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We're living our lives with various masks and we're so attached to them that we've started to identify ourselves with and as those masks. So, before we get to Who am I, it's important to understand who am I, Not.
This episode uses the character building process that actors use and a verse of an Upanishad that will help us identify those masks that we're not.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

If life is a movie where do the sad scenes come from and how can we get out of them?
Before you can write the end of your movie you need to get behind the scenes to see who wrote the sad and happy scenes and why.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Are we living in a simulation theory? What if our current life is just one season in a series spanning over millions of seasons? Is this life a movie?
This episode draws parallels between our life and a movie using the spiritual wisdom of Self-realized masters and scriptures.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Craving, addiction, Ex partner, memory of loved ones, and the world, the illusion - we're all together in this journey of letting go. What we're all seeking underneath this letting go is freedom. Freedom from bondage. Who bonded us - us so,. who can free us? only us. 

In this episode I share some of the common practices of letting go and their limitations and present the absolute way of letting go from a scripture called Bhagavad-Gita.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Letting go, something that all humans are working individually as well as together. Letting go of an Ex partner, relationship, memories of loved ones who're no longer with us, or even addictions and old habits. 

We all have different things to let go and thus different ways to let go.

But do we actually know what we are letting go of? 
After my break up I used the lens of the most ancient wisdom to zoom in on what I was holding onto before learning how to let go.

In this episode I share exactly what's inside our mind that we want to let go of.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

It's hard to let go of the attachments to past partners, habits, memories of loved ones, addiction, and beliefs. Until we find our biggest motivation to let go we keep falling back into the same pattern. Sometimes that motivation comes in the form of fear of death and sometimes love of life and leaves us with the biggest gift of our life. The gifts that often come through pain but teaches us just the lesson that we need in order to break out of the pattern and go up.

3.5 years ago, a heart-break gave me that gift to find the biggest love of my life. That helped me uncover not just why my relationship failed but also who I had become. 

After meeting a lot of friends who are going through a similar journey  I decided to go back down the dark memory lane with the torch of ancient wisdom and share the tools that helped me in my healing journey. Hope this helps you too.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Break-ups are the best things that can happen to you. Break up means breaking up old habits, patterns, conditionings to go up for an upgrade as a human.
In this episode I share how a break-up sent me on a healing journey that gifted me with the highest upgrade a human can ever have.
It may not sound so motivating when you're going through a break up, divorce, or separation but when you come out on the other side and you reflect back you'll realize that it was the best thing that happened to you making you want to thank the person with love and gratitude for the most wonderful gift, break-up.
As for every upgrade you pay a price, whether it's an upgrade of an airplane seat, an upgrade of your mobile device you pay a price for this upgrade of a human life and that price is Pain.
If you look back in your life at everything you've achieved you'll see that you paid the price through pain, the biggest teacher for everyone rich or poor, human or animal.
I paid my price and in return what I got was the best upgrade a human can ever need - the journey within, the journey to the Self.
To break out of my break up I resumed studying the most ancient wisdom about mind, body, and Self and practicing the meditation of Self-realized masters. Something I grew up with but lost touch in chasing name, fame, and money.
After 3.5 years of my healing journey I decided to share these time tested & proven tools with the world hoping it will help a lot of people go through their break up with more ease and grace.
I'll be posting six episodes on the milestones explained in this video.

WATCH this episode on YouTube.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Is it possible to end suffering? If yes, is there one solution to end all suffering? This episode will help you learn how did Self-realized masters end their suffering through the most ancient time tested and proven method also mentioned in Vedic scriptures.

If you're interested in learning how to end your suffering please reach out to us below.

You can watch this episode on YouTube Here: https://youtu.be/7l6LxI-0uJs

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode will help you learn why we suffer and what is the one cause all the suffering as per the most ancient wisdom of Self-realized masters and Vedic scriptures.
We tend to focus on problems separately by working on their respective causes. What if we work on the cause of all the problems and suffering? Wouldn't that be more efficient?

After a heart- break when I decided to work on the root cause, it led me to the root cause of all the suffering that you, me, and everybody share in common.

In the next episode I'll be sharing the one solution to end all  suffering.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode will give you a comparison between mindfulness and meditation as per the most ancient wisdom.
Is mindfulness a meditation or meditation mindfulness? 
In this episode you can learn the origin, the differences, and the oldest references from the ancient scriptures to help you make an informed decision before you take a class of either practices. 

We practice and teach the most ancient meditation practice (Dhyana) as mentioned in Vedas and practiced by Self-realized masters. And we would love to share that with you.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Health (physical and mental), Relationships (family, partner, friends) , Job/Career (like/love/hate) are three major pillars of problems that most of us including me are trying to solve; something that brings us together as humans. This episode lists the problems that you, me, and almost all humans share, the problems that I am committed to solving through the most ancient wisdom. This is the foundation of season 2 of Journey to the Self, the problems to which I will be sharing the solutions in coming episodes. 

