The Path of Love Classes

I met with Roger Christie twice this week and will be going to his wor­ship at 4:20 today. Start­ing Wednes­day, May 24th, 7:00 pm, I’m going to be teach­ing “The Path of Love” in the Hawai’i Cannabis Min­istry Sanc­tu­ary. I’ve net­worked with oth­ers and looked for peo­ple to work with and a place to teach. Roger is the most open, wel­com­ing guy I know. He’s a real min­is­ter to many per­sons. He’s from New Jer­sey and just three years younger than me so we have a lot in com­mon. I’m from Brooklyn.

It reminds me of the early sev­en­ties when I was in Ams­ter­dam as a san­nyasi and went to DeKos­mos, a hash club, and taught The Path of Love in the base­ment. Unfor­tu­nately, I was not par­ti­ak­ing in those days. Roger and I agree that it is really too bad Swamiji cut peo­ple off from the sacra­ment. I really believe cannabis, mush­rooms and other psy­che­delics are con­ducive to devel­op­ment of pure love of God. Heck, even Swamiji went to the Psy­che­delic Shop on Haight Street to chant and preach in their back room. I lived in a com­mune on Ash­bury Street when I met Swamiji and smoked in the car on the way to the air­port when he first arrived there in Jan­u­ary, 1967. Many of us hip­pies enjoyed chant­ing, hear­ing Swamiji talk and eat­ing prasadam. We became his dis­ci­ples. He asked a lot of us and some of us did what he said. How­ever, there comes a time to be an adult, be in charge of your own life, decide what works for you and what doesn’t and live your own life.

The Path of Love

An on going series of devo­tional yoga classes based on the teach­ings of the 15th cen­tury mystic/incarnation, Sri Krishna Chai­tanya. They are pre­sented in a post-modern, holis­tic way with a uni­ver­sal­ist approach. 19th cen­tury, Ben­gali devo­tional teacher, Bhak­tivin­ode Thakur’s book, Sri Chaitanya-Shikshamrita, forms the start­ing point of the teach­ings. They are offered in a way that is eas­ily under­stand­able, prac­ticed and rel­e­vant to our lives here and now. This is a sen­si­ble and uplift­ing means of real­iz­ing our rela­tion­ship with God and enter­ing into the tran­scen­den­tal pas­times of Radha and Krishna, the Divine Cou­ple. The path is sim­ple yet sub­lime. Love is the answer.

Wednes­days, 7:00 pm (Drop in)
The Sanc­tu­ary
94 Kame­hameha Avenue, Suite 3, Hilo
2nd floor, next door to Cronies

Dona­tions accepted

Subal Das (Steve Bohlert, M.Div.) is a dis­ci­ple of Lalita Prasad Thakur, the son and dis­ci­ple of Bhak­tivin­ode Thakur. Subal is a cut­ting edge devo­tee of Radha & Krishna, the Divine Cou­ple. He pre­pares per­sons to be their tran­scen­den­tal asso­ciates by fol­low­ing the Path of Love. Subal draws upon the best of ancient and mod­ern mys­ti­cal wis­dom from var­i­ous spir­i­tual tra­di­tions and presents a devo­tional mys­ti­cism that cuts through exter­nals to the ker­nel of truth, beauty and love. He was ini­ti­ated into The Path of Love in 1967 by A.C. Bhak­tivedanta Swami and was his dis­ci­ple for eight years. In 1974, he received advanced ini­ti­a­tion and instruc­tion from his sid­dha pranali guru, Lalita Prasad Thakur. Subal spent three years in India liv­ing in the holy places and study­ing with var­i­ous teach­ers. He taught The Path of Love exten­sively through­out India, North Amer­ica, Europe, Hawaii and Fiji. He now lives in Puna.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion: call (808) 965‑7028 or see www.stevebohlert.com

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