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-Wake up Blue!

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-Hello Charlie!

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Hello you!

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-It's dancing time!

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-Blue?

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-Blue!

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-Ah!

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Waah!

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[CAT MEOWING]

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-Sorry, Blue.

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Did I scare you?

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-What do you think?

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Did you want something?

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-I just wanted to know
what you were listening to.

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-Why didn't you ask?

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-I tried, but you
didn't hear me.

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-Why are our senses
so important?

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-Because without
them, we wouldn't

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be able to see or hear
or feel or anything.

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Hindus use all of their
senses when they go

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to the temple to pray to God.

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I learned about it
in school today.

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This is a picture of Hindu God
called Ganesha in a shrine.

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That's a special place
for praying to God.

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-What do they do with
all those things?

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-Why don't you come
with me and find out?

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-Zippity-zip,
let's go on a trip!

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-Hello Charlie.

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Hello Blue.

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-Hello Geetha!

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-Welcome to the Shree
Ghanapathy Temple.

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Now when we normally
come to the temple,

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we always wear some
special clothes.

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So would you like to
have some as well?

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-Yes please.

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-Yes please!

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-Right, so for Charlie
I've got a lovely shawl

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and it's blue as well.

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And we've got a
special shawl for Blue.

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And two bangles.

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We have a special bindi or pottu
that we put on our forehead.

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Now would you like to come
in and see the temple?

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-Yes please.

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-Come on.

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[CHANTING]

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-Who's that?

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-This is Lord Ganesha.

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As Hindus, we believe that God
comes in many different forms

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and he's one of the
most important ones

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because all Hindus pray to him.

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And we pray to him to
remove all the problems

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that we have in our lives.

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Many Hindus will have a
statue of him in their homes.

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-Why does he have
an elephant's head?

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-Well, when we
think of elephants,

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we always think of them as
being kind and strong and wise.

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And hopefully, we will try and
bring those things in ourselves

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as well.

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And we know that he will be
strong enough and wise enough

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to help us remove all those
problems in our lives.

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-Why's there so much
stuff all around him?

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-Well, this is a special
place called a shrine

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and it's where we worship God.

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And all the things that
you see in the front of you

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are the things that we offer
to him when we do our prayers.

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And we use all our senses, so
that we can concentrate fully

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on our prayers to him.

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-What are senses?

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-Well, they're the
things that help

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us make sense of the world.

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And so we have five of them and
they are sight, hearing, taste,

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touch, and smell.

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-So I can see the statue.

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-Yes, it's called a murti.

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It's an image of God.

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And you can see all
the beautiful flowers

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and the lamps, the
garlands, and the clothes

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and the beautiful jewellery.

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It makes our sense
of sight happy.

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What can you smell?

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-So I can smell something
smokey and sweet and flowery.

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-Well, that's the
incense and also

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the strings of flowers,
which we call garlands.

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-But I can't hear anything.

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-Well, it's quiet now,
but when we do our service

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then we might play
music or we may sing

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or we'll have the bell ringing
or we might blow a conch.

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-What's a conch?

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-Well, it's a seashell.

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Which is found in India, which
is where our religion began.

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And if you blow in it hard, it
can make a really loud sound

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like a trumpet.

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-What do you touch?

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-In our shrines at home we're
allowed to touch the murtis.

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Here at the temple we're
not allowed to do so,

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but the priest will touch them.

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And we treat them as the most
important person in our lives,

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so we bathe them daily.

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We put new beautiful clothes
on them and all the garlands

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to make them look beautiful.

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We also put special powder
on our forehead, which

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is called a bindi or a pottu.

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And then we also put our hands
together in prayer and that

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makes our sense of touch happy.

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-What do you taste?

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-Well, that's the bit
that everybody enjoys.

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We make special sweets,
which we offer to God,

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and also the sorts of
fruits that we can think of.

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And once it's been
blessed, then we

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give it to everybody to
share and it's called prasad.

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-Yummy!

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-Time to go home now, Blue.

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-Thank you for
answering my questions.

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-You're welcome.

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This is a special flower
to remind you of your visit

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to the temple.

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-Thank you.

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-What did we learn today?

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-Well, today we
went to a mandir.

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That's a Hindu temple.

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And we learned
that Hindus believe

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that God can be seen in
many different forms.

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Murtis are statues of Gods
that Hindus use in worship.

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Sight, sound, smell,
taste, and touch

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are all used when
Hindus worship.

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Guess who?

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-Blue, I told you before
this game doesn't work when

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there's only the two of us.

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-I wish I knew why.

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-Good night Blue.

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-Night Charlie.

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