 Following a heart attack (near death experience in 2015) and a heart break in 2019 (more painful than the heart attack) I turned to the most ancient wisdom from Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Self-realized masters to solve my problems. About a year ago I began sharing some of those teachings through YouTube as well as Podcast as season 1. During these past 3 years I met a lot of people from different parts of the world and different walks of life and I found that we're all seeking the same thing -  Happiness except we are looking in the wrong places. That is already with the Self.

I'm on the same path as you while going through similar problems: physical and mental health, mother's schizophrenia, family's disapproval of my career choices, living a single life in Los Angeles looking for love and company of like-minded people, community, live a comfortable life while pursuing my dream and living my highest purpose.

In this episode I share how I plan on achieving all of the above by applying the most ancient wisdom and hopefully help others like me along the journey to the Self, the longest, most difficult, and also the most rewarding journey of a human life.

My vision is to offer this platform journey to the Self as a home for anyone to come to in order to go to our true-home, the Self.

Arise. Awake. Stop not until the goal is reached.

The journey begins from where you are.

Begin your journey now.

Prabhakar

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

Controlling the mind is a problem humans have been trying to solve every since  the humanity have existed. Over 5500 years ago a warrior named Arjuna asked this question to Krishna, the dialogue has been recorded in a book called Bhagavad Gita. This videos explains the universal solution to our universal problem of controlling the mind as practiced by Self-realized masters.

To learn more about these ancient teachings from Vedic scriptures and Self-realized masters please join our free weekly online Satsang, a global community of true seekers seeking the truth about mind, meditation, and Self realization. every Sunday 8 am PST.

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To learn the most ancient meditation (Dhyana yoga) and path to Self-realization as practiced by Self-realized saints and explained in Vedas please book a free call here:

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The Journey begins from where you are.
- Maharshi Mehi

Thank you and Happy Journey to the Self!
Prabhakar

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode is a compilation of ancient wisdom from Vedas and other ancient scriptures about eating meat & eggs.  I also share why I personally switched to vegetarian diet after being a carnivore for over two decades. 

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode explains two parts of our mind and  how Self- realized saints achieved a fully focused mind by merging the two.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode begins the new segment of the podcast Journey to the Self. We’ve named this segment “The Daily Satsang”. Satsang means (sat + sang) company of truth. Truth is what does not change. The only thing that does not change is the Self that’s within every being. 
The journey to Self is the longest journey and therefore, we need to keep ourselves, our minds elevated and absorbed in the journey and the goal. 
That’s why we need daily dose of these ancient teachings about the Self— Satsang.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode continues why understanding the Self is important and thus why Self-realization is the ultimate goal for every being - the reason for our birth-death-birth-death-birth...

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episodes explores various ways we know self as and sheds light on the meaning and  characteristics of the true Self that lives within every being as explained in 5000+ years old scripture called Bhagavad-Gita. 

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

On my Birthday today I decided to do a special episode on where do we come from in our mother's womb and what happens there and after we come out of the womb. The what, the why, and the how of the cycle of birth and death.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode zooms into the origin and nature of our thoughts to explain our experience and reality in the so called 'now' or 'present'.
It also introduces a topic "nine holes & me" the game every humans plays during the wakeful state and what's the end of the game.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode explains how we all have the same Intellect of Buddha within us and why we are not able to access it fully.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode introduces "Conditioning" to explain how our life and experience on weekday vs. weekend is a result of our own conditioning. It goes deeper into understanding how conditioning  works inside the mind before we start to reverse that and un-condition many aspects of our life that are not serving us anymore.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode explains how and why we live differently on weekdays (Mon-Fri) vs. weekends and who is responsible for these different experiences and realities on a day to day basis.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode explores  how the mind becomes our best friend and our worst enemy as explained in Bhagvad Geeta.  It further provides a closer look into one of the biggest battles happening in our mind - the battle between the fear and the freedom; and how the fear often wins over the freedom.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode continues the story of the five horses in the chariot representing  five senses in the human body to explain that the list of desires to fulfill the senses and the mind will never end but the body will, one day. 

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode continues the story of the chariot and the human body to explain how our mental diseases such as anger, lust, greed, depression, anxiety, insomnia arise and where they are rooted. 

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode continues the analogy of a human body with a chariot from last episode and goes further to explain why Self-Knowledge is the highest knowledge for a human. And therefore, journey to the Self is the biggest and final journey a human can take.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode explores a verse from an ancient scripture called Katha Upanishad  to explain the human reality and human experience.  It uses an analogy of a chariot's ride to a human's ride or life journey where the chariot represents the human body, five horses in the chariot represent the five senses, the reins represent the mind, the charioteer represent the intellect, and the passenger in the chariot represent the Self.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

This episode will take you on a journey of comparison between the Oscars of Hollywood and the Oscar of every human, the Self. And why is it important to work towards the Oscar, the Self that is already present within every being but ironically, everyone is looking for that outside.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi

In this episode I share why I decided to leave everything to follow the biggest journey of a human life - Journey to the Self.

"The Journey begins from where you are."
- Maharshi Mehi