Brahma Das joined the Krishna consciousness movement in Pittsburgh during the summer of 1972 at 19 years of age. He was initiated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1973 and served him as a brahmachari for twelve years.

In 1974 he took part in the first Mayapura-Vrndavana pilgrimage afterwards becoming a member of the newly formed BBT Book Distribution Party under (then) Tripurari dasa brahmachari. In 1975 he was recruited by Tamal Krishna Maharaja and Visnu Jana Swami to join the Radha-Damodhar Traveling Sankirtana Party and served on that party as a bus leader until 1978.

In 1978 Brahma Das went to Bombay to serve again under Tamal Krishna Maharaja. Later he joined the Indian Library Party and traveled to South India selling BBT publications to libraries and religious institutions. During this time he took the opportunity to follow the route taken by Sri Chaitanya on his South Indian tour and visited many of the grand temples and places of pilgrimage touched by Mahaprabhu's footprints.

After the Library Party Brahma Das joined (then) Tribuvanath dasa brahmachari who was in charge of Middle East preaching and served in Dubai, Bahrain and Egypt before being put in charge of Iskcon efforts in war torn Lebanon.

In Middle Eastern countries printing non-Muslim religious books was illegal so Prabhupada's Bhagavad-Gita in Arabic was published in Lebanon, a religiously mixed country. Brahma Das and his party of four sold these historic first Arabic Bhagavad-Gitas on the streets of Beirut until a bombing occurred that landed them all in prison accused of terrorism and murder.

After a few weeks in a PLO prison Brahma Das was deported and returned to the States invited by Tamal Krishna Maharaja to restart the Radha-Damodhar Bus Party. From Dallas he and a few friends took a festival bus on the road eventually parking and establishing a restaurant/center in Austin near the University of Texas. This was the last ride of the Radha-Damodhar Bus Party. Afterwards Brahma Das served as Iskcon Temple President in Portland Ore.

In 1981 Brahma Das connected with his siksa guru Srila B.R. Sridhar Maharaja and co-founded in San Jose, California the first western temple affiliated with Srila Sridhar Maharaja. Although this temple had a GBC representative and was to be connected with Iskcon it was not accepted as such by the Iskcon Governing Body.

At the GBC meeting that year in Mayapura a resolution was issued stating that the "San Jose Temple is not a part of Iskcon" and further resolutions prohibiting association with Srila Sridhar Maharaja followed. Thus Brahma Das and associates who would not relinquish their connection with Srila Sridhar Maharaja were effectively the first devotees to be excommunicated from Iskcon.

Over the next decade Brahma Das served in San Jose and various places involved with publishing and presenting the combined teachings of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Sridhar Maharaja. He was instrumental in publishing Search for Sri Krishna and Sri Guru and His Grace, which were Srila Sridhar Maharaja's first books in English. He is now married and lives in San Francisco, California. There he is connected to the mission of Swami Tripurari serving as editor of SANGA, Swami's question and answer on-line newsletter. SANGA is the largest and most successful Internet presentation of its kind in contemporary Gaudiya Vaisnavism.