bhajan

Examples

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• Yogi Bhajan

  Blog text (10)

• Musical Selection: "Meera Bhajan," by Anup Jalota, is an example of a bhajan.

  Academic text (2005)

• The late Yogi Bhajan famously said, "What is the purpose of life?"

  Blog text (32)

• Everybody else can engage in bhajan in consensual partnerships if they so choose.

  Blog text (15)

• Musical Selection: "Meera Bhajan," by Anup Jalota, is an example of a bhajan.

  Academic text (2005)

• And she started singing hymns and bhajans with your Indian hymns.

• Named after the first four octaves of Indian music, it began initially as a way for good friends to meet once a month and teach our young children bhajans.

  Blog text (7)

• Amidst loud singing of bhajans and prayers, Baba Sanakidas offered a glass of orange juice to Bannu.

  Fiction book (1992)

• During the temple festival, everyone gathered to sing bhajans together in devotion.

• The sound of bhajans filled the air as the community came together for worship.

Synonyms

P

prayer service

vsbhajan

8 3.0

A religious meeting where people talk to God and sing songs

is centered on communal devotional singing rather than mainly prayer

R

religious music

vsbhajan

1 3.4

Songs or pieces people sing in places of worship to show faith

is specific to devotional singing or gatherings rather than all ceremonial music

R

religious song

vsbhajan

1 2.1

A song sung as part of religious worship or ceremonies

is specific to Hindu worship and often a communal singing event

A

arati

vsbhajan

• Indian

9.9

A Hindu religious song that people sing during a ceremony with lighted lamps

is broader, used for general devotional singing or gatherings not limited to rituals

How Devotional

bhajan

• Indian

1 9.9

religious song

1 2.1

kumbaya

7 9.6

Surface Forms

Etymology