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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.The Bhagavata Podcast is an initiative supported by the Gaudiya Studies Research Programme of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, furthering the mission of connecting living traditions with academic exploration.
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- 2 days ago55 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...
- 3 weeks ago57 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...
- Mar 29, 202651 min
1.19 What Would You Do If You Had Seven Days to Live? | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das
What would you do if you learned you had seven days to live? Most of us would panic, bargain, or spend those days in dread. King Parikshit sat down by the river and prepared to die with complete clarity. This is the final chapter of the first book of the Srimad Bhagavatam, and it arrives like a carefully placed door: everything in Canto 1 has been building toward this moment. In this episode, Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr. Mans Broo) and Sundar Gopal Das (Dr. Simon Haas) explo...
- Mar 15, 20261h 9m
1.18 A King, a Curse, and a Seven-Day Deadline | Bhagavata Podcast with Manjari Devi Dasi
A great king, exhausted and thirsty, makes an impulsive mistake. A young brahmin boy responds with a curse: die within seven days. What unfolds from that moment is the reason the entire Bhagavatam exists. Canto 1, Chapter 18 is the hinge on which the Bhagavatam turns. In this episode, host Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr. Mans Broo, Senior Lecturer at Åbo Akademi University and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies) reads it with Manjari Devi Dasi, PhD, of Bhaktivedanta College i...
- Feb 27, 20261h 8m
1.17 If Evil Surrenders to You, What Do You Do? | Bhagavata Podcast with Krishna Ksetra Swami
Kali kneels before Parikshit and asks for mercy. What an emperor does in that moment, and why, is the subject of Canto 1, Chapter 17 of the Bhagavatam. Krishna Ksetra Swami (Dr. Kenneth Valpey) and host Bhrigupada Dasa examine the full range of this chapter: the cosmic structure of Kali's four abodes (gambling, intoxication, illicit sex, and slaughter), the Bhagavatam's sustained case for non-violence including its application to food, and the question of whether Parikshit's decision to spar...
- Feb 13, 20261h 12m
1.16 The Age We're Living In and What It's Actually Doing to Us | Bhagavata Podcast with Gopal Hari Das
A bull standing on one leg. A cow weeping in an empty field. A strange figure beating them both. Parikshit, the last great emperor, comes upon this scene on the road and has to decide what to do with it. Canto 1, Chapter 16 of the Bhagavatam is the text's account of how the Kali Yuga began, and what it is. Gopal Hari Das (Dr. Gopal Gupta) and host Bhrigupada Dasa explore what the Bhagavatam actually means by the present age: its four characteristic symptoms (the collapse of truthfulness, cle...
About The Bhagavata Podcast
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.The Bhagavata Podcast is an initiative supported by the Gaudiya Studies Research Programme of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, furthering the mission of connecting living traditions with academic exploration.
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