Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda (pre-monastic name Biswarup Mitra) is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order, born into a Bengali kulin kayastha family in Kolkata and raised in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He joined the Ramakrishna Order at age 23 in 1994 and received his monastic vows as sanyasa diksha from Swami Ranganathananda in 2004.

Since January 2017, Sarvapriyananda has served as Minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York. His career within the Ramakrishna Order has been extensive, including roles as an acharya at the Monastic Probationer Training Center at Belur Math, vice principal of Deoghar Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, and principal of Ramakrishna Mission Shikshanamandira, a teacher-training college at Belur Math. He previously served as assistant minister at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in 2015 and was a Nagral Fellow at Harvard Divinity School during 2019–20.

A prolific writer and speaker specializing in Advaita Vedanta, Sarvapriyananda has authored works including Mahavakya: The Essence of Vedanta, Fullness & Emptiness: Vedanta and Buddhism, and From Illusion to Infinity: Discovering the Self. He has lectured at TEDx, Google, Harvard University, and the World Parliament of Religions. Fortune India has recognized him as "one of the best-known lecturers of Vedanta in the world today."