Thread by @mmpandit

One of the more recent scholars of Chinnamasta Devi and the one who wrote treatises identifying Her as Renuka devi was none other than Kayvyakantha Ganapati Muni:
Another initiate of Shri Vidya born in the Vasistha Gotra in 1878, his birth itself was associated with a miracle.
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The miracle was thus:
His mother while staying overnight in a Surya temple had Darshan of a luminous Goddess carrying a golden pot.
The pot vanished into his mother’s garbha.
Vasistha Muni was born in 1878....
Literally known as Kavyakantha!!

He composed Umasahasram and in his lifetime apparently showed one of the countenances of Chinnamasta:
Actual Kapalabheda... (according to sources alive then).
He had his differences with many seers called the Vedas man made for instance (not Apourusheya as we believe... )

Before he was born, his father was in Kashi at the Dhundhi Ganapati performing Tapascharya and he had a divya vision where he saw a child emanate out of the deity and come towards him...
thus was born Vasistha Ganapati Muni... (his mother believed that he was Agni essence)

He was absolutely insistent that he was an amsa of Dhundhi Ganapati.. which is absolutely true:)

“vyapohya shirshakapale bhurityagnau prati tishati”
These words were said by the great sage Ramana Maharishi for the experience of Kapalabheda which was the inner realisation of Ganapati muni.

Who else but Ganesha can experience Ganesha?
Only Shiva can experience Shiva!!