While
SAI TERE HAZAARON NAAM by Sai brother Rana Gill was the first album which was released on this blog on July 18, 2008 (it was three months after this blog was started), the journey of releasing and sharing new albums has never stopped since then. But this is the first time when unrecorded and unreleased live bhajans are being posted on
this blessed blog. In early 2011, Sai brother Rana Gill was in India and he visited me for 10 days. We went to
Shirdi, where he was given permission to sing bhajans in Samadhi Mandir. Pictures of the event were shared on his personal blog, readers can view them from
here. After that a devotee Shri Arvind Sir from
Ahmedabad, Gujarat surprisingly arranged bhajan sandhya in his town.
Lord Sai Baba has blessed me with wonderful Sai family by making and writing blogs on Him. Many are unknown to me but yes some are very close to me. I always cherish such relations in my heart which are not limited to limits of my town, city or country and i guess it is the best gift i could ever ask for from our beloved Lord Baba. I really love bhajans written and sung by Sai brother Rana Gill since i have heard him the very first time. So it was my wish to listen him live. Though i always receive recordings of his live performances in Canada, i craved to listen him in front of me. Me with one of my fatherly Sai family member were discussing how we can arrange for a bhajan sandhya in our town as such events are not popular here. Days long we used to find some way or the other, but none produced any result.
One fine day i received call from Shri Arvind Sir asking me free dates of Sai brother Rana Gill. I was surprised on such an unexpected call. Still it was not a time to think and i gave him all details he asked for. February 18, 2011 was finalised as the date for bhajan sandhya in Ahmedabad by Shri Arvind Sir. Though i knew him since long and i was knowing that he would do wonderful arrangements if i asked him, but i never did so. Instead i was trying all other unproductive means. I was excited to take my brother to Ahmedabad and i informed him. There was no denial from him and the day came. The musicians were excellent and arrangements were beyond words. Sai brother Rana Gill is no doubt a singer who sings by heart and while he sings bhajans he always have a thought that he is singing for Lord Sai Baba only in is mind. So i was not at all hesitant for the event, but Sai brother Rana Gill rather was. He says, "All musicians were excellent but i had never meet them before. They were introduced to me just five minutes before the start so i was in doubting state about music and our co-operation. But they did really good job and i was very overwhelmed by Shirdi Sai Babaji's grace". This is true because all of us were in state of bliss. While Sai brother was leaving for Baroda, he was given recording of all bhajans which he sang previous day. Copies were made and are being distributed among near and dear Sai family members by us.
Few days before Sai brother Rana Gill called me and asked me to share all bhajans through
his blog and mine too. Since few bhajans which are recorded but waiting to be released were also sung in that bhajan sandhya i expressed my doubt regarding its sharing. He said why we need to wait for its release. They were sung for Lord Sai Baba and are for His bhaktas. So why only we are listening. After next album is released devotees can listen that too but right now it is not proper to listen these bhajans ourselves only. I agreed to his thought and first shared all bhajans on his blog and now it available for you all too. Total of sixteen bhajans were sung by him and they all will be shared as they were sung in sequence.
Sai brother Rana Gill can be contacted by email on
ranagill@saimail.com or by filling this
contact form.
This was first bhajan sung which is a request and remembrance of Lord Ganesha, the Lord whose name is taken while starting any good work, to make successful this event. The bhajan is in Punjabi language, mother tongue of Sai brother Rana Gill.