The Heart of a Vaishnava

Exploring the power of humility and self honesty in Bhakti

This workshop is the result of years of personal study and reflection on the topics of humility and self-honesty and how these qualities affect our relationship with ourselves, devotees and with Krsna.

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What to expect

From this Workshop

In this workshop, you will discover how your degree of humility affects your:

Relationships and ability to cooperate with others
Tendency to either see the good or faults in others
Ability to handle and benefit from criticism
Awareness of your own shortcomings and anarthas
Desire to seek or enjoy honor
The image that you project to others
Ability to chant purely.
Your relationship with guru and Krishna.

workshop DATE & TIME:

Group 1:

Oct 25 & 26

6-9:30PM EDT

Group 2:

Nov 9 & 10

7-10:30AM EDT

host

HG Mahatma Prabhu

The paradox of humility is explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta as:

“The best of all persons deems himself to be less than all others. Such is the great dictum. One who serves Lord Hari counts himself as the least of all entities. One is lifted to the highest order of the Vaishnavas when one can feel himself the least of all.”

What You'll Learn

Deeper understanding

Better understand the essential importance of humility in the practice of bhakti.

Cost of pride

Discover subtle ways pride motivates your actions.

Increase your desire for humility

Gain a greater desire to both practice and experience humility

The Harinama Cintamani states that humility is the ornament of prema. The Brhad Bhagavatamrita says that humility is non-different than prema.

The workshop involves:

Learning what shastra and our acharyas say about humility and fault-finding
Hearing how great devotees practically manifest humility in their lives
Reflecting on how these teachings and stories apply to your life
Participating in self-exploratory exercises that reveal subtle aspects of pride and false ego that motivate your actions - and how this affects your bhakti;
Learning how to handle, appreciate, and benefit from criticism against you;
Understanding your motives and needs behind your criticisms of others;
Discovering ways in which you can manifest greater levels of humility both internally and externally.

Strengthen Your Bhakti

Through humiltiy

“We have to become more tolerant than a tree, and more humble than a blade of grass. If we can just cultivate these two qualities, then we can advance in Krishna consciousness.” ~ Srila Prabhupada

This workshop is the result of years of personal study and reflection on the topics of humility and pride, appreciation and fault-finding, and self-honesty and false ego, and how these affect our relationship with ourselves, devotees and with Krishna.

We also explore the subject of pretense, acting in ways to get others to believe things about us.

This is a highly self-reflective workshop that helps you understand what is motivating your need to impress others and how being small is both the happiest position to be in and the only position from which we can become completely Krishna conscious. Honestly, it requires some bravery to take this course because we confront our false egos. But this is necessary.

Host

HG Mahatma Prabhu

HG Mahatma Prabhu has given workshops on humility and weekend retreats in multiple parts of the world, helping devotees deepen their practice and overcome common obstacles.

His humor and depth of understanding, mixed with his years of experience makes it simple and easy to understand the contents of the course and put them into practice and immediately see the benefits.

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