A compilation of articles on T. V. Kapali Sastry presented in a commermoration volume on his Birth centenary in 1986 - edited by M. P. Pandit.
One of the great contributions of Sri Kapali Sastry is to dispel the myth that the various Hindu scriptures like the Veda Samhitas, Upanishads, Yogas, Tantras, etc., are disparate and to demontrate that they complement one another. If each major scripture like the Tantra or Yoga can be compared to a pearl, then Rigveda is like the string on which all these pearls are strung into a magnificent necklace. The task of studying various scriptures to bring out their beauty and harmony has only just begun. Let us hope that more spiritual aspirants and scholars will take up the task of amplifying the truths which have been stated crisply and briefly by Sri Kapali Sasrty and Sri Aurobindo.
The translation of a few verses 40 of the last hymn in the Rig veda Samhita (X.191.2-4) is an appropriate finale to this essay. "Assemble together, speak with one voice, let your minds be of one accord...Let all the aspirants deliberate in a common way...united be the thought of all that all may live happily, ye may all happily reside."
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