Wikipedia Draft:Yogi Amit

Yogi Amit
Yogi Amit Sharma is renowned Yogiraj, Ayurvedacharya (PhD) homed in Sydney helping people realizing their well-being & spiritual goals for 22yrs.

Biography
Born on 2nd June, in the Rampur village of District Yamuna-Nagar in the state of Haryana, Yogi Amit started learning about yoga and spiritual schools of Indian Philosophy as part of his upbringing in the family tradition and through Guru Shishya parampara. From a very young age, his interest was to explore the inner spiritual world rather than the world of senses. In contrast to his contemporary boys, who were more interested in high speed bikes and other sensory pleasures, his bent of mind was towards exploring the various horizons of consciousness in the deeper states of meditation. He has certain strange experiences and dreams of completely dissolving his self-identity and submerging with the whole. Such experiences made him doubtful of the borrowed self-identity from the society and inspire his mind to search for the primordial identity of his Being. This search for true self-identity forms the core that shaped his personality unfolded in the later years. His near grandfather, who was an Ayurvedic Vaidya serving in the community, had a lot of influence upon him in his early childhood days. Her mother was a great devotee of Siddha Baba Gorakhnaths of Natha Siddha tradition, a tradition that synthesise Shivaism, Buddhism, Tantra and Hatha Yoga traditions beautifully. He grew up learning stories about the great masters of this tradition like Shri Matsyendranatha, Mina Natha, Caurangi Natha, Svatma Rama, Bhartrhari, and Gpoinchand. He learned Sanskrit language at the very young age of four and was fortunate to be surrounded by a vast library of Sanskrit literature in his own house. This has truly imprinted a remarkable influence in shaping his ideas and views on the nature of ultimate reality. He has an outstanding ability to sit for long hours and was very fond of reading that made him a good student and it’s not surprising that he topped his class non-stop from the year 1 to year 10.

Qualifications
After finishing the school, he was admitted to Kurukshetra University for a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering &Technology that he completed with a distinction in the year 1997. Later, he moved to the Panjab University, Chandigarh to explore further his childhood interests in investigating the indigenous sciences and ancient knowledge systems of the wonderland India where he met Professor Dharmanand Sharma and Professor Hirendera Prasad Sah. These two giants further inspired him to focus on bringing out the profound insights mentioned in the classical Ayurvedic texts to our contemporary society and to revive the Ayurvedic tradition in its true spirit. This lead to his intensive work, on investigating the theoretical foundations of the scientific traditions of the classical India developed in the form of Ayurveda and Yoga that he finally submitted in the form of a PhD thesis in the year 2008. In his original work, he proposed it is true that the discipline of yoga and Ayurveda are based upon the structure of Inductive logic, like the principles of falsifiability and repeatability at one level. But at a deeper level, the truths of these discipline are based upon the faculty of immediate perception or ‘asampragyata samadhi’. This novel idea opens up the door to the possibility of an insight based knowledge that can have far reaching implications to provide the disciplines of Ayurveda and yoga, the academic status they truly deserve!

Later he moved to Sydney and studied Bachelor’s degree in the Traditional Eastern Medicine from UTS Sydney to sharpen his clinical skills as well. Along with some committed members, he founded a non-profitableorganization Dhamma Yoga in 2011 to serve and heal the community in the nearby areas of the Sydney and to widespread the non-dualistic message of yoga, Ayurveda and other Indian spiritual traditions.

Awards
Fit India Champion, 2021

First prize for the Yoga contest organized by CGI, Sydney 2018

First prize for the Yoga contest organized by CGI, Sydney 2019

First prize for the Yoga competition organized by CGI, Sydney 2020

First Prize for the #My Life My Yoga video blogging contest, organized by the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, 2020

First prize for the Yoga competition organized by Hindu Council of Australia, Sydney, 2020

Special Award of Recognition by the Global Organization of People of India Origin, Sydney, 2018, 2018 & 2019

Certificate of Achievement presented by High Commission of India, Canberra, 2020

Invited to chair a session at the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable at The University of Alabama, Birmingham: 2005

Published

 * PhD thesis on ‘investigating the methodological, epistemological and ontological foundations of Ayurveda with special reference to Charkasamhita and Susrutasamhita: 2008


 * Published article in the edited book, ‘Foundations of Indian Social Life: Cultural, Religious & Aesthetic’, by Professor V T Sebastian and Professor Geeta Manaktala: 2009


 * Research article in the Journal published by the Banaras Hindu University, ‘Understanding death in philosophical/existential/yogic context’: 2010


 * Research paper in the Journal published by the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, “reflecting on the concept of Swastha as elucidated in the Charaksamhita”: 2007


 * Research paper in the Journal published by IIT Kharagpur, ‘Ayurvedic insights for the modern medicine’: 2006


 * A research paper read out and later sent for publication by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi on “Indian Philosophy, Science and Culture”: 2004

References Link

 * 1) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-december-2017/
 * 2) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-november-2017/
 * 3) https://youtu.be/FJnJf06sYL4
 * 4) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-october-2017/
 * 5) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-september-2017/
 * 6) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-august-2017/
 * 7) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-july-2017/
 * 8) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-june-2017/
 * 9) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-may-2017/
 * 10) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-april-2017/
 * 11) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-march-2017/
 * 12) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-february-2017/
 * 13) https://fijitimes.net.au/sydney-january-2017/