President Pranab Mukerjee today awarded President’s award to 30 eminent scholars including Prof Sudhakar Dixit, a renowned Indian Philosopher, presently based in Ranchi.
The ceremony was held here at Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Darbar Hall. All the awardees have been given a cash award of Rs five lakhs and a citation.
Dixit is an authority of Indian Philosophy and is specialized in Navya Nyay, the Indian logic. He is ‘Guru-Bhai’ of the Puri Shankaracharya, Swami Nishchalanand Saraswati ji Maharaj and has been the disciple of Swami Karpatri ji Maharaj, considered to be the incarnation of Adi Shankracharya.
Dixit is highly decorated Indian Philosopher and Shankracharya of Jyotishpeeth has conferred upon him the title of ‘Mahamahopadhyay’ and in 2014 the then Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren also bestowed upon him the the title of ‘Mahanayak’.
His contribution to the field of Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit language has been immense as he has taught over 500 scholars including several Shankaracharyas’ and ‘Peethadishwars’. A renowned Prof. of Poona University and Sampoornanand Sanskrit University, Prof Dixit has been giving sermons on Bhagwat Gita and Vedanta at Theosophical Society, Varanasi and Malviya Mission, Banaras Hindu University.
looking into his specialty and authority in his field and contribution in the field of higher education and to the society at large, the Jharkhand Government had recommended his name for the Padma Award in the year 2014. Prof Dixit is Presently residing in Ranchi and is engaged in the spread of the philosophy of Vedant, Gita and Bhagawat.c