Acharya Prashant: When you have no question to ask, sometimes it’s better to just sing a song.
Listener 1: What is your feeling about singing bhajans?
AP: Singing bhajans. Oh, Wonderful! When you have nothing else to say it is then that bhajan arise.
L1: I do feel a sense of something in bhajans. I don’t understand bhajans, but they seem to have an effect. I don’t understand why.
AP: That is why they have an effect. If you could understand why then you would destroy the effect. So, bhajans surely have an effect, and they are most wonderful. Only thing is I have not really come across English bhajans. The very essence, the sweetness, the nectar of bhajans somehow comes only in the language in which they were written. Translations take away a lot. So, we sing bhajans a lot; in fact, more than we talk sometimes we sing.
L2: The bhajans that I have read, I don’t know if they are in Sanskrit or in Hindi. Most of the bhajans that you are familiar with, are they in Sanskrit or in other languages?
