Brief Biography of Swami Atmajnananandaji Maharaj

Swami Atmajnananandaji Maharaj joined the Ramakrishna Order under Swami Swahanandaji Maharaj at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in 1981 and spent his first sixteen years at the Ramakrishna Monastery in Trabuco Canyon. He took Brahmacharya vows from Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj at Belur Math in 1992 as well as Sannyasa vows in 1996. He was posted to the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington DC in 1997. He is currently the Resident Minister at the Vedanta Center of Greater Washington, DC.

He is a scholar in Indian philosophy and is a PhD in Indian philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He traveled extensively throughout India and Bangladesh; contributed various articles and translations to some of the books and magazines of the Ramakrishna order. One of his articles, “Vedanta in the west” was published in Living Wisdom. He envisions that with a smattering of devotion, all actions can be converted into acts of worship. All activities can be spiritualized and the worldly duties, begin to gradually melt away.