Swami Medhananda (Ayon Maharaj) is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and also studied at Oxford University and Humboldt University in Berlin.

Swami Medhananda's new book, Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism, defends a new interpretation of Vivekananda's philosophy, highlighting its originality, contemporary relevance, and cross-cultural significance. Vivekananda, the book argues, is best understood as a cosmopolitan Vedāntin who developed novel philosophical positions through creative dialectical engagement with both Indian and Western thinkers.

Swami Medhananda’s book, Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Cosmopolitanism, is available in:
United States: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0197624464
South Asian Countries: https://www.amazon.in/dp/0197663753

Swami Medhananda's book, Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Paths-Reality-Ramakrishna-Cross-Cultural/dp/0190868236/

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Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.