Swami Sarvapriyananda has been the minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York since 2017. He became a monk of the Ramakrishna Order in 1994 and received sannyasa (final monastic vows) in 2004. He served as an acharya (teacher) of the monastic probationers’ training center at Belur Math, India. He also served in various capacities in different educational institutes of the Ramakrishna Mission in India and as the assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. During 2019-2020, he was a Nagral Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is a well-known speaker on Vedanta and his talks are extremely popular online globally. He has been a speaker on various prestigious forums such as TEDx, SAND, and Google Talk. He has also been invited to speak at several universities across the world, including Harvard. The swami has engaged in dialogue with many eminent thinkers such as Deepak Chopra, Rupert Spira, Rick Archer, David Chalmers, Bernardo Karstrup, and Sam Harris.

He has played a prominent role in organizing and participating in various interfaith panels and seminars, including speaking at the World Parliament of Religions in Toronto and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Some of Swami Sarvapriyananda’s popular talks have been compiled into ebooks including, Who am I? What is Vedanta? and Dissolve into Infinity.