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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy Roy appreciates Rabindranath's art of writing intimate personal letters. When he compares Rabindranath's letters to those of Sri Aurobindo, he finds that one cannot find any personal intimacy in Sri Aurobindo's letters. He notes that Sri Aurobindo
"...has written to a few of us, his disciples, a good many letters. (quoted in my Sri Aurobindo Came To Me) which can well be adjudged literary letters par excellence. For all that, Sri Aurobindo's genius could not take as spontaneously to letterwriting as the duck takes to water. It is here that Rabindranath scores."60
Rabindranath could express his emotions and reactions to life through plenty of letters written in a spontaneous and heartwarming charm. Dilip Roy considers, was
"...born with a mind of delicate sensitiveness which, like the seismograph, was receptive to the slightest touch or quiver of the world of senses and perceptions of almost every nuance and amplitude."61
Dilip Roy has published, as an example, such an intimate letter written by Tagore to him in 1925 in Six Illuminates of Modern India on p.76.
Dilip Roy liked Tagore's spirit to feel always young and be one with those who were younger than him in age. He quotes from one of Rabindranath's letters:
"How do you propose to stow me away, installed on a high pedestal? