. But then one may ask, why stories of Gods and Goddesses? Why not any story based on moral science?

In a world characterised by constant change which is perplexing, ambiguous, and confusing, the only constant thing across civilisations has been notions of God. This is a story that has never changed though the retelling, recounting and representing of the tales of God have created a million imageries.

Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's travel, Pied Piper of Hamelin, Harry Potter, LOTR belong
to a particular time or climb, socio-culture context and some of these stories disappear with time and are replaced by newer ones. The ones that endure become legends. However, all stories of Gods are already legendary.

They never age, they never date, they never go out of circulation and therefore become the most reliable, dependable tools for imparting the finest of social, ethical, and moral values in children. Grandmothers' tales predominantly are tales of Gods and these have a lion's share in character development of the child.

Choomantraa will be a station for legends, a godown for enduring symbols of Indian civilization and stories around them.

The power of magic!

Cognitive psychologists have demonstrated for the first time that when something surprises a baby, like an object not behaving the way a baby expects it to,
activates the brain and generates questions about what they are about to
discover. The baby not only focuses on that object, but ultimately learns more
about it than from a similar yet predictable object.

Infants have innate knowledge about the world and when their expectations are defied, they
learn best, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found.

An interesting experiment throws light on this further. The researchers showed the babies both surprising and predictable situations regarding an object. For instance, one group of infants saw a ball roll down a ramp and appear to be stopped by a wall in its path. This is predictable. Another group saw the ball roll down the ramp
and appear to pass, as if by magic, right through the wall.

When the researchers gave the babies new information about the surprising ball, the
babies learned significantly better. In fact, the infants showed no evidence of
learning about the predictable ball. Furthermore, the researchers found that the babies chose to explore the ball that had defied their expectations, even more than toys that were brand new but had not done anything surprising.

 The researchers found that the babies also wanted to understand the surprising balls better.
For instance, when the babies saw the surprising event in which the ball
appeared to pass through the wall, they tested the ball's solidity by banging it on the table. But when babies saw a different surprising event, in which the ball appeared to hover in mid-air, they tested the ball's gravity by dropping it onto the floor. These results suggest that babies were testing specific
hypotheses about the objects' surprising behaviour.

Combining the power of magic with Indian spirituality

The choo of Choomantraa is the magic and the mantraa is spirituality.

Superman, Spiderman and He-man are depictions of magic that a human being is capable of.
This is superpower. And Gods have just that. Superpowers. And children look to superpower in order to learn the ordinary.

An ordinary ball with magical powers becomes an object of observation for the innocent mind. Lord Krishna's leelas, Lord Hanuman's ashta siddhis become sources of imagination, creativity and intense learning.

Choomantraa products are carefully curated to combine the science of magic with the art of
storytelling to develop the left and right brain simultaneously.

 

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