About Mahakatha

We exist to help you heal through sound.

Mahakatha is a small, self-funded team of eight. We take ancient mantras, slow them down, layer them with intentional music, and let them reach wherever they need to go. No lineage. No denomination. Just healing.

What we've built

How it started

Mantras found us before we found them. It began with a prayer our grandfather taught — just names of gods, nothing fancy. Forty years later, we still know it by heart.

In college, with a cheap mic and a basic desktop running Windows Sound Forge, we recorded a two-track album for Lord Ganesha. We printed cassettes and donated them to temples. Seeing those cassettes played across temples gave us something we didn't have a word for yet.

Years later, during a pregnancy in the family, our sister Preeti would come home from her yoga class and sing the Nirvana Shatakam — close to the womb, every day at the same time. One day she was late. And at the exact time the chanting usually began, the baby kicked. That was the moment we understood: sound carries something deeper than words.

In 2014, we put out one mantra video on YouTube in Preeti's voice and forgot about it. A year later, it had gone viral. The comments were overwhelming — people had been listening on repeat, chanting along, finding peace in a voice they'd never met.

That was the beginning of Mahakatha. We haven't stopped since.

How we make mantras

We take traditional mantras and slow them down. We make them reflective, more meaningful, more soulful. We give them a new pathway to lead into your inner self.

Preeti's Carnatic-trained voice is the soul of every recording. The music is intentional — not background noise, but a carefully crafted journey. Every mantra, every tune, every sound is made with one intention: to help you heal.

We research and curate every mantra at the beginning. The pronunciation, the diction, the meaning — we take care of all of it. The scholastic nature of Vedic scriptures is vast and deep, and it takes years to master. We are getting there. But one thing stands above everything: our intention.

Every page on this site follows a rigorous structure: lyrics in Sanskrit, transliteration, word-by-word meaning, how to chant, benefits, and frequently asked questions. Nothing is left vague.

The team

We are a small, tight-knit team. We are not a big corporation, and we have not taken any funding. We are where we are because of our love for what we do. We treat each email, each listener, with as much respect as we treat each mantra we record.

Where you'll find us

Our mantras have been featured on Healthline and played at the Burning Man festival. Yoga studios around the world use our recordings as their opening practice — one studio has used our Yogena Chittasya as their opening prayer for over four years.

From temples in Himachal to Indian stores in Canada, from ex-cricketers' playlists to living rooms across six continents — our listeners have carried Mahakatha further than we ever imagined. We have customers in every corner of the world, and every one of them reminds us why we do this.

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