Real Purpose of Bhajan singing

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All My  loving brothers and sisters,

 

Almost all of us are either lead singers or sincere followers of

bhajans in our own Samithis/ centre.

 

How should we sing Bhajan?? Let us all together dwell upon a

namavali bhajan "Giridhara Govinda Gopala Ganashyama nandalala"

 

MEANING   OF  BHAJAN – " GIRIDHARA  GOVINDA  GOPALA".

 

1)Giridhara      -One who held aloft the Govardhana   mountain

near    mathura,  to protect every one (one who will  lift all  us

out of our problems and agonies- Mangala aarati anduko mandara

giridhari) 

     

2)Govinda,Gopala –One who protects the cows, Also,   one who

protects land, one who controls one's own senses.

 

3)Ganashayama      - One whose colour is dark blue, one who is ever

attractive, a treat for one's  eyes

 

4)Nandalala      -Nanda's son- Like Krishna belonged to Nandagopa who

was not his real father, Our Sai Krishna   belongs to one and all,

who so ever calls Him and who so ever Worships Him.

 

5)Manamohana      -Stealer of heart- Swami- invites us though miracle,

through dream, through some one,through a book passed on by some one

and then, by His darshan, Sparshan, Sambhashan- He steals our heart

which then thinks of None other but HIM.

 

5)Madhusudana      -One who killed the demon MADHU in Dwapara yuga. One

who has to kill the demon inside each one of us. The Ego which is

sweet like madhu, evil like the demon Madhu.

              

7)Madhava      - One who is consort of Ma- Mahalakshmi

      - One who is Lord of Knowledge

 

8)Damodara      -Having a rope tied around His waist(tied by Yasoda,

to restrict Kshna from getting into Gopika's houses to steel butter

from their Home)- (Our Sai krisna steels our heart when it gets as

pure as the white butter, when we invoke Him with sincere heart.)

      -One who is known by a purified mind (Udara) b means of self

control (Dama)

 

9)Janardana      -One who is approached by (janam) for boons of all

kinds

      - one who is a pleasure, a bliss to our senses.

10)Muralidhara      - One who holds Murali in our heart.(Onme who will

hold us close to Him when we become hollow like Murali, hollow

without ego and hollow without desire.

11)Manamohana       -See pt 5

 

12)Sai      - Divine Mother (Sa+ Ayi)

 

13)Narayana      - Who is Divine Father for all Nara( Nara+ Nayna),

One who is shelter for the whole world

One who was born as Sai Narayana in Dwaparayuga has desecended

again, reincarnated again in Parthi as Sathya Narayana.

 

 

My dear Brothers and sisters,

 

Every one of us sing bhajans, we are happy when our bhajan goes on

well and are disturned when our bhajan does not go well on another

day.Is that the purpose of bhajan? Are we to sing to please the

audiance?

 

Let us select a few bhajans which we would like to sing in the near

future, which ar suitable to our level of bhajan singing and then:-

 

- Let us first of all collect the literal meaning of each single

word in the bhajan.This is the first and initial step. Google,

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