In this episode of the Bhagavata Podcast, Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr Måns Broo) welcomes back Radhika Ramana Dasa (Dr Ravi Gupta) to explore Canto 1, Chapter 15: The Pandavas Retire Timely. Beginning with Arjuna’s confirmation of Krishna’s departure, the conversation traces grief, remembrance, and vipralambha, love intensified through separation. Through close reading and lived reflection, the episode explores how loss dismantles worldly identity and reveals Arjuna’s deeper identity as Krishna’s friend.

The dialogue moves through luminous Sanskrit verses, the withdrawal of divine power, Draupadi’s agency, and the Bhagavata’s post-Mahabharata clearing of the stage. The chapter closes by returning to the Bhagavad Gita within the Bhagavata and the phala shruti promise: devotion to Hari as the true perfection.

Chapters

00:05 Welcome

03:20 Krishna Departs

08:10 Naming Krishna

14:00 Love in Separation

19:40 Power Withdrawn

24:30 Humbling Loss

31:45 True Identity

38:20 World Without Krishna

45:00 When to Renounce

56:30 Devotion as the Goal

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In this episode of the Bhagavata Podcast, Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr Måns Broo) welcomes back Jayananda Dasa (Dr Janne Kontala) to explore Canto 1, Chapter 14: The Disappearance of Lord Krishna. The conversation follows Yudhishthira’s growing anxiety as strange omens appear, Arjuna’s delayed return becomes ominous, and the unspoken fear of Krishna’s departure hangs between the brothers. Through close reading and lived experience, they unpack how exalted devotees can simultaneously be spiritually realized and emotionally shaken.

The dialogue ranges from the anthropology of omens to yogic subtle anatomy, from Yudhishthira’s pastoral sensitivity to the paradox of vipralambha, love deepened through separation. What emerges is a chapter where feeling leads the philosophy, and where loss becomes the very means of intensifying remembrance of Krishna.

00:25 Welcome & Setup
01:48 Summary of the Chapter
05:37 Devotees and Human Emotion
08:29 Love in Separation
10:20 Omens: Superstition or Insight?
12:35 Strange Signs in Nature & Temples
18:58 Body, Breath & Subtle Anatomy
27:33 Deities Crying & Arjuna’s Return
29:50 Yudhishthira’s Careful Questioning
42:05 Krishna’s Disappearance & Closing Reflections

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In this episode of the Bhagavata Podcast, Bhrigupada Dasa (Dr. Mans Broo) welcomes Sundar Gopal Das to explore Canto 1, Chapter 13: Dhritarashtra Quits Home. The conversation traces Vidura’s return from pilgrimage, his tough love that awakens Dhritarashtra to seek his ultimate good, and the secret night departure to the forest with Gandhari. Narada arrives with forward-looking counsel, asking Yudhishthira not to interfere and foretelling Dhritarashtra’s yogic end in five days. Along the way, the dialogue reflects on mortality, forgiveness, grief, and how the Bhagavata’s layered storytelling (stories within stories) keeps past, present, and future in view.

Themes include the discipline of speech (truthful, kind, beneficial), the danger of power without conscience, saints as living tirthas, and viraha, the ache of separation that runs through Canto One. Sanjaya’s devotion, Yudhishthira’s nonresentment, and Bhima’s sharp edge offer contrasting models of response. The episode also pauses on time and urgency: why insight often ripens only when the horizon comes into view.

Chapters

00:05 Invocation and welcome
01:08 Guest intro and why this chapter matters
02:42 Summary: Vidura returns, tough love, and the night departure
04:43 Why the Bhagavata jumps in time
05:49 Story within a story: emboxment explained
07:51 Vidura as a manifestation of Yama
09:31 Narada’s teaching on the world’s harsh cycles
12:01 Sanjaya’s grief and loyalty
13:56 Power, reckoning, and the Gita backdrop
16:22 A caution when you are strong
19:40 Saints make places holy: the tirtha verse
22:10 Tough love in practice: Vidura to Dhritarashtra
29:11 Krishna’s wake-up call to Arjuna as a parallel
37:25 Why Dhritarashtra finally changes
40:29 Time, turning 50, and urgency
43:00 Krishna as time and the limits of control
46:14 Hidden news and compassionate silence
48:36 Yudhishthira’s nonresentment (Ajatashatru)
52:31 Bhima’s contrast
55:13 Letting go: a simple practice from everyday life
59:20 Narada’s guidance to Yudhishthira
64:25 What becomes of Sanjaya
66:41 Closing

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