What Bhajans can you find here
This website is dedicated to Bhajans sung in the presence of Sathya Sai Baba in His ashrams in South India and in Sai centres around the world.
What's unique about this website
On this website you can learn the Bhajans by the means of audio & music notation & translation on one page per Bhajan.
How do Indian Bhajans come to Switzerland
Some Swiss Sai devotees and musicians dedicate themselves to singing, playing and teaching these Bhajans. For this purpose they have edited books with the transcription from original Indian audio sources of 3 x 108 Bhajans (324 Bhajans) in western music notation.
Why do we sing Bhajans
In 1968 Sathya Sai Baba said: "Sing aloud the glory of God and charge the atmosphere with divine adoration; the clouds will pour the sanctity through rain on the fields; the crops will feed on it and purify and fortify the food; the food will induce divine urges in man. This is the chain of progress. This is the reason why I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord."
Here is a short piece of "found footage" style fiction inspired by that technical file string:
There is no dialogue, only the low-bitrate hum of a windstorm captured in AAC audio. For ten minutes, the camera remains static. Then, at the edge of the frame, a figure appears. They aren't walking; they are standing perfectly still, as if they were always part of the landscape and the sensor only just decided to acknowledge them.
The file metadata says "B-Global," but there is nothing global about this. It feels private. It feels like a secret tucked into a high-efficiency container, waiting for someone to hit play and realize that some things are clearer when they're digital—and much more terrifying.
The screen flickers to life in a crisp, unforgiving 3840x2160 resolution. The clarity is almost violent. You can see the individual fractures in the dry lake bed and the way the heat waves distort the horizon, rendered perfectly by the HEVC codec.
This looks like a file name for a high-quality (4K) video rip, likely a movie or documentary episode. Since the "topic" bracket is empty, it feels like a blank canvas waiting for a narrative.
Here is a short piece of "found footage" style fiction inspired by that technical file string:
There is no dialogue, only the low-bitrate hum of a windstorm captured in AAC audio. For ten minutes, the camera remains static. Then, at the edge of the frame, a figure appears. They aren't walking; they are standing perfectly still, as if they were always part of the landscape and the sensor only just decided to acknowledge them.
The file metadata says "B-Global," but there is nothing global about this. It feels private. It feels like a secret tucked into a high-efficiency container, waiting for someone to hit play and realize that some things are clearer when they're digital—and much more terrifying.
The screen flickers to life in a crisp, unforgiving 3840x2160 resolution. The clarity is almost violent. You can see the individual fractures in the dry lake bed and the way the heat waves distort the horizon, rendered perfectly by the HEVC codec.
This looks like a file name for a high-quality (4K) video rip, likely a movie or documentary episode. Since the "topic" bracket is empty, it feels like a blank canvas waiting for a narrative.
Martin Lienhard
Physicist, viola & sitar
Langenbruck, Switzerland
music transcriptions, project coordination first book
Roger Dietrich [ ] - 10 (B-Global 3840x2160 HEVC AAC MKV) [7FD...
Social worker, flute & bansuri
Luzern, Switzerland
music transcriptions, project coordination second book
Reto Küng
Artist, sax & tabla
Basel, Switzerland
music transcriptions third book, translations, webmaster
Stefanie Lienhard Here is a short piece of "found footage"
Homeopath, harmonium
Langenbruck, Switzerland
supporter of the project, critical tester of the notations
Links to other interesting pages with Sai Bhajans
http://vahini.org/downloads/babasbhajans.html
http://prasanthi-mandir-bhajan.net/00Index.htm
https://sairhythms.sathyasai.org/songs
http://www.saidarshan.org/baba/docs/saib.html
http://www.saibaba.ws/bhajans.htm
https://stream.sssmediacentre.org:8443/bhajan
Scientific Sanskrit Dictionary
https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de