presenters – Mahatma Das

dates – saturday, august 26th

times – 7:15am – 8:30pm

admission – We are pleased to offer this community event as a service to you in your spiritual journey.  To help cover basic expenses and support our presenter, we invite participants to leave a donation according to their means. If you would like to support, please click the donate button below.

location – the Bhakti Center Temple room

for any questions, please contact Champakalata at Champaka@bhakticenter.org 

Srila Prabhupada said that higher than saving others is to save oneself. Self-love, therefore, is at the heart of any successful spiritual practice. Through decades of counseling and conducting workshops, it has become evident to Mahatma Das that a lack of self-care and compassion is at the heart of many devotee’s spiritual problems. 

In this unique workshop you’ll learn: 1. The many places in our books where this topic is explained. 2. How self-care and self-compassion are essentially important for your spiritual success. 3. Which of your spiritual challenges may be caused by a lack of self-love – even caused by self-hatred. 4. How your japa might be negatively impacted by a lack of self-love. 5. How your feelings that Krsna doesn’t care about you stem from a lack of self-love. 6. Where the “I don’t care” mentality comes from and how to change it into a mentality that fosters the healthy self-care, self-compassion and self-love needed to nourish your Krishna consciousness. 7. How self-care is foundational to caring for others. 

We all agree that caring for devotees with love and compassion is important; but we all don’t understand or acknowledge that doing this for ourselves is even more essential.

Schedule for the day:

7:15-8:00AM Session 1: Bhagavatam class

8:00-8:30AM Deity Greeting & Guru Puja

8:30AM Breakfast

9:30-11:00AM Session 2

11:15-12:30PM Session 3

12:30PM Lunch

1:30-3:00PM Session 4

3:15-4:45PM Session 5

5:00-6:30PM Session 6

6:30-7:30PM Dinner

7:30-8:30PM Harinam

Mahatma Das was born in Los Angeles, California in 1950. In 1969, at the age of 19, he first met Srila Prabhupada through The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, and then later that year met Srila Prabhupada personally in Los Angeles. In January of 1970 he moved into the temple in Berkeley, California and shortly after received first and second initiation.

He went on to do a variety of services including book distribution, sankirtan leader, temple president, college preaching, congregational development, and various educational projects. This has culminated in the work he does today developing workshops, social media, online courses and books both for devotees as well as the general public through his company Sattva . He practically shows the many ways that Krishna consciousness offers solutions to today’s challenges and writes and teaches in a way that resonates with devotees and people in general by helping them see life as a spiritual practice

Mahatma Prabhu is well known in ISKCON for his recorded and live music, most notably his recording of Brahma Samhita, but also for his workshops on such essential topics as Japa, Forgiveness, Humility, Vows and Marriage.

He is now based in Alachua, Florida he lives with his wife Jahnava and daughter Brajasundari, and travels about four months a year.