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Suhotra das (formerly known as Suhotra Swami, birth name Roger Terrance Crowley) was born in Massachussetts in 1950, left in April 8 2007 in Mayapur, India. He was one of the leading disciples of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and a guru within the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as 'the Hare Krishnas' or ISKCON).

Suhotra became a member of ISKCON in October or November of 1971 when he joined the ISKCON temple in Boston, USA. In 1972 he was initiated by Srila Prabhupada. Suhotra was a member of Radha Damodara Travelling Sankirtan Party and then in Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Library Party.

He was a Governing Body Commission member for 12 years (he was responsible for preaching in Norway, Finland, Benelux, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece) and a GBC Chairman.

Since March 2003 he was a member of Shastric Advisory Council (SAC).

He was an expert in Vedanta philosophy and he wrote books:
 * Substance and Shadow: The Vedic Method of Knowledge (1996),
 * Transcendental Personalism - Vedic Answers for the Human Situation (1997),
 * Dimensions of Good & Evil (1999).