H H Smita Krishna Swami was
born in Sweden in 1952. He joined ISKCON in 1970 in Hamburg,
Germany and recieved spiritual initiation from His Divine Grace AC
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1971. In 1973 he moved back to
the Sweden with the first group of devotees to establish preaching
of Krsna consciousness in Sweden. He spent few years as one of
Srila Prabhupada´s book distributors. And later switched to the
Pujari service, when he took care for seva of Sri Sri Gandharvika
Giridharí at Korsnas Gard in Sweden. He accepted the renounced
order of life, vaishnava sanyas, in 1986 in Sridham Mayapur and
since 1988 is the initiating spiritual master in ISKCON. Maharaj is
known among devotees for his kind and meek, simple-hearted nature
and enlightening lectures based on his many many realizations. He
is preaching mostly around Europe (Skandinavia, Baltic states,
Balkan states and middle Europe). The field of his interest is
mostly to encourage farm comunities and self-sufficiency including
cow protection in ISCKON. Since 1982 when Sweden farm project
(Almviks Gard) was started he made his seat there.
