33 – The Bhagavad Gita

The Greek tragedian Euripides gave the world perhaps the most villainous woman ever created: Medea, the scorned wife who murders her own children. But can we trace this mythological figure back to a real-life historical woman who migrated to Greece in the late Bronze Age? In this ...  Show more

How do we think about planet Earth? What's our relationship with it? Humans since the Enlightenment have been tempted to believe we've transformed and even - perhaps - tamed it. And yet, Earth is independent of us, and indifferent. In this episode, Jacke talks to Kir Kuiken, whos ...  Show more

The Bhagavad Gita didn't start life as an exclusively religious text but over the two thousand years since it was composed the verses have taken on many different layers of meaning. For millions of Hindus today, the Gita has a similar scriptural status to the Quran for Muslims or ...  Show more

On the classic Hindu text (ca. the 3rd century B.C.E.), part of the Indian Epic poem Mahabharata, attributed to Vyasa, using Keya Maitra's 2018 translation/commentary. What is it to live wisely? What grounds duty? Listen as the supreme God Krishna convinces archer hero Arjuna tha ...  Show more

Arjun listens to the enlightening words from Krishna.On the first day of the war, Krishna drives Arjuna's chariot to the middle of the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Watching Bhishma, Drona, Kripa and many of his relatives and friends assembled on the Kaurava side as his opponent, A ...  Show more