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The Bhagavata Podcast invites listeners on an engaging journey through the Bhagavata Purana, more commonly known as the Srimad Bhagavatam. Each episode features conversations between scholars, many of whom are also practitioners, as they reflect on and analyze a chapter of this text together. The podcast offers a unique blend of academic rigor and personal insight, providing fresh perspectives that illuminate the beauty and uniqueness of the Bhagavatam. In each episode, host Dr. Måns Broo, an esteemed scholar and Gaudiya Vaishnava practitioner, invites expert guests to reflect on a chapter of the Bhagavata Purana. Following a linear progression through the text, the discussions explore the philosophical, theological, and literary dimensions of the Bhagavatam, offering both traditional insights and modern academic interpretations. This thoughtful approach enables listeners to journey through the Bhagavata Purana chapter by chapter, uncovering the intricate teachings of this work.
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- 2 weeks ago52 min
2.8 Why God Must Be Fantastical | Bhagavata Podcast with Advaita Das
Philosophy decided two thousand years ago that God cannot have a body. Every body is material, limited, reducible. If you want God to be eternal and unlimited, he cannot be bodied. The Bhagavatam's answer to that is a baby stealing butter and peeing in the house of a cowherd woman. Canto 2, Chapter 8 is the hinge on which the entire Purana turns. Pariksit has seven days left and has already received his practical instructions: fix the mind on Vishnu, chant the name of Narayana. Now he asks th...
- Aug 17, 202651 min
2.7 One Verse Each. Except Krishna. | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das
The Bhagavatam's longest avatar list gives each divine figure one verse. Sometimes two. When it reaches Krishna, it gives him ten. Canto 2, Chapter 7 surveys 23 lila avatars, the longest such list in the entire Purana. Sundar Gopal Das (Dr. Simon Haas), a Gaudiya Vaishnava scholar and author, reads it as a narrative table of contents: each avatar gets just enough detail to generate appetite for the full account in the cantos ahead. These stories are told, as the preceding verse puts it, so th...
- Jul 29, 20261h 10m
2.6 You Cannot Know God. So Sing Anyway. | Bhagavata Podcast with Gopinathacharya Das
Brahma describes the entire process of creation and then admits he cannot know the Lord. His response to that admission is not silence. It is song. Canto 2, Chapter 6 continues the Virat Rupa meditation from the previous chapter, but shifts the emphasis. Where chapter 5 asked what the cosmic form is, this chapter asks what it generates: the faculties of the human body, each mapped to a presiding deity, each tied to the wider cosmos through what the Vedic tradition calls bandhus, hidden corres...
- Jun 30, 202659 min
Who Created the Creator? | The Bhagavata Podcast with Sri Prahlada Dasa
There are dozens of gods in the Vedic scriptures, and the texts seem to glorify some of them just as highly as Vishnu. For anyone raised in a tradition that insists Narayana is supreme, that is not an abstract problem. Sri Prahlada Dasa carried that question from his teenage years until a single line from the Bhagavad Gita answered it. Canto 2, Chapter 5 is built around exactly this kind of correction. Narada approaches Brahma as the independent creator, using the image of a spider spinning i...
- Jun 3, 202655 min
2.4 I've Never Been Completely Satisfied with Anything I've Done | Bhagavata Podcast with Anuradha Devi Dasi
Standing at Govardhan, Bhrigupada felt something deeply spiritual. A few minutes later it was gone. The Srimad Bhagavatam does not treat this as failure. It treats it as the starting point. Canto 2, Chapter 4 carries a misleading title: "The Process of Creation." The question about creation is asked in verse 9. The answer begins in the next chapter. What Shukadeva Goswami does instead, for more than half this chapter, is pray. Anuradha Dooney, who leads the Youth Education Programme at the Ox...
- May 12, 202657 min
2.3 Chant Every Day and Still Feeling Nothing | Bhagavata Podcast with Manjari Devi Dasi
What does it mean if years of sincere practice haven't changed you? Not for lack of effort, not for lack of concentration, but because something harder to name is holding you in place. The Srimad Bhagavatam calls this a steel-framed heart, and Canto 2, Chapter 3 is where it delivers that diagnosis. This episode explores one of the most densely cited chapters in the entire Bhagavatam. Of its 25 verses, Prabhupada quoted 19 in his writings and lectures, compared to just three from the 37-verse ...
- Apr 27, 202656 min
2.2 What the Manosphere Gets Wrong About Worth | Bhagavata Podcast with Shaunaka Rishi Das
A teenager thinks his father is a loser because he doesn't drive a Lamborghini. The Bhagavatam asks: when you can use your arm as a pillow, what is the necessity of a pillow at all? These two visions of the good life are further apart than they look — and closer together than you'd expect. Canto 2, Chapter 2 continues Shukadeva Goswami's answer to Pariksit's question: what should a person do who is about to die? Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, joins host ...
- Apr 13, 202656 min
2.1 What Should You Do When You're About to Die? | Bhagavata Podcast with Jayananda Dasa
A well-known contemporary guru was asked, mid-event, how to prepare for death. He laughed — not dismissively, but his answer was: "You should be focusing on how to live." The Bhagavatam disagrees. And its answer turns out to be not about the future at all. Canto 2, Chapter 1 is where Shukadeva Goswami finally begins to speak. The first book of the Srimad Bhagavatam spent its entire length setting up one question: what should a person do who is about to die? Now, with Pariksit seated on the b...
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The Bhagavata Podcast invites listeners on an engaging journey through the Bhagavata Purana, more commonly known as the Srimad Bhagavatam. Each episode features conversations between scholars, many of whom are also practitioners, as they reflect on and analyze a chapter of this text together. The podcast offers a unique blend of academic rigor and personal insight, providing fresh perspectives that illuminate the beauty and uniqueness of the Bhagavatam. In each episode, host Dr. Måns Broo, an esteemed scholar and Gaudiya Vaishnava practitioner, invites expert guests to reflect on a chapter of the Bhagavata Purana. Following a linear progression through the text, the discussions explore the philosophical, theological, and literary dimensions of the Bhagavatam, offering both traditional insights and modern academic interpretations. This thoughtful approach enables listeners to journey through the Bhagavata Purana chapter by chapter, uncovering the intricate teachings of this work.
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