Devotional Singing

The main activity offered in the Sai Organisation that fosters devotion and thus peace in the spiritual participant is devotional singing. This is a spiritual practice or discipline of the highest order - it purifies the heart, develops awareness of God, promotes good conduct while fostering devotion and faith.

Song and God

The principal feature of mankind which distinguishes him from the mineral, plant and animal kingdom, is that the knowledge of the Creator was planted within every man, woman and child. Men and women have the ability to use their faculties to discover and render worship to God. Sathya Sai Baba has taught devotees to engage in devotional singing right from the very inception of His mission, in 1940.

Devotional singing engages the whole person in a selfless activity; it lifts man, woman and child out of themselves and renders them divine, and places them in the very presence of the holy itself.

You may download a booklet on the various aspects of devotional singing as taught by Sathya Sai Baba here. (730kb)

"Singing this intense yearning for God and enjoying the experience of adoring Him helps purify the atmosphere. Today man is forced to breathe the air with sounds that denote violence, hatred, cruelty and wickedness. Therefore he is fast losing the high attainments that are in store for him ... Devotional singing can cleanse the atmosphere, render it pure, calm and ennobling."
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 13, p151

Properly conducted, devotional singing facilitates a mental and emotional contact with God, defines our relationship with Him and fills us with His presence. Mechanical singing has little or no capacity to generate peace. The Nine Point code of conduct advocates singing with the family, and singing at the Sai Centre.

Remembrance of God's name becomes constant because of rhythm, lyric and the atmosphere of devotion and love. It expands our consciousness and gives us inner strength and joy.

Devotion is not a uniform to be worn when you gather for devotional singing, and to be laid aside when the singing is over. It must mean promotion of an attitude of humility, revering parents, teachers, elders and others; it is a mental outlook, an attitude that is ever-present. It is the sustenance of the heart, just as food is sustenance for the body.

Like the needle of the compass always pointing to the north, never deviating from that direction, returning to it, readily, gladly, quickly, whenever it is shaken off that line, so too the devotee must face the Lord ever, must be happy only when facing Him.

Continuous Devotional Singing

If you are in Sydney, or visiting, we invite you with family and friends to join Sydney's Weekly All-Day Devotional Singing at 134 Queens Road, Five Dock on any Sunday. Come anytime from 10:00 am to chant the Name of the Lord for the well-being of the entire Universe. This activity has been going for several years. You can read the directions to the Sunday Devotional Singing and obtain a map on this page.

The Australian Devotional Singing Book and other singing resources in English are available on the Devotional Singing page.