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WHAT'S NEW...
15th May 2009: It is with great joy and a sense of relief that we can announce
the successful completion of Guru Maharaja's Samadhi at Mayapur
Gurukula! It was completed with a ceremony on the most auspicious
day of Sri Nrsimha Caturdasi. MORE
Also we would like to announce the publishing of Czech edition of
Substance & Shadow. Many thanks to all devotees involved in it's
production! If you would like to help with publication of
Maharaja's books (either in English or Czech language), you may send
us donation HERE.
- Another good news is that we have again in stock Suhotra Maharaja's booklets Apasampradayas and Sad Darsan. You may get them HERE.
- 3rd April 2009: We would like to inform you that Suhotra Maharaja's Tirobhava Mahotsava (disappearance day) is 14th April this year. Good news is that there is positive progress regarding the completing of Maharaja's Samadhi, which will be situated at Mayapur gurukula (Bhaktivedanta Academy). There were few months of delay, but now it got new push thanks to Tattvavada Prabhu. We are going to inform you as soon as we have more news. Hopefuly these news will be that the Samadhi is finished, which could be within few weeks. Please pray to Lord Krishna for quick completion!
- Our website is now expanding. There is new section Stay High Forever & Bhajans, containing selection of Suhotra Maharaja's best bhajans and kirtans. In the section DOWNLOAD there are going to be now permanently available some audio and video files. Due to the time pressure we are unable to upload fresh lectures from time to time. Finally, after few years, we have managed to restore In2-MeC journal to its full version. Now it contains all articles and photos which were published between 2003-2005. And there is much more to come on our website, stay tuned...
1st
January 2009: Good news for the beginning of New Year - there is new edition
of Dimensions of Good and Evil by Suhotra Swami available! Order
in our e-SHOP. Also available are
all the articles written by Maharaja and published in the Back to Godhead
magazine. See the LIBRARY.
- There are 16 new texts (scanned files) written by Suhotra Maharaja
from the German magazine "Wie Es Ist", which was published in the
80's, in the new sub-section "Die
deutsche Bibliothek" . Thanks goes to Manidhara prabhu for supplying
the materials and to Kasya prabhu for scanning it. Now we are looking for
someone speaking German language who would help us with translation into English.
Volunteers, please contact us here. Thank
you!
- There are also new books and texts novailable in the LIBRARY. Down on the page are scanned all the nine Vyasa Puja books (years 1990-1998) containing homages to Suhotra Maharaja from his disciples. Also now available are: file containing all available Vyasa Puja homages of Suhotra Maharaja to Srila Prabhupada (1986-2004), Study guide for Teachings of Lord Caitanya and papers On Social Development.
18th
July: "This highly elusive thing, pure devotional service, I
want it. I want it so badly it creates and ache in me. It is becoming almost
the only thing I can talk about and because of this I can see that people
are thinking I have made advancement in Krishna consciousness. I wish I had."
wrote Suhotra Maharaja already in 1993. "But then the question comes,"What
about the fact that you read books by non devotees? What are you gaining from
them? Why waste your precious time reading what they have to say, if they
have nothing important to say?" "
The answer to this challenging question and a glimpse into Maharaja's reference library you will find in the new section BOOKWORM.
13th May - now with the help of the GOOGLE TRANSLATE (available
at http://www.google.com/language_tools)
you may translate our whole site into 23 different languages. Although the
translation is sometimes crude, still it is quite helpful for those who do
not understand English.
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22th April 2008: There are nice photos of Suhotra Maharaja's Samadhi being ceremoniously put together on the Gaura Purnima day and sealing his ashes inside. Please go to Picasaweb Drdha's descriptions are HERE.
Sealing Maharaja's ashes into new Samadhi
12th December 2007: one of the four new books recently
released by HH Danavir Maharaja is called "Bhu-Gola Tattva -
Science of the Round Earth". It is dedicated to Srila Prabhupada
and "his beloved disciple HG Suhotra dasa Tapovanacari". This book
contains Suhotra Maharaja's 138 pages long investigation on traditional Gaudiya
Cosmotheism. (It is almost the size of Vedanta Psychology book.) You may order
the book here.
- 11th August 2007: With mixed feelings we have learnt about
the glorious departure of HG Caitanyananda Prabhu from this
world. Joyful from knowing he had such a wonderful leaving, but sad we have
lost his association. Caitanyananda Prabhu was a disciple of HH Bhaktivikasa
Swami and for years he was an admirer of Suhotra Maharaja. He helped him in
various ways with publication of his books and his internet journal In2-MeC.
MORE...
1st June 2007 - We have decided to use on our website the form of address as "Suhotra Maharaja". Why? The title Maharaja is not used only for sannyasis, but for sadhus (saintly persons) in general, no matter which asram they are in. In some parts of India you can also find that the title "Maharaja" is used as a polite addressing someone as "Sir".
As was already previously explained, the title "Suhotra Prabhu" is not technically exact, as his proper name was Suhotra dasa Tapovanacari. This name he received in an initiation with fire yajna from his siksa guru HH Bhaktividya Purna Maharaja. It is a renunciate title, not sannyasa but "vairagi" or learned performer of austerities. He was not "Suhotra Prabhu " in the sense of being in brahmacari asrama, because brahmacari is in Vedic culture just a boy not older than 25 years old. He was TAPOvanacari, not just vanacari (vanaprastha), because he was never married. So our site is named Suhotraprabhu.com just for the practicality's sake, as it would be difficult to fit in his full name there. .
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Last lecture of Suhotra Maharaja
Last photo - 3rd April 2007
listen online or download: part 1, part 2
(For successful download right-click on link and choose Save Target As...)
Suhotra Maharaja says his last good bye to us in his last lecture given at Tuesday, April 3rd: "I have a lot of work to do on the Srimad Bhagavatam, the only way I am able to really do this effectively and get a lot done is when I kind of just go on the marathon, so …This will be…the class goes on…untill the end of this month, April…and this will be the last time you see me. Classes after this will all be given by BVPM, because I will be writing. It has to be, because this is the best month for it, this is April, it's not too…yet too hot, and there is only one month left…So enjoy while you can, I am sorry, but time nears like a big python, swallows frogs, hours like frogs (laughing), so many destructions…OK."
- Part of Letter by Suhotra Dasa
from March 2005
"I am thankful that before the time of death, Lord Krsna is giving me this chance to understand the true position."
- Remembering Suhotra Maharaja
AC Bhaktivaibhava Swami: "I am convinced that the Lord granted him the eternal shelter of Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. I am joining all of you in sharing my memories of him, and in showing my deep gratitude and humble respect to a person, who has sacrificed his life and his final breath in the service of our eternal lord and master, Srila Prabhupada."
- Departure of Suhotra Maharaja
With heart full of pain I have to inform you about recent passing away of HG Suhotra das Tapovanacari from this world. His body was found on Monday 9th April in his room in Mayapur Gurukula.
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