|
Poojya Swamini Amitananda Saraswati is a disciple of Poojya
Guruji Sri Swami Atmanandaji and is at present the Acharya of
Vedanta Ashram at Indore.
She is the founder of the Gujarat unit of
Vedanta Mission, and is a permanent Trustee of Vedanta Parmarthic Sewa
Trust at Indore
and the Indian Cultural Foundation, at Mumbai, which manages the
works of Vedanta Ashram at Indore
and Vedanta Mission-Mumbai respectively.
She is
a well known for her clear & simple style to reveal the tenets of
Vedanta, relating the day to day activities as per the vision propounded in
Gita. Poojya Swaminiji comes from a pious Brahmin family of Gujarat. She is a graduate in Microbiology, and did
her Post-graduate Diploma in Pathology before taking up a permanent job
with the Govt of Gujarat. She resigned from the job in 1987 before she
dedicated her life for the study and propagation of the knowledge of
Vedanta. Her scriptural studies started even while she was a student. In
1987 she joined the Sandeepany Himalaya Ashram at Sidhbari in Himachal
Pradesh - is a well known Gurukula run by Chinmaya Mission. It was here
that she started her detailed studies at the feet of her Guru Swami
Atmanandaji. After completing her studies there she was given the Naishthik
Brahmacharya Deeksha in 1989. In 1995 she was given the final initiation,
the Sanyas Deeksha by Poojya Swami Atmanandaji on the banks of River
Narmada at a place near Omkareshwar and thereafter came to be known as Swamini
Amitananda Saraswati.
Poojya
Swaminiji, as she is generally called, is highly inspired by the works
& personality of Sri Adi Sankaracharya, and it was at her initiative
that a beautiful statue of Bhagwan Sankaracharya was established at the
Vedanta Ashram at Indore.
Her Gyana Yagnas and other programs are constantly organized all over Gujarat, Indore & Mumbai. She gives her lectures
both in Hindi and Gujarati language.
|
