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S.N. Sastri <sn.sastri

Sep 5, 2007 1:50 AM

[Advaita-l] Umasahasram

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Dear Sri Sriram,

 

May I add the following about Umasahasram.

 

Kavyakanta Vasishtha Ganapati Muni said about his work Umasahasram (as

quoted in 'Glory of Vasishtha Ganapati' by S.R. Leela, published by Sri

Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture, Bangalore):

 

" Completed was the great poem on time

 

Inspired by the force of the great teacher Ramana " .

 

He took up this work with the blessing of Bhagavan Ramana. He says that

before he started he had set the following conditions for himself.

 

" Doing tapas with a light rice diet in the day

 

And with only water at night,

 

Umasahasram will be completed in twenty days " .

 

" The verses flowed from my mouth with great ease. The right word emerged at

the right moment inlaid with the appropriate meaning. I felt blessed as the

vow of completing one thousand verses was fulfilled " .

 

All the above are in the form of Slokas in Sanskrit.

 

The work was started on Tuesday 25.11.1907 and completed on Sunday

14.12.1907, within twenty days. Later the text was revised seven times as an

act of tapas.

 

The following is an extract from the book mentioned above:

 

Umasahasram is divided into forty stabakas or cantos, each having

twentyfive verses. Each stabaka is in a different metre. Some of the

profound topics analysed in the poem are: the mode of creation, the supreme

form of the great Goddess, the forms of the Vedic and Tantric deities, the

means of getting their favour, yogic experiences got by the grace of the

Goddess, the essential principles of the ten Great Disciplines or Tantric

Vidyas, methods of worshipping them, practice of the Vidyas or Disciplines

enunciated in the upanishads, the secrets behind the famous temple deities

like Madhurai Minakshi and many other topics. All these secrets would have

remained hidden from us but for the luminous Sanskrit Commentary, Prabha, on

this work by his illustrious student Sri T.V. Kapali Sastry. Each verse here

has the potency of of a mantra.

 

Regards,

 

S.N.Sastri

 

 

 

 

This is regarding a query by a list member regarding Uma Sahasram. This work

was the Magnum Opus of Sri Kavyakanta Vashishta Ganapthi Muni, disciple of

Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. Sri Nayana(a name kept by Sri Ramanar) is the

incarnation of Dundi Ganapathi of Varanasi.He was the person responsible for

naming Brahmana Swami who was engaged in natural Tapas at Thiruvannamalai,

Tamilnadu (Arunachala) as Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, after ascertaining his

original name was Venkataramanan. Sri Kavyakanta strong conviction was that

Sri Ramana was the incarnation of Sri Subrahmanya(Thiru Muruga in Tamil).

Sriram

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