Any sort of music is soothing to human ears.
Even animals found them heavenly.
Music is a divine melody that has enormous force and benevolent power.
Bhajans are truly devotional songs that are sung by people in honor of Indian Gods to express gratitude towards them.
Indians believe they have been blessed by God and so they express their devotion and love by singing beautiful bhajans.
You will hear bhajans in temples and most of Indians worship at their home by singing bhajans.
Bhajans are simple songs sung in touching tone expressing the heartiest thankfulness to God.
Indians believe that bhajans are a way by which they can surrender themselves and their soul to their God.
It marks complete submission of the people to the almighty lord who has blessed them with so many things.
Bhajans were first found in the fourth book of the Vedas, Sama Veda.
Bhajans are generally sung in groups with one person leading and the rest following him, singing in chorus.
The lyrics of these bhajans generally depict the lives, glory of Indian Gods, their teachings or any other anecdote.
Bhajans have profound appeal to the masses because of their colloquial renderings and proximity to the God.
Bhajans have been deeply rooted into the Hindu tradition and is an integral part of their culture.
You can see people singing bhajans and hymns on almost every other occasion.
The popularity of bhajans can be judged from the fact that there are different bhajans for different occasion and their number is growing exponentially.
The origin of bhajans is as long as the human origin.
Since then they have been merged into the hearts of human and so their impact on the people is really unfathomable.
Bhajans have been developed over the years, Gorakhanathi, Ashtachhap, Nirguni, Madhura-bhakti, Vallabhapanthi are some of them with each having their own bhajans and distinct style of singing.
Bhajans have seen its rise along with the humanity.
Tulsidas, Kabirdas, Meera Bai, Surdas are some of the illustrious devotees that the medieval period saw.
They have numerous harmonious bhajans to their name.
In modern world we have many great composers like Pt.
V.
N.
Bhatkhande and Pt.
V.
D.
Paluskar who have tried their best to blend different Indian classical music with Raga Sangeet to produce melodious bhajans which are purely divine catering to a larger audience.
Bhajans are a great stress busters and the most interesting thing is that most people indulges in bhajan singing without knowing that this traditional method of invoking divine also have a remarkable stress removing impact.
A group of people singing bhajans known as bhajan mandalis are very much popular in India, having shown their presence as back as the beginning of Bhakti era.
These mandalis have greatly helped in removing the social, cultural and other differences present in the Indian society.
People participate in bhajans mandalis and sing with them whole heartedly forgetting their differences.
The bhajans turn out to be a recreational activity that brings a kind of mental relaxation.
Bhajans are generally sung with closed eyes to make sure that people concentrate on the words and thereby feeling a transitory independence of mind, body and soul known as shashwat, something each one of us is searching for.