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Pravrajika Vrajaprana

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 and a writer on Vedanta, the history and growth of the Vedanta Societies.

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. 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).

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. She came in contact with Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Santa Barbara in 1967, while involved with anti-Vietnam war activism. In 1977 she joined the Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara. She took the first vows of ''brahmacharya'' in 1983 and had final vows of ''sannyasa'' in 1988.

Vrajaprana was a co-speaker with the 14th Dalai Lama at the Interfaith Conference in San Francisco (2006). She was a panelist in the discussion on ''Interpreting Ramakrishna'' at DANAM, held at the annual AAR meeting 2010. Provided by Wikipedia