The Samadhi of Kapil Puri Ji

Upstairs, in the Hall of Darshan, in the ashram of the Old Baba, Arjun Puri, a dozen frightened individuals gathered for this most terrific of yoga demonstrations. Shri Mahant Kapil Puri invoked his lineage, reciting it backwards, starting with his guru, Shri Mahant Arjun Puri, back twenty five hundred years through Adi Shankaracharya, back another 2500 years past the advent of the present Age of Kali, and then back through countless millenniums, past the Dwapara Age, into the Treta Age, to the Lord of Yogis, the three headed Dattatreya, and past him, past Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, all the way back to the first guru, Maha Shunya, the Supreme Void. His eyes rolled back in his head as he sat in siddhasana, his legs crossed, the soles of his feet facing his body. He cleansed his nerve currents with Pranayama, alternating the breaths through his right and left nostrils. He