Mahatma Das is the founder of Touchstone Training and produces seminars and trainings on how to practice Krsna consciousness principles in your daily life.

Mahatma Das’ enthusiastic and entertaining style keeps his audiences’ enlivened and stimulated. His unique ability is to help people open up and see their lives and themselves from new and different perspectives - and to get them to take action in their spiritual lives.

Current available seminars are:

v    Living a Life of Total Forgiveness

v    The Use and Misuse of Prayer

v    Vows, Why We Make Them and Why We Break Them

To organize a seminar in your area, contact Mahatma Das at mahatma.acbsp@pamho.net.

The Use and Misuse of Prayer

The course helps you analyze the quality of your own prayers by investigating what is really important for you in your spiritual life. You then develop personalized prayers that address your specific needs.

We often pray to God for material things out of fear, a fear that dictates we petition God to supply our material needs. When we understand and confront this fear, we are able to transform our prayer life. We then realize that faith in God’s protection enables us to freely pray for what is really important, ie. our spiritual advancement.

This course helps you clearly see what kind of devotee you really want to be, what is holding you back from attaining that, and the price you are paying for holding on to unwanted material desires. You then learn how to use prayer to overcome those obstacles and achieve your spiritual goals.

Enlightened Life Directions

Connecting with your unique contribution

This course helps you deeply connect with your unique life purpose in the service of Krsna. This results in tremendous focus, enthusiasm and commitment, and often an out of the box attitude towards making the world Krsna conscious. You will connect to a service that truly inspires you and you will be given the success tools needed to achieve your goals.

Enlightened Communications and

Relationship Building

This course examines the qualities of a pure devotee in relation to communication and relationships. You gain practical skills for counseling, communications, improving relationships and working well with teams.

By looking at what it practically means to be respectful, humble and compassionate, you realize how these qualities are essential for getting along well with others. And you examine how you can better manifest these qualities in you own life.   

Working cooperatively is at the foundation of any successful organization; yet it is often a great

challenge. Teams, committees, temples, or projects will learn how to become closer and work more cooperatively. This naturally generates betters results in their service. 

Living a Life of Total Forgiveness

Spending an entire day focusing on forgiveness enables you to deeply connect with that quality. One of the comments most often received from students is, “I thought I understood forgiveness, but I saw many ways in which I wasn’t forgiving. I learned invaluable tools to help me release resentment that I carried for years. This has played an essential role in my spiritual advancement  - and my own peace of mind.”

Devotees often think spiritual qualities will automatically come when they are advanced and thus they don’t need to focus on developing them now. But it is by practicing these very qualities now that we advance.

Train the Trainer

Learn incredibly effective presentation techniques and philosophies used by the most successful presenters, trainers and facilitators  - and apply them to your preaching programs.

Train the Trainer is based on a five day training Mahatma Das took by one of the most successful seminar presentation companies in America. His course lasts four hours and is based on the essence of what he learned and applied in his own preaching. There will be a second three hour session for those who want learn more about applying these principles to their own preaching, counseling or teaching.

Mahatma Das highly recommends this course because he has seen how it has dramatically improved the effectiveness of any program that involves teaching, counseling, facilitation or lecturing.

Indian Youth Training

(The following course is planned for the future.)

This course will help Indian youth connect more with their culture and their parents values and will teach parents what they can do to aid this, and what they inadvertently do to prevent this.

The proposed idea is: 

Part 1, For Parents: Passing on Your Culture

Part 2, For Youth: Learning Why You Believe  
What You Believe

Part 3, For Parents and Youth ,  Bridging The Gap

The course is designed for Hindus in and outside of Iskcon. More Indians are raising families in the West than ever before and it is difficult for their children to bridge the gap between such divergent cultures. This course is designed to help parents and kids successfully deal with these challenges.