Swamini Pramananda (affectionately known as Ammaji) is the Spiritual Leader and Visionary behind the organization, Purna Vidya, based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. For the past 40 years, she has been sharing the vision of Oneness and Harmony with seekers around the world.

Swamini Pramananda is a Vedānta teacher as well as Samskrtam scholar. Her scholarship is grounded in these timeless teachings as well as her direct experience of the truth they reveal. As a result, she has become one of the clearest and most eloquent teachers of the Vedic vision of Oneness and Happiness. She taught residential courses in Vedānta and Samskrtam in her guru, Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s gurukulams for over a decade.

Ammaji shares her love with one and all, by tirelessly serving those in need, whether it be in the field of education, health, women empowerment or environment. Her work in Uttarkashi, Himalayas and Vadivelampalayam, Coimbatore where her two ashrams are located, is laudable and reflects her loving and giving nature!

As an outgrowth of her spiritual understanding, Ammaji designed a curriculum of study for the spiritual heritage of India called “Purna Vidya”. These 23-books series, have been translated into a number of languages and adopted by many educational institutions as well as communities and temples worldwide as the standard set of books for in-depth learning of Vedic Heritage.

Ammaji is an outspoken and recognized leader in the worldwide global peace movement. She has also presented the Hindu/Spiritual perspective of Oneness through Vedantic teachings in New York (USA), Birmingham/London (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Munich (Germany), Toronto (Canada), Abu Dhabi (U.A.E), Dubai (U.A.E), Singapore and Malaysia. She was a delegate speaker at the 2009 Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark , in the spiritual delegation led by GPIW as well as in the 2014 and 2018 World Hindu Congress held in Delhi and Chicago respectively. One of Ammaji’s unique contribution on Environment is her work in the Himalayas on the sacred culture of Goddess Ganga, through her teachings and education for Adivasis of Anaikatti Hills, Coimbatore.