Please join us for an upcoming talk on Yoga and Consciousness Studies by Pr. Divyanandaprana who is visiting the US from India. All are welcome. The talk will last for one hour, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.

Date: July 27, 2025 (Sunday)
Time: 3 PM
Venue: Michigan Room – Michigan League (2nd Floor)
911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

For questions: vedanta.a2@gmail.com
Our website: https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/VSC

About the speaker: Pr. Divyanandaprana is a monastic member of Sri Sarada Math at New Delhi, India and currently is the editor of the English journal Samvit, published from New Delhi. She has been the Principal of Nivedita Vidya Mandir School from 2014-2019. She specializes in the areas of Yoga-Vedanta. In addition to studying the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature, she has extensively studied the Yoga-Vedanta texts based on these twin philosophies which include the Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Raja Yoga, Upanishads and the Prakarana Granthas (auxiliary scriptures of Vedanta like Vedantasara, Vivekachudamani etc.) along with their commentaries. Her additional areas of interest include the Brahma Sutras with Sankara's commentary, works of Ramana Maharishi and the Bhagavad Gita. A gold medalist, Pr. Divyanandaprana has the unique combination of knowledge in the conventional sciences, and traditional Yogic and Vedantic texts. Pr. Divyanandaprana has been lecturing all over India since 2010, including IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Delhi University, Vivekananda International Centre, Ramakrishna Mission Engineering and Medical Colleges in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata and sometimes in schools. She offers courses on Yoga-Vedanta every semester at IIT Delhi. The courses are available on YouTube at IIT’s official channel: NRCVEE IIT Delhi.

Internationally, she has traveled to hold classes or deliver lectures in South Africa at Cape Town, Durban, Ladysmith and Kwa Zulu Natal University among other places. Subsequently, she traveled to Ireland, Great Britain, UAE and recently to Canada for talks, lectures and scriptural discussions. She has spoken at Imperial College and Logan
Hall, London University in 2013. In May 2018, she was in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax and Nova Scotia where she gave a number of talks on Self-Knowledge, exploring the Subjective Sciences and finding the interface between Subjective-Objective Sciences. She has extensively traveled in the US and addressed Vedanta Societies of Iowa, Washington DC. Purdue University hosted her talk on Mind Management recently. In October 2022, she visited California and gave uplifting spiritual talks in Hollywood, Sacramento, San Diego. She is also the author of two books (available on Amazon): Science of Happiness and Self Discovery.