“It is taking a lot of guts to ask this question. 4 months ago, I collapsed on my chair and was admitted in the hospital. I was diagnosed of ‘anxiety and panic attack’. I was given medicines and therapy. I practice gratitude and also meditate. And actually, everything is going very well in my life! But I still get these panic attacks and lose control of myself. Doctors say it is all clinical. Can you please help me, Mahatria?”Mahatria empathizes deeply with the seeker and gives a practical solution to the panic attack.Listen to the podcast to understand the solution and most importantly you can be that solution for many around you.

What was the parting message of Buddha that can lead us to a life of growth? On this auspicious day of Buddha Purnima let us understand the valuable message through this podcast where Mahatria delves deeper into the message and gives a contemporary application to the age-old wisdom. Mahatria highlights how Buddha's love for humanity is all-inclusive and uplifting, and how we should follow his example to live a life of peace and purpose. 

Is it wrong to have expectations? Mahatria says that it doesn't matter if expectations are right or wrong; what matters is that humans' expectations are unavoidable. He further elaborates that to make life easier, you can learn to manage your expectations and simplify life for yourself and your loved ones. Mahatria offers a few thoughts you can imbibe in your life to manage your expectations with maturity.

Why is it that the ideas and values of the previous generation are always mocked by the next generation? Why even legends who inspired the whole world, could not inspire their immediate kith and kin at times? What gives rise to this conflict and disharmony? “Most of us complicate the roles of our life, because we focus on our secondary role, forgetting what our primary responsibility is”, says Mahatria. Within your family, what is your primary role? A father or a mother or an elder sibling, isn’t it? Pushing the primary role to the back seat, we tend to philosophize… Mahatria throws the spotlight on the issue and gives a solution in this podcast. 

Whatever be the addiction, it simply means that 'it' is in control of your life and you have become a slave to 'it'. Addicted to social media robs you of your precious time and in most cases, leads you towards unhappiness and disaster. When addicted to social media, you will not have the time for what is important to you, like urgent professional needs and being with even close relationships.Mahatria emphasizes in this podcast that the only way to get rid of Social Media addiction is by simply staying away from it. You will have to drop anything that is robbing your time and disturbing your peace.

Mahatria says that if you want to improve your life slightly, continue with what you have been doing, but if you wish for a transformative change, meditation is the way to go. He urges you to realize the power of silence. When you meditate, you drop your entire form and merge into the formless, and when you do so, some part of the mortal is removed, and divine is added. Through this podcast, Mahatria encourages you to find out what form of meditation suits your personality because it will bring about a revolutionary change!

Mahatria encourages everyone to look up to growth rather than looking down with self-pity. He urges you to focus on improving your life rather than focusing on negativity and complaints. He says that in any aspect of life, either you can be a beggar or a giver. Why choose to be a beggar when you can live to give? Mahatria points out that 'The spark has to come from within'. He asks you to understand that you are significant and can be a source of happiness. He says that the best way to live life is with the motto, 'Nothing should make you happy, but everything should make you happy.'

Mahatria illustrates how transient one's life is, by highlighting the grand scheme of life. He further emphasizes that even though your life may seem trivial, it is actually not so. You were created with care by the creator. The creator has neither created one like you before nor after your creation. He says that you are an instrument of God, and there are puzzles in life that only you can solve and change. Through this podcast, he encourages you to celebrate life and your unique beauty!

Why do we need to train our minds through meditation? In this podcast, Mahatria says that the man's mind is the man. Unless we transform the mind, we can't transform the man. He elaborates that human bodies are designed to localize themselves, but the mind is designed to wander. You need to train your mind because an untrained mind makes you a vagabond. Only with a trained mind, you begin to know yourself and make more mature choices. The training that we give to achieve a concentrated mind is meditation. There are many ways to calm your mind and focus. When you perform an action that makes you oblivious of everything else while being consciously engaged, it is called meditation.

Mahatria says that religion is the highest form of science! The rituals, which one perceives as a superstition, professed by every religion have the highest integration of psychological reality into the daily life of a follower of that religion. Mahatria explains in this podcast that rituals are a form of the action-feeling cycle. We can't alter what we feel at will, but we have more control over our actions. And rituals are the actions that transform our feeling-domain through certain spiritual disciplines.