Pravrajika Vrajaprana

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Pravrajika Vrajaprana
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Born1952 (age 7273)
California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Pravrajika (or sannyasini), writer
Known forWriter on Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Christopher Isherwood.

Pravrajika Vrajaprana (born 1952) is a sannyasini or pravrajika (female swami) at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order. She resides at Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara, California [1] [2] [3] and a writer on Vedanta, the history and growth of the Vedanta Societies. [4] [5]

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She is also a well known speaker and scholar on Hinduism and she speaks frequently at colleges, universities and interfaith gatherings and is the Hindu chaplain at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. [6] Her works on Vedanta include, Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (1999), editor of Living Wisdom (1994). She is the co-author, with Swami Tyagananda, of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited (2010). [7]

Pravrajika Vrajaprana was born in California in 1952. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also worked briefly as Associate Professor of Literature. [8] She came in contact with Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Santa Barbara in 1967, while involved with anti-Vietnam war activism. [2] In 1977 she joined the Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara. [1] She took the first vows of brahmacharya in 1983 and had final vows of sannyasa in 1988. [8]

Vrajaprana was a co-speaker with the 14th Dalai Lama at the Interfaith Conference in San Francisco (2006). [9] She was a panelist in the discussion on Interpreting Ramakrishna at DANAM, held at the annual AAR meeting 2010. [10] [11]

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