The Bhagavata Podcast
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2.7 One Verse Each. Except Krishna. | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das
Aug 17, 2026
51m 11s
2.6 You Cannot Know God. So Sing Anyway. | Bhagavata Podcast with Gopinathacharya Das
Jul 29, 2026
1h 10m 33s
Who Created the Creator? | The Bhagavata Podcast with Sri Prahlada Dasa
Jun 30, 2026
59m 55s
2.5 Who Created the Creator? | The Bhagavata Podcast with Sri Prahlada Dasa
Jun 30, 2026
59m 55s
2.4 I've Never Been Completely Satisfied with Anything I've Done | Bhagavata Podcast with Anuradha Devi Dasi
Jun 3, 2026
55m 52s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/17/26 | 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... | 51m 11s | ||||||
| 7/29/26 | 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... | 1h 10m 33s | ||||||
| 6/30/26 | Vedic scripturessupreme deity+3 | Sri Prahlada Dasa | Bhagavad GitaBhagavata Podcast | — | Vedic scripturesHinduism+6 | — | 59m 55s | ||
| 6/30/26 | 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 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... | 59m 55s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | spiritual experiencecreation+3 | — | Youth Education ProgrammeOx+2 | — | spiritualitycreation process+3 | — | 55m 52s | ||
| 5/12/26 | spiritual practiceBhagavatam+3 | — | Srimad BhagavatamCanto 2, Chapter 3 | — | Bhagavatamsteel-framed heart+5 | — | 57m 02s | ||
| 4/27/26 | worthgood life+5 | Shaunaka Rishi Das | Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies | — | Bhagavatamworth+8 | — | 56m 02s | ||
| 4/13/26 | deathpreparation for death+3 | — | Srimad Bhagavatam | — | death preparationBhagavatam+3 | — | 56m 44s | ||
| 3/29/26 | mortalityspiritual reflection+3 | Bhrigupada Dasa | Srimad Bhagavatam | — | seven days to liveKing Parikshit+3 | — | 51m 30s | ||
| 3/15/26 | kingcurse+4 | Manjari Devi Dasi | Åbo Akademi UniversityOxford Centre for Hindu Studies+1 | — | Bhagavatamking+5 | — | 1h 09m 15s | ||
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| 2/27/26 | mercynon-violence+5 | Krishna Ksetra Swami | Bhagavatam | — | KaliParikshit+5 | — | 1h 08m 40s | ||
| 2/13/26 | Kali YugaBhagavatam+3 | Gopal Hari Das | Bhagavatam | — | Kali YugaBhagavatam+5 | — | 1h 12m 18s | ||
| 12/15/25 | identityspiritual life+3 | Radhika Raman Das | BhagavatamCanto 1, Chapter 15 | — | ArjunaBhagavatam+5 | — | 1h 09m 59s | ||
| 12/1/25 | griefloss+4 | Jayananda Das | Bhagavatam | — | grieflove+5 | — | 48m 28s | ||
| 10/28/25 | pilgrimageBhagavatam+3 | Sundar Gopal Das | — | — | ViduraDhritarashtra+6 | — | 1h 07m 02s | ||
| 10/22/25 | birth narrativeVedic understanding+3 | Jayananda Das | Bhagavatam | — | ParikshitPandava+3 | — | 57m 26s | ||
| 8/4/25 | 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. Krishna Ksetra Swami (Dr. Kenneth Valpey) and host Bhrigupada Dasa examine what the text is doing when it describes Krishna's return to Dvaraka: the crowds, the flowers, the women on rooftops, the elephants and birds, all participating in a single moment of welcome. This episode takes seriously both the literary craft of th... | 1h 05m 07s | ||||||
| 7/21/25 | 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 10, the Bhagavatam slows to watch the citizens of Hastinapura stand in the street, unable to move, as Krishna's chariot disappears from view. Shaunaka Rishi Das and host Bhrigupada Dasa explore what the text is doing in this moment: theologically, poetically, and emotionally. The concept of viraha (loving separation) is introd... | 1h 01m 12s | ||||||
| 6/20/25 | 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 Bhagavatam's most extraordinary scenes. In Canto 1, Chapter 9, the greatest warrior of the Mahabharata composes a hymn to Krishna in his final moments, watched by kings, sages, and the Pandavas themselves. Radhika Raman Das (Dr. Ravi Gupta) and host Bhrigupada Dasa examine what the text reveals about conscious dying, the re... | 1h 12m 52s | ||||||
| 6/6/25 | 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 Kunti offers a hymn that inverts every assumption about what prayer is for. Radhika Raman Das (Dr. Ravi Gupta) and host Bhrigupada Dasa examine the theological logic behind her request, the literary craft of the Sanskrit verses, and why the Bhagavatam presents suffering not as something to escape but as a context in which dev... | 1h 11m 59s | ||||||
| 5/23/25 | 1.7 Can You Forgive the Unforgivable? | Bhagavata Podcast with Jayananda Das | Ashvatthama has just committed the most heinous act in the Mahabharata, killing the sleeping sons of the Pandavas. Now Arjuna has him at sword-point. What happens next is one of the most morally complex scenes in Sanskrit literature. In Canto 1, Chapter 7, the Bhagavatam refuses easy answers. Jayananda Das (Dr. Janne Kontala) and host Bhrigupada Dasa explore the tension between justice and mercy, the theological significance of Draupadi's unexpected plea for her enemy's life, and what it mea... | 53m 04s | ||||||
| 5/7/25 | 1.6 Why Does the World's Greatest Scholar Feel Empty? | Bhagavata Podcast with Radhika Raman Das | Vyasadeva has compiled the Vedas, the Puranas, the Mahabharata. By any measure, his life's work is complete. And yet a deep, unnamed dissatisfaction settles over him. What could possibly be missing? In Canto 1, Chapter 6, Narada arrives at Vyasa's ashram and delivers a diagnosis that reframes the entire Bhagavatam project. Radhika Raman Das (Dr. Ravi Gupta) and host Bhrigupada Dasa explore one of the text's most psychologically precise conversations: why scholarly achievement alone cannot re... | 1h 05m 37s | ||||||
| 4/24/25 | 1.5 What If Everything You've Accomplished Still Isn't Enough? | Bhagavata Podcast with Krishna Ksetra Swami | Vyasa had divided the Vedas, composed the Mahabharata, and written more scripture than any author in history. He sat down at dusk on the bank of the Sarasvati and felt empty. His guru Narada arrived and told him: not only have your works failed to satisfy you, they are actively misleading people. In this episode, host Bhrigupada Dasa reads Canto 1, Chapter 5 with Krishna Ksetra Swami (Dr. Kenneth Valpey), returning for a second conversation after their discussion of Chapter 2. This chapter i... | 57m 23s | ||||||
| 4/8/25 | 1.4 Why Does Despair Produce the Greatest Wisdom? | Bhagavata Podcast with Sundar Gopal Das | The Bhagavad Gita begins with Arjuna in crisis. The Ramayana begins with its author's grief. The Srimad Bhagavatam begins with Vyasa's inexplicable emptiness after completing every other text he had ever written. India's greatest literature keeps emerging from its authors' darkest moments. Why? Canto 1, Chapter 4 is a short chapter of 33 verses, but it carries a striking amount of weight. Host Bhrigupada Dasa reads it with Sundar Gopal Das (Simon H.), a doctoral candidate at Oxford Universit... | 1h 03m 45s | ||||||
| 3/26/25 | 1.3 Is Krishna Just Another Avatar — or the Source of All of Them? | Bhagavata Podcast with Radhika Raman Das | The Bhagavatam lists 22 divine descents and then, almost in passing, singles one of them out as different in kind from the rest. That half-verse, "Krishna is Bhagavan himself," became the theological foundation on which the entire Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition was built. Was that a legitimate reading of the text, or a creative imposition on it? In this episode, host Bhrigupada Dasa reads Canto 1, Chapter 3 with Radhika Raman Das (Dr. Ravi Gupta), Professor of Religious Studies at Utah State Un... | 55m 41s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Bhagavata Podcast
Peaked at #2 in Finland, top 10 in 4 of 12 tracked markets, currently #2 in Finland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| United States | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| CZ | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| Australia | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| PL | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| CO | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| South Africa | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| Sweden | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| Italy | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| Germany | — | #79 | #79 | — |
| India | — | #149 | #149 | — |
Chart Positions
12 placements across 12 markets.
Chart Positions
12 placements across 12 markets.