The Bhagavata Podcast

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.

Publisher

The Bhagavata Podcast

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Mar 2025

Latest episode

17 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Aug 2026

   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...

2. 

   29 Jul 2026

   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...

3. 

   30 Jun 2026

   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...

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