Sai Baba of Shirdi

What is Bhajan ?

A Bhajan is any type of Indian devotional song. It has no fixed form: it may be as simple as a mantra or kirtan or as sophisticated as the dhrupad or kriti with music based on classical ragas and talas. It is normally lyrical, expressing love for the Divine. The name, a cognate of bhakti, meaning religious devotion, suggests its importance to the bhakti movement that spread from the south of India throughout the entire subcontinent in the Moghul era.

bhajan - singing of chants or hymns used to worship and remember the Divine. In the Sant Mat tradition, this term is used to refer to the practice used to allow the spirit egress to the inner current of sound of the Nada in the Second Transcendental path.