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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

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 lil

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 co

2.5 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 Naray

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

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 ho

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

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."

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 prepa

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 re

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 Sw

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

1.15 What Remains When Everything Is Taken Away? | Bhagavata Podcast with Radhika Raman Das

Arjuna's bow arm has failed. His powers are gone. The warriors who once fled before him now barely trouble him. The Bhagavatam in Canto 1, Chapter 15 asks what this

1.14 Why Does Grief Feel Like Love? | Bhagavata Podcast with Jayananda Das

Arjuna has returned from Dvaraka. One look at his face and Yudhishthira knows. Krishna is gone. What the Bhagavatam does with that knowledge, across Canto 1, Chapter 14,

1.13 What Do You Do When Someone You Love Refuses to Let Go? | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das

Vidura has returned from years of pilgrimage. He has seen enough of the world to know what he needs to say. And what he says to Dhritarashtra in the palace of the Pandava

1.12 The Child Who Survived a Nuclear Weapon | Bhagavata Podcast with Jayananda Das

Before he could be born, the last of the Pandava line was nearly destroyed by a weapon of devastating power. What saved him, and what that survival meant, is the subject

1.11 What Does It Feel Like When God Comes Home? | Bhagavata Podcast with Krishna Ksetra Swami

What would it actually look like if an entire city experienced devotional joy at the same moment? The Bhagavatam in Canto 1, Chapter 11 attempts to describe exactly that.

1.10 What Do You Do When the One You Love Has to Leave? | Bhagavata Podcast with Shaunaka Rishi Das

The war is over. The kingdom is restored. And Krishna is leaving. How do you say goodbye to the person whose presence has held everything together? In Canto 1, Chapter 1

1.9 How Do You Want to Die? | Bhagavata Podcast with Radhika Raman Das

Bhishmadeva has lain on a bed of arrows for fifty-eight days, waiting. He has the rare gift of choosing his own moment of death. What he does with that time is one of the

1.8 A Queen Prays for More Suffering | Bhagavata Podcast with Radhika Raman Das

What kind of prayer asks for more calamity? And what does it tell us that the Bhagavatam treats this as one of its most beautiful passages? In Canto 1, Chapter 8, Queen