Swami Satyamayananda

Swami Satyamayananda

Swami Satyamayananda Swami Satyamayananda joined the Vedanta Society of Southern California as Assistant Minister in December of 2018. He became a member of the Ramakrishna Order at Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata in 1988. An initiated disciple of Swami Bhuteshananda (the twelfth president of the Order), he served in various capacities at Advaita Ashrama. In 2008, he […]

Swami Tattwamayananda

Swami Tattwamayananda

Swami Tattwamayananda, currently the Minister- in -charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco, served in various centers of the Ramakrishna Order in India as editor, publisher,and teacher of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy before coming to the United States in January, 2012. He had traditional training in Hindu scriptures, Sanskrit and Vedic literature from his early days.  He […]

Pravrajika Shuddhatmaprana

Pravrajika Shuddhatmaprana

Pravrajika-Shuddhatmaprana Pravrajika Shuddhatmaprana is an ordained nun of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, and is currently posted at the Vivekananda Retreat in Ridgely, New York. For many years Shuddhatmaprana has been active in the publication work of the Ramakrishna Order, editing numerous books and articles. She has also written many articles and is the […]

Swami Ishatmananda

Swami Ishatmananda

Swami Ishatmananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, got associated with the holy order at the Ramakrishna Mission, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya. He was attached with Advaita Ashrama (Kolkata) an English publication center of the Ramakrishna order for twelve years. He was initiated by Srimat Swami Vireswaranandaji Maharaj and bestowed with Sanyasa in 1986 by Srimat Swami […]

Swami Tyagananda

Swami Tyagananda

Swami Tyagananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order and presently the head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. Currently he is also the Hindu chaplain at MIT and Harvard. He became a monk in 1976, soon after graduating from the University of Bombay, India.  He was assigned to the Vedanta Society in […]

Swami Chidbrahmananda

Swami Chidbrahmananda

Swami Chibrahmananda joined the Ramakrishna Order of monks in 1999 and served Swami Prabuddhananda in San Francisco for 15 years. Swami Chidbrahamananda is currently working with Swami Atmajnanananda at the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington DC following a one year posting at the Vedanta Society of Southern California with Swami Sarvadevananda.  

Swami Atmajnanananda

Swami Atmajnanananda

Swami Atmajnanananda is a Swami (monk) of the Ramakrishna Order, the resident minister at the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington, DC . He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1981 at the Vedanta Society of Southern California; took first vows of brahmacharya in India in 1992 and sanyasa in India in 1996; transferred to the Vedanta […]

Swami Nishpapananda

Swami Nishpapananda

Swami Nishpapananda (Nish-pap-ananda) is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and an assistant minister at the Vedanta Society of St Louis, where he has resided since 1974. He became interested in Vedanta through college course work, joined the Order in 1981 and received final monastic vows in India in 1995. A graduate of […]

Pravrajika Krishnaprana

Pravrajika Krishnaprana

    Met Swami Prabhavananda in Santa Barbara in 1968, where she was vacationing. Had just finished a teaching job in Hawaii and was looking for a sunnier climate than Seattle, where she was raised. Shen then returned to the Northwest and met Swami Vividishananda and Swami Ranganathananda. Moved to Santa Barbara in 1969, lived […]