Swami on Bhajans

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" To elevate the bhajans to a spiritual level what are required are true feeling and ecstasy of devotion. The songs should flow nor from the lips but from the heart, Conduct your bhajans with a pure unsullied heart, you will experience the Divine. ...You should sing whole-heartedly with the desire to please God.... Merge your soul in the bhajans you sing. Spiritualise your bhajan-singing. Then you will experience real bliss."

 

- Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol.30, Chapter 7.

 

"The devotional singing one can get merged in the Divine. That is the reason why the Lord is described as Gaanalola or Gaanapriya (Lover of song or one who is charmed by music). It will be befitting if a devotee combines the reciting of the Lord's name with singing and praying for merger with the Divine."

 

Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 27, Chapter 29.

 

"Singing this intense yearning for God and enjoying the experience of adoring Him, helps to purify the atmosphere. No man can escape the influence of the pollution of the air he breathes. The sounds that we produce, with good intent or bad, spread throughout the air around us. The pollution in the atmosphere is imbibed by the plants, the plants supply the grain, the grain is the basis of the meal. When the environment is clean and free from evil vibrations, the food too is pure.... It is to ensure such an atmosphere that this saadhana (spiritual effort) initiated the world over."

 

- Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol. 13, Chapter 37. "Bhajan is one of the processes by which you can train the mind to expand into eternal values.Teach the mind to revel in the glory and majesty of God; wean it away from petty horizons of pleasure. That is all that bhajan or puuja or vratha can do. Bhajan induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to tast the bliss that is the Self.. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely for his real Self..

 

- Sathya Sai Speaks. Vol.9, Chapter 14.

 

Om Sai Ram