1.18 A King, a Curse, and a Seven-Day Deadline | Bhagavata Podcast with Manjari Devi Dasi
About this episode
The episode discusses a king's impulsive mistake leading to a curse from a young brahmin boy, pivotal to the Bhagavatam's narrative.
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...
People in this episode
Host: Bhrigupada Dasa
Guest: Manjari Devi Dasi
Topics covered
- king
- curse
- Bhagavatam
- Hinduism
- spirituality
- impulsive mistake
Keywords
- Bhagavatam
- king
- curse
- brahmin
- spirituality
- Hinduism
- seven days
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Åbo Akademi University, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Bhaktivedanta College
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