Chanting as a Heart-path to God

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2010

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tami Simon speaks with Jai Uttal, a Grammy-nominated musician who is best known as a world-renowned kirtan artist, kirtan being ecstatic chant in a call-and-response format. His music is an eclectic mix of contemporary and ancient musical elements from various cultures throughout the Eastern and Western worlds. Jai has created five albums with Sounds True, including Kirtan!, and his latest release, Bhakti Bazaar. Jai discusses chanting as a devotional practice, the story of Jai’s first trip to India, his experience meeting his guru, and his understanding of the many Hindu god and goddess figures. (67 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	For those seeking genuine transformation,
0:07.0	sounds true dot com is your trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:11.0	offering diverse, in-depthdepth and life-changing wisdom.
0:16.0	Many Voices, one journey.
0:19.0	Sounds True.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
0:30.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
0:32.0	Today my guest is Jayutal. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
0:33.0	Today my guest is Jayutal.
0:35.0	Jay is a Grammy-nominated musician who is best known as a world-renowned Kirtan artist.
0:42.0	Kirtan being ecstatic chant in a call-and-response format.
0:46.7	His music is an eclectic mix of contemporary and ancient musical elements from various cultures throughout the eastern and western world.
0:56.8	Jai has created five albums with Sounds True, including Kirtan, exclamation point, and his latest release, Bakhty Bazaar.
1:08.1	In this episode, Jai and I spoke about chanting as a devotional practice, the story of Jai's first trip to India, his experience
1:17.1	meeting his guru, and his understanding of the many Hindu God and goddess figures. We also listened to three selections from his albums,
1:27.0	music for yoga and other joys, Kirtan, and the new release, Bakhti Bazaar. Here's my conversation with Jayutal.
1:37.0	Jay, we're going to talk today about Kirtan or ecstaticant and you know I've been interviewing so many different people
1:46.4	about different forms of spiritual practice writing a spiritual practice walking a
1:51.6	spiritual practice and it seems to me that chanting as
1:55.9	spiritual practice might be the most fun form of all. And I'm curious just to
2:02.1	begin with, here you are Mr. Ecstatic, Champ Man. How much fun is it?
2:08.0	Well, that's a funny question, I mean, it's pretty much fun, but I must say that the thing
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