Sampadananda Mishra
Dr. Sampadananda Mishra is working now as the Director, Center for Human Sciences, Rishihood University and teaches at the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, Rishihood University, Sonipat. He also holds the position of Dean Culture in the same University. As a visiting faculty he teaches to the graduate and postgraduate students of the department of contemplative psychology at Sri Sri University, Odisha. At the Hindu University of America, USA Dr. Mishra at present is teaching a three semester course on Sanatana Dharma. Dr. Mishra has spoken at various conferences, seminars, and literary & religious festivals, both nationally and internationally on Sanskrit, Indian culture, Yoga and Education. In addition Dr. Mishra, as a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, is familiar with their writings and feels comfortable in delivering lecture on Philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. He has been to USA several times for giving lectures, conducting workshops and participating in conferences and seminars. He was one of the keynote speakers in the Waves conference that took place in Trinidad and Tobago in the year 2010. In the year (2014) Dr. Mishra was invited to the Monash university, Melbourne for giving a talk on character development and service to the humanity in a seminar on Swami Vivekananda.
Dr. Mishra worked as the Associate Editor of the Collected Works of Vasishtha Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni published in twelve volumes. Dr. Mishra has founded and launched the first ever 24hours Sanskrit Radio called Divyavani Sanskrit Radio and is single handedly managing the entire content since its inception in 2013. In the year 2014 Dr. Mishra founded Samskrita Balasahitya Parishad with the aim of creating, evaluating and propagating children’s literature in Sanskrit. Recently Dr. Mishra has launched a monthly E-magazine for children in Sanskrit called Saptavarna.
The Govt. of India has conferred the President’s award (Maharshi Badarayna Vyasa Samman 2011) on Dr. Mishra for his outstanding contribution to Sanskrit.
In the year 2014 the Ministry of Culture, Govt. Of India conferred the Senior Fellowship Award to Dr. Mishra for carrying out his research on the Vedic Art of Multiple Concentration.
In the year 2017 Junior Chamber International (JCI) India, (JCI Pondicherry Metro) conferred the Literary Excellence Award on Dr. Mishra for his contribution to Sanskrit language and literature.
Dr. Mishra was conferred the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Bala Puraskar for 2018 for his book Shanaih Shanaih – A book of Rhyming songs in Sanskrit for children.
Dr. Mishra was conferred the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition of Re-engineering India 2020 by the Re-think India Organisation.
Dr. Mishra worked as the Associate Editor of the Collected Works of Vasishtha Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni published in twelve volumes. Dr. Mishra has founded and launched the first ever 24hours Sanskrit Radio called Divyavani Sanskrit Radio and is single handedly managing the entire content since its inception in 2013. In the year 2014 Dr. Mishra founded Samskrita Balasahitya Parishad with the aim of creating, evaluating and propagating children’s literature in Sanskrit. Recently Dr. Mishra has launched a monthly E-magazine for children in Sanskrit called Saptavarna.
The Govt. of India has conferred the President’s award (Maharshi Badarayna Vyasa Samman 2011) on Dr. Mishra for his outstanding contribution to Sanskrit.
In the year 2014 the Ministry of Culture, Govt. Of India conferred the Senior Fellowship Award to Dr. Mishra for carrying out his research on the Vedic Art of Multiple Concentration.
In the year 2017 Junior Chamber International (JCI) India, (JCI Pondicherry Metro) conferred the Literary Excellence Award on Dr. Mishra for his contribution to Sanskrit language and literature.
Dr. Mishra was conferred the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Bala Puraskar for 2018 for his book Shanaih Shanaih – A book of Rhyming songs in Sanskrit for children.
Dr. Mishra was conferred the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition of Re-engineering India 2020 by the Re-think India Organisation.
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Sanskrit Language and Literature by Sampadananda Mishra
The entire subhashita literature in Sanskrit abounds in thousands of moral maxims, ethical teachings and wise sayings. Herein one finds a display of a profound knowledge of the human nature with all weaknesses and defects, sound moral advice with respect to various situations in which human beings were to wound up. The authors of these subhDIitas believed that the future of a man depends on his present action.
These epigrams, aphorisms, wise sayings, maxims, adages, however quaintly expressed, contain some moral truths or practical wisdom. They all are drawn from real life, and are expressed in cultivated language, well and beautifully turned and eloquently said. The main object of these sayings is to give expression to a practical wisdom and a moral thought through interesting examples and precepts. One often finds here a tinge of poetry, the poetical skill exhibited in the intricate play of words creating a slight wit, humor, satire etc. Also one gets a taste of many moods like laughter, scorn, compassion while going through these moral sayings.
Papers by Sampadananda Mishra
As Sri Aurobindo saw it, India must stand up to deliver Sanatana Dharma to the world and to humanity. He said that while “… other religions are preponderating religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatana Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old.” The rise of India is meant to help humanity to understand the value of Sanatana Dharma. Sri Aurobindo adds saying: “She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.”
But what is Sanatana Dharma, what are its fundamental truths, what does it teach, what does it practise, what are its common factors?
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is revered as one of the greatest Yogis, Philosophers, Spiritual Masters, Educationists, Nationalists, and as a literary figure par excellence. His educational philosophy gives equal importance to the three cardinal elements of education - vidyā (learning), vidyā-dātā (one who facilitates the learning or the teacher), and vidyā-grahitā (the recipient of the vidyā or the student). Sri Aurobindo’s emphasis on the integral development of the beings demands the integral development of both the teacher and the students. A teacher therefore, in Sri Aurobindo’s language, is not a task master but a yogi who seeks after the realization of the Truth while imparting the knowledge to the learners. All that he does, he keeps the Self-realization in the center. Learning therefore is a lifelong process by which one liberates oneself from all shortcomings, limitations and bondages: (sā vidyā yā vimuktaye). Sri Aurobindo’s educational philosophy integrates the philosophy of
life education and yoga together. It makes no difference between integral yoga and integral education. Transformation of human consciousness and taking care of the right growth of each of the different parts of the being is the very purpose of integral education. In this paper there is a humble attempt to explain the role of a teacher as a leader who initiates the process of transformation and leads on the path till the goal is achieved.
Key Words: Vidya, Shiksha, Integral Education, Integral Yoga, Rishi Tradition and Human Consciousness
The entire subhashita literature in Sanskrit abounds in thousands of moral maxims, ethical teachings and wise sayings. Herein one finds a display of a profound knowledge of the human nature with all weaknesses and defects, sound moral advice with respect to various situations in which human beings were to wound up. The authors of these subhDIitas believed that the future of a man depends on his present action.
These epigrams, aphorisms, wise sayings, maxims, adages, however quaintly expressed, contain some moral truths or practical wisdom. They all are drawn from real life, and are expressed in cultivated language, well and beautifully turned and eloquently said. The main object of these sayings is to give expression to a practical wisdom and a moral thought through interesting examples and precepts. One often finds here a tinge of poetry, the poetical skill exhibited in the intricate play of words creating a slight wit, humor, satire etc. Also one gets a taste of many moods like laughter, scorn, compassion while going through these moral sayings.
As Sri Aurobindo saw it, India must stand up to deliver Sanatana Dharma to the world and to humanity. He said that while “… other religions are preponderating religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatana Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived. This is the dharma that for the salvation of humanity was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula from of old.” The rise of India is meant to help humanity to understand the value of Sanatana Dharma. Sri Aurobindo adds saying: “She does not rise as other countries do, for self or when she is strong, to trample on the weak. She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world. India has always existed for humanity and not for herself and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great.”
But what is Sanatana Dharma, what are its fundamental truths, what does it teach, what does it practise, what are its common factors?
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) is revered as one of the greatest Yogis, Philosophers, Spiritual Masters, Educationists, Nationalists, and as a literary figure par excellence. His educational philosophy gives equal importance to the three cardinal elements of education - vidyā (learning), vidyā-dātā (one who facilitates the learning or the teacher), and vidyā-grahitā (the recipient of the vidyā or the student). Sri Aurobindo’s emphasis on the integral development of the beings demands the integral development of both the teacher and the students. A teacher therefore, in Sri Aurobindo’s language, is not a task master but a yogi who seeks after the realization of the Truth while imparting the knowledge to the learners. All that he does, he keeps the Self-realization in the center. Learning therefore is a lifelong process by which one liberates oneself from all shortcomings, limitations and bondages: (sā vidyā yā vimuktaye). Sri Aurobindo’s educational philosophy integrates the philosophy of
life education and yoga together. It makes no difference between integral yoga and integral education. Transformation of human consciousness and taking care of the right growth of each of the different parts of the being is the very purpose of integral education. In this paper there is a humble attempt to explain the role of a teacher as a leader who initiates the process of transformation and leads on the path till the goal is achieved.
Key Words: Vidya, Shiksha, Integral Education, Integral Yoga, Rishi Tradition and Human Consciousness