Bhajans for Sathya Sai Baba

Indian devotional songs in western music notation

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."

free download of our books

In Book I, II+x and III, the bhajans of each volume are alphabetically ordered and numbered. In the new complete Book 2026 all Bhajans have new alphabetical numbers. Here you can download a number conversion list.

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243 Bhajans
Volume I & II+x - 12 MB
print out or play with a tablet
on your harmonium

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81 Bhajans
Volume III - 2 MB
print out or play with a tablet
on your harmonium

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324 Bhajans
Volume I & II & III - 7 MB
print out or play with a tablet
on your harmonium

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223 Westlieder
Edition 2020 - 40 MB
to be used only in Swiss
Sai Centres and Groups

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Team of authors

If you have questions or feedback about our project "Bhajans for Sathya Sai Baba", please don't hesitate to .

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Martin Lienhard

Physicist, viola & sitar
Langenbruck, Switzerland
music transcriptions, project coordination first book

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Roger Dietrich

Social worker, flute & bansuri
Luzern, Switzerland
music transcriptions, project coordination second book

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Reto Küng

Artist, sax & tabla
Basel, Switzerland
music transcriptions third book, translations, webmaster

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Stefanie Lienhard

Homeopath, harmonium
Langenbruck, Switzerland
supporter of the project, critical tester of the notations