Interfaith Encounters

COVID 19 and Vedanta Community

Episode Summary

In this episode Pravrajika Brahmaprana discusses how the COVID 19 epidemic is affecting the Vedanta community in Dallas Texas, which is part of the larger Hindu community.

Episode Notes

Pravrajika Brahmaprana joined the Sarada Convent at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, in 1973 and has been an ordained sannyasini since 1984. She has been a Vedanta representative on several interfaith councils in America, including the Hindu-Catholic Dialogue sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Snowmass InterSpiritual Dialogue, founded by Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O.; a guest lecturer at schools, colleges, and universities in America and India; and has participated in interfaith and scholastic seminars in America and abroad.

Brahmaprana has compiled and edited several books on Vedanta, including The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 9; Vivekacudamani of Sri Sankaracarya, translated by Swami Turiyananda; With the Swamis in America and India, and A Light to the West: the Life and Teachings of Swami Prabhavananda. She has also written numerous articles on the philosophy and practice of Vedanta for journals and anthologies in America and abroad. Brahmaprana is currently the resident minister of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of North Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.