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However, in his case, with the strength of his own tapasyā and
the Grace of his most compassionate Master, he lived for fourteen
long years (although he had to observe certain physical restric-
tions, such as that he could not shave his head nor could put his
bare feet on the ground) after this experience. This event speaks
volumes on the extraordinary nature of his tapasya and the fact
that he was perhaps the greatest Master of tantra born on this
earth. In fact, the final revision of his magnum opus Umā-
sahasram after this experience, remains, testimony not only to his
supreme mastery over the tantras but also his ability to find the
reconciliation and concordance between the Vedic, Upanishadic
and the Tantric schools of thoughts. The kapalabheda experi-
ence also reconfirms the conviction that he was the direct amsa
(portion) of the Vedic deity agni (who resides as the power of
kundalinī in the mulādhāra of human beings).
The poet seer Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni met
Sri Aurobindo on 15th August 1928. He stayed at the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram for about a fortnight. During this stay at the Ashram, the
Muni meditated with The Mother a few times. After one such
meditation, The Mother expressed that the Muni was a real yogi
who could plunge into great depths the moment he started medi-
tation and that she had not so far found any person abiding in Her
spiritual consciousness as Ganapati Muni did. Further, at the in-
stance of Sri Kapali and Sri S. Doriswamy Iyer, the Muni trans-
lated some portions of Sri Aurobindo's The Mother
(mātrtattvaprakāśikā) in chaste Sanskrit verses with some notes.
On reading the Muni's translation, Sri Aurobindo seems to have
very generously observed, "It far excels the original." It is also
worth mentioning that the Muni presented to Sri Aurobindo the
last and final version of his Umasaharam (written in his own hand-
writing after his experience of kapālabeheda) with specific notes
on each chapter before his meeting in 1928.
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the Grace of his most compassionate Master, he lived for fourteen
long years (although he had to observe certain physical restric-
tions, such as that he could not shave his head nor could put his
bare feet on the ground) after this experience. This event speaks
volumes on the extraordinary nature of his tapasya and the fact
that he was perhaps the greatest Master of tantra born on this
earth. In fact, the final revision of his magnum opus Umā-
sahasram after this experience, remains, testimony not only to his
supreme mastery over the tantras but also his ability to find the
reconciliation and concordance between the Vedic, Upanishadic
and the Tantric schools of thoughts. The kapalabheda experi-
ence also reconfirms the conviction that he was the direct amsa
(portion) of the Vedic deity agni (who resides as the power of
kundalinī in the mulādhāra of human beings).
The poet seer Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni met
Sri Aurobindo on 15th August 1928. He stayed at the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram for about a fortnight. During this stay at the Ashram, the
Muni meditated with The Mother a few times. After one such
meditation, The Mother expressed that the Muni was a real yogi
who could plunge into great depths the moment he started medi-
tation and that she had not so far found any person abiding in Her
spiritual consciousness as Ganapati Muni did. Further, at the in-
stance of Sri Kapali and Sri S. Doriswamy Iyer, the Muni trans-
lated some portions of Sri Aurobindo's The Mother
(mātrtattvaprakāśikā) in chaste Sanskrit verses with some notes.
On reading the Muni's translation, Sri Aurobindo seems to have
very generously observed, "It far excels the original." It is also
worth mentioning that the Muni presented to Sri Aurobindo the
last and final version of his Umasaharam (written in his own hand-
writing after his experience of kapālabeheda) with specific notes
on each chapter before his meeting in 1928.
xvi