Background
Suhotra Swami was born as Roger Terrence Crowley in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Suhotra Swami was born as Roger Terrence Crowley in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
He also served as a chairman of the GBC. In 1972 he became a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, receiving the name Suhotra Dasa. In the 1970s he was a part of a travelling troupe of Hare Krishnas, who were preaching all over the United States, performing kirtans on the streets and distributing spiritual literature. What he"s doing has nothing to do with the knowledge Krishna describes.
These rascals go on for a while cheating people but gradually - just like John Lennon, he wised up to the Maharishi and wrote that song Sexy Sadie - they"ll get bitter, and turn sour on this guy and his mystic bag of tricks.
In India they have organizations that our spiritual master describes as Mystic Factories. These are places where they manufacture Gods.
They learn a smattering of scriptures, so they can quote whatever they want. Guru Maharaj Ji has obviously been trained up in some hypnosis and things like that, and he"s come over from India to make a lot of money off the Americans.
He"s dragging real spiritual life through the dirt.
In 1983 Suhotra Dasa accepted the order of sannyasa. In 1996 he was elected GBC Chairman. In 1991 Suhotra Swami wrote his first book Apasampradayas - Deviant Vaisnava Sects.
lieutenant was about Gaudiya Vaishnava Apasampradayas that developed in between the time of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Bhaktivinoda Thakur.
In the book he also explained how Bhaktivinoda was preaching against them. Suhotra Swami died on April 7, 2007, in Mayapur, West Bengal.
Kimmo Ketola, one of the most prominent scholars in Finland in the field of comparative religion, said of him:
Later I met Him several times and had many interesting conversations. I"m left with a very positive and warm impression of Him.
Since March 2003 he was also a member of Shastric Advisory Council (SAC), formed by GBC.