The Bhagavata Podcast

2.2 What the Manosphere Gets Wrong About Worth | Bhagavata Podcast with Shaunaka Rishi Das

April 27, 2026·56 min
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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 a pillow at all? These two visions of the good life are further apart than they look — and closer together than you'd expect. Canto 2, Chapter 2 continues Shukadeva Goswami's answer to Pariksit's question: what should a person do who is about to die? Shaunaka Rishi Das, director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, joins host ...

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