"T.V. Kapali Sastri was a Vedic scholar who had his early training under the
renowned Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni. His scholarship and spiritual sadhana
endeared him to Ramana Maharshi. From 1916 onwards he was drawn to Sri
Aurobindo's yoga and settled down in the Sir Aurobindo Ashram. Interpreting the
philosophy of Ramana Maharshi and Sri Aurobindo became a lifelong vocation for
him. Teacher, translator, exegetist, essayist and poet, Kapali Sastri was a
philosopher attuned to Tantra.
As A.R. Ponnuswami lyer writes in his forward to Sastry's The Maharshi,
“Even after, under the imperative urge of an inner development, he [Sastry] took
the sadhana of Sri Aurobindo, he retained his reverential attachment to Sri
Maharshi. This he could do without sacrifice for he saw, appreciated, and
assimilated the realized truth of these two greatest teachers of the age have
given to the world. Small men, with their little egos, boast of their teachers,
as they boast of their material possessions, feel needless jealousies, and stir
up passion and discord in a realm where harmony should reign. But Sri Sastriar
could be loyal to Sri Aurobindo without being disloyal to Sri Maharshi or his
still earlier guru Sri Ganapati Sastrigal.” (Sastry,1979)
Sri Kapali Sastriar has come to be known more and more after his passing in
1953 than before. For he was an example of perfect self-effacemant
in the best traditions of the Aryan who represents the noblest and the highest
aspirations of humanity.
"Sastriar was a multiple personality. He excelled in whatever field he
worked. Among his several services to the national heritage, the one which
comes most prominently to the mind is his solid contribution in building a
strong bridge between the ancient past and the evolutionsry thought of the
present. Following the trial of his Masters, first of Vasishtha Ganapati
Muni and then of Sri Aurobindo, he unearthed many a truth that lies concealed
within the cryptic utterances of the Veda. his was not a scholastic
approach, though he was an impregnable scholar in his own right. He delved
into this hymnal on the strength of his inner experience, verified the verities
that are perceivable to the awakened eye, in his own yogic realisations and then
went on, in his sixtieth year, to write his classic commentary on the first
Ashtaka of the Rig Veda in virile Sanskrit." (M.P.
Pandit)
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