Sw Anand Haridas

(Prof. Harry Aveling, PhD)

(Hindi sannyas name: स्वामी आनंद हरिदास)

2015

a darshan 1978

Pune 1978

Haridas, born 1942 in Sydney, Australia, received Sannyas on Sep 6, 1977. At the time he was the Dean of the School of Humanities at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.

Co-founder with Sw Sambodh Roman and Ma Deva Rajni of the Osho Nirmol Meditation Centre, Melbourne, in 1986.
Co-translator with Mrs Sudha Joshi of Osho’s discourses on Daya Bai, The Last Morning Star, launched in Pune on Master’s Day, 2000, and various other related works.

"Krishna’s message is celebration and redemption through celebration. He is the most celebrating person ever, the most aesthetic god. His vision of reality is not that of truth but of beauty. He is not a philosopher but a lover, and he loved tremendously." (Osho, God's Got a Thing about You, Sep 8, 1978)

Haridas is a scholar, translator and teacher. He specialises in Indonesian and Malaysian literature, and Translation Studies. He received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy in Malay Studies from the National University of Singapore and Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) from the University of Technology, Sydney. Besides his academic studies, he has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay, from Vietnamese Francophone writing, and, as mentioned, co-translated from Hindi. He has also been awarded an Anugerah Pengembangan Sastra (Literature Development Award) for his translation work.

He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Southeast Asian Literature at Ohio University in 2002. He has also served as Visiting Professor of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia (2006).

In late 2010, he taught in the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is a Fellow of the Stockholm Collegium for World Literary History, Stockholm University, representing island Southeast Asia. He was President of the Australian Association for Literary Translation, 2005–2008, and is a Former Past President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society, a regional subgroup of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.

He currently holds an Adjunct Full Professorship in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Contact Details

address

17 Longbourne Ave

Notting Hill VIC 3168

Australia

phones

Phone: +61 (0)3 9561-3975

Mobile: +61 423-281-916

email

Harry.Avelingmonash.edu

website

Professor Harry Aveling at Monash

bibliography

1994 : The Laughing Swamis

1999 : Osho Rajneesh and His Disciples

2019 : The Magic Circle: Translation and India

2023 : The Laughing Swamis, revised ed

An extensive bibliography can be found in Google Books.

qualifications

PhD, Malay Literature, National University of Singapore

DCA, Literary Translation, University of Technology, Sydney

MEd, Multi-cultural Studies, University of New England, Armidale

STM, Spirituality, Wollaston Anglican Theological College, Perth

MAppLing, Translation Studies, University of Newcastle, Callaghan

see also

Harry Aveling in the Wikipedia

Harry on facebook

LoveOsho podcast E130 Haridas - interview on 16 March 2021