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2.8 Why God Must Be Fantastical | Bhagavata Podcast with Advaita Das

2.8 Why God Must Be Fantastical | Bhagavata Podcast with Advaita Das22 sep53 min

Philosophy decided two thousand years ago that God cannot have a body. Every body is material, limited, reducible. If you want God to be eternal and unlimited, he cannot be bodied. The Bhagavatam's answer to that is a baby stealing butter and peeing in the house of a cowherd woman. Canto 2, Chapter 8 is the hinge on which the entire Purana turns. Pariksit has seven days left and has already received his practical instructions: fix the mind on Vishnu, chant the name of Narayana. Now he asks th...