Introduction of

H.H. Swami Amitananda Saraswati is a disciple of Poojya Swami Atmananda, 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 Ancient Indian Culture Trust, at Mumbai, which manages the works of Vedanta Mission-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. Her father is a well known astrologer of Ahmedabad and both her parents are very proud to see their daughter in the present Ashram of her life. 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 vision of Vedanta. Her scriptural studies started even while she was a student. In 1987 she joined Sandeepany Himalaya Ashram at Sidhbari in Himachal Pradesh, which 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 by Swami Atmanandaji at the famous Chamumda temple in Himachal. 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.

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