Talk
Vedanta: The Science of Consciousness
A talk for the Vedanta Society of New York on consciousness as Vedanta understands it.
About the teacher
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana received monastic initiation in 2007 under Swami Ranganathanandaji Maharaj and has studied and taught classical texts including the Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras with Shankara's commentary, alongside Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature. She served as headmistress/principal of Nivedita Vidya Mandir (2014–2019), is editor of the Sri Sarada Math journal Samvit, and teaches yoga-vedanta courses at IIT Delhi.
She travels internationally to Vedanta centres and Sri Sarada Math convents for talks and retreats; a confirmed example is her September 2026 visit to the Vedanta Society of Western Washington in the Seattle area, including public talks, a devotional Arati/potluck, and a two-day retreat at the Society's Tapovan property.
“The mind has to be cultivated by the meditation process. (from her interview transcript on Buddha at the Gas Pump, batgap.com/pravrajika-divyanandaprana-mataji-transcript/)”Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
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Talk
The Science of Happiness According to Yoga-Vedanta
A talk at Google drawn from her book of nine lectures on happiness in the Yoga-Vedanta tradition.
