"Vaishnava Jana To" was Mahatma Gandhiji's favorite Bhajan that was played in his daily Satsangs.
Sat means truth and sang means company, together Satsang means being in the company of the truth. In Satsangs, people unite through music, meditation and wisdom. Those days when there wasn't electronic media, connecting people across India and keeping them united for a single cause was managed through daily Satsangs. That is the power of a Satsang.
Fast forward to now, Indian Ministry of External Affairs took the effort of spreading this message across the World by uniting singers from 124 countries for the rendition of this bhajan. The result is simply beautiful. Watch it here:
Written by a poet Narsinh Mehta in Gujarati, the bhajan outlines the qualities of someone who can call themselves a Vaishnav, though with a broader outlook one can see that it applies to any human. Even if we could aim at following a tiny percent of these, it would make a huge difference in our day to day lives.
