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		<title>A Windy Day In Albuquerque (rambling thoughts on the long airplane ride to Brazil)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking to the Pancha Karma house one morning early last month, the winds were blowing wildly as a sudden, unexpected storm descended upon Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dry leaves were slapping my face and branches and twigs were crashing against the doors and walls of the neighboring homes. Already in a reflective state from the Ayurvedic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Road With No Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I consider my Guru, among other things, to have been a great teacher of Bhakti Yoga. I say &#8216;among other things&#8217; because he was impossible to pin down. He hardly ever actually &#8216;taught,&#8217; he never spoke about himself or his lineage, he never gave lectures or discourses. Amazing miracles occurred around Maharjji all the time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHY DO WE SING KIRTAN; ONE MORE BOTTOM LINE&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings everyone, I&#8217;ve been wanting to write to you about my last trip to India for quite some time. But life and her many streams of busy-ness seems to always intervene. What&#8217;s been going on this year? Whew&#8230;. My &#8220;Down On My Knees&#8221; video project; recording and releasing Bhakti Bazaar with Ben Leinbach; recording Queen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookies and Tea &#8211; A Slight Shift in Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bhakti Yoga brings us into the world of mystery, a realm where the dissecting, discerning qualities of the intellect are powerless next to the vast ocean of feelings. For most practitioners, the goal of Yoga is union, oneness with the Supreme. But in Bhakti Yoga we don&#8217;t think about the goal, we only weep, laugh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to &#8220;Bhakti Bazaar&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rainy day in Porto da Lua, Bahia, Brasil. Listening to the wind, the ocean, and my soon to be released CD, Bhakti Bazaar, recorded with Ben Leinbach last year. Getting a massage for my tired achey muscles, dreaming of &#8216;love forever&#8217;&#8230;. I don&#8217;t usually listen to my own music and when I do, well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FROM MYTH TO MIRACLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ok, Jai…. Sit down and write something!” “But I’m not a writer, I’m a singer and a musician….” “Well, you’re not playing music or singing right now and you’re bored of reading your mystery novel and too awake for a nap……” “But I have nothing to write about….” “Just sit down and see what happens…..” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Noon in the Desert &#8211; Hare Krishna Hare Rama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, friends&#8230;.. Good morning (California time). It looks like spring may finally be breaking through. Has it been a long winter everywhere???? Well, I haven’t ‘blogged’ in a while. (That’s another one of these modern words, like ‘googled.’) Somehow, between parenting, working, and practicing music, many other important things on my daily ‘to-do’ list seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a Kirtan Singer Really Record an Album of Appalachian Murder Ballads?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I COURTED PRETTY POLLY THAT LIVE LONG NIGHT AND LEFT HER NEXT MORNING BEFORE IT WAS LIGHT PRETTY POLLY PRETTY POLLY COME GO ALONG WITH ME BEFORE WE GET MARRIED SOME PLEASURE TO SEE I LED HER OVER HILLS AND VALLEYS SO DEEP UNTIL PRETTY POLLY SHE COMMENCED TO WEEP OH WILLY OH WILLY I’M [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends in High Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a deep relief it was to hear those sounds and smell those smells once again. Bells, chants, heart-rending cries of “Radhe Radhe,” incense, sacred fires, cow dung burning…… I was back in my holy Vrindavan again; the land of Radha and Krishna; the ‘dham’ (pilgrimage place) where I first met my Guru, Neem Karoli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I was sitting in the courtyard of my guru’s ashram in a small North Indian village, taking the sun, drinking chai, and watching a family of monkeys dance and fight around a few bags of rice. Bells were ringing in the distance and the sweet smells of marigolds and incense were mingling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; The Baba in the Stilt House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, India&#8230; The land of dreams, exaggerations, unbelievable stories and mythological figures; where the line between the &#8216;spirit&#8217; world and the &#8216;real&#8217; world is very thin, indeed; where monkeys and elephants are Gods, and cows are the Great Mother; where the lilting song of a bamboo flute is the signal for a dip into divine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; How Ganga Dhar and I became the first &#8220;official&#8221; International Bauls. Part Two.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The mirror of the sky Reflects my soul. Oh Baul of the road, Oh Baul my heart, What keeps me tied to the corner of the room, What keeps me tied?&#8221; - Composed by Nabani Das Baul, borrowed by me for the song, &#8220;Corner&#8221;, on my album, &#8220;Shiva Station&#8221;. It&#8217;s kind of funny writing memoir-ish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; How Ganga Dhar and I became the first “official” International Bauls. Part One.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mid-60’s…. I was exploring so many new sounds, everything from Cecil Taylor’s wildly abstract piano compositions to Olivier Messiaen’s breathtaking bird-song-imbued hymns to the divine baby Jesus. All mixed up with the outer space guitar of Jimi Hendrix and the continually mind expanding songs of The Beatles. But what took hold of me most, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; July 23, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guru&#8217;s Grace A tale of berries and bananas&#8230; Since time immemorial it&#8217;s been the custom in India, when visiting a holy person or shrine, to bring an offering. This can be fruit, sweets, flowers, incense, even money, and it signifies an offering of one&#8217;s heart and soul, of one&#8217;s very being, to the great heart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; June 23, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard Ustad Ali Akbar Khan perform live when I was a freshman at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in the autumn of 1969. I&#8217;d listened to his music a lot by then, sometimes jamming along on the guitar, but I hadn&#8217;t yet had the chance to attend a performance. So, being a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; May 15, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a young teenager just beginning to explore the &#8216;spiritual path&#8217; I was more than willing to believe anything anyone told me. In fact I was thirsty for any words that would take me outside of myself, away from the Jai I knew and turn me into a bigger, better, and preferably blonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; April 28, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend asked me this evening why don’t I do some kind of ceremony before leading a kirtan. I thought about this for a while and said why would I want to do a ceremony before the ceremony? For me the kirtan IS the ceremony, the invocation, the dance of feelings, the Great Cosmic Drama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; April 14, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people in the United States experience a huge wave of anxiety this evening, with the dreaded tax monster demanding his dinner tomorrow. For me this day has quite a different meaning. Partially, I suppose, because I’m ALWAYS late doing my taxes, but mostly because today is the birthday of my teacher and mentor, Ustad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; April 1, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of hours, days and weeks of my life looking back at my childhood and trying to reconstruct, remember and somehow heal the reverberations of abuse and trauma. I used to think that the only legacy I got from my mother was one of alcoholism and self hatred. And still my Guru [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jai&#8217;s Blog &#8211; March 25, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmmmm…… Like so many of us, I’m always thinking about this and that and the other thing. Sometimes a little bit profound and more often than not totally mundane. Then why is it that when I’m given the assignment (by myself!) to write a blog for my new website, I cant think of ANYTHING to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the new JaiUttal.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey there friends!!!!!! Welcome to my new website&#8230;&#8230;. We thought it was time for a change. Not only a new look, but a website that I could deal with a bit easier than my old one. I&#8217;ve been wanting to write notes to you all (I guess they&#8217;re called blogs&#8230; I really have a hard [...]]]></description>
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