What is bhajan? Article by Buddhaditya

What is Bhajan? Article by Buddhaditya

Bhajan is the devotional part of Indian classical music we believe devotion is the starting point of Indian classical music and devotion is the ending point of Indian classical music, because Indian classical has started with the help of dhrupad sangeet, which is devotional, and Indian classical ends with bhajan sangeet, which is also devotional, the basic equation of bhajan is, words plus emotion is equal to divine vibration.

In bhajan Sangeet we try to dedicate ourselves towards the divine energy, grammatical rules the Shastra of classical Ragas the basic rhythmic pattern and other things are not important but the poetry is most important, when we sing a bhajan, we try to do justice to the poetry using different notations and classical Ragas, while singing the bhajan Sangeet if we will use various kind of grammatical techniques of Indian classical music but still if we don't do justice to the poetry properly, then the purpose of bhajan Sangeet is destroyed.

There are many layers of bhajans, the composition can be dependent on classical aspects, we have heard this kind of Bhajan from Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, we have heard special bhajan Sangeet gayaki from Subha Lakshmi Iyer, we have heard special bhajan gayak he in a Commercial way, with the help of the bhajan Samrat Mr Anup Jelota, in this type of singing we can find the essence of Indian classical music as well as the commercial aspect also, but now for last 20 years we are introduced to one kind of special bhajan Gaya ki where the commercial aspect is very high, in this kind of bhajan singing we can feel the colours of Bollywood music, the bhajan of Mr Sanjay Roshan Talwar which I have shared now in this group, that is very close to Bollywood singing.

With sincere regards,
 a simple maid servant of Indian classical music.