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85 episodes
since Sept. 28, 2024
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Every year, a couple of weeks after Diwali, families all over India dress a tulsi plant like a bride and marry her to Vishnu. But who was Tulsi before she was a plant? Neev and his mom travel to the icy valley of Badri, where a princess named Tulsi prays for years to marry Vishnu. Instead, she mar…

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Narada, the wandering sage who's always singing "Narayan, Narayan," is sure he's the greatest devotee of Vishnu in the whole universe. So Vishnu takes him to Earth in disguise to meet someone surprising: a poor farmer. Neev and his mom follow Narada into a tiny hut with almost …
Seeing the new Ramayana movie? Start here. Neev and his mom race through the whole Ramayana in about 12 minutes, with no movie spoilers. Prince Rama breaks Shiva's mighty bow and marries Sita. Queen Kaikeyi's two wishes send him into the forest for fourteen years, and his brother Bharata …
Where did Vishnu's spinning disc, the Sudarshan Chakra, come from? It starts with a thousand lotus flowers, a test from Shiva, and one flower that goes missing.Neev and his mom tell the story of how Shiva gave Vishnu the chakra, including a lesser-known version where Vishnu tests it on Shiva h…
Why was the Earth at the bottom of the ocean, and why did Vishnu have to become a giant boar to bring it back? It all starts at a door. Four tiny, barefoot visitors walk up to Vishnu's home. They look like little kids, but they're some of the wisest sages in the universe. When Vishnu&apos…
Where did Garuda, the giant eagle who carries Vishnu, come from? It starts with two sisters, a pure white horse, and a bet that was rigged from the start. When Kadru cheats her sister Vinata into becoming her servant, Vinata's son Garuda sets out to win her freedom. The price is the amrita, th…
The gods have lost heaven itself to the mighty demon king Bali, the most generous ruler who ever lived. So Vishnu comes down to help, and this time he arrives in his smallest form ever: Vamana, a little boy with a wooden bowl. At Bali's grand ceremony, where the king gives away anything anyone…
A little prince named Dhruva just wants to sit on his father's lap, but he's coldly told he doesn't belong there. Heartbroken, this tiny boy makes an enormous decision: he walks alone into the forest to find a place higher than any throne.With the help of the wandering sage Narada, D…
A proud king who loved God a little too much is cursed to be reborn as Gajendra, the mightiest elephant in the world.  One hot afternoon, he leads his herd into a beautiful lake for a drink — and a crocodile clamps onto his leg and won't let go. What follows is the longest tug-of-war imaginabl…
The gods have lost everything to a careless curse.  And the only way to win it back is the hardest job in the universe: churning the entire ocean. In this episode, gods and demons team up (badly), a mountain becomes a churning rod, a giant serpent becomes the rope, and Vishnu becomes a mighty torto…
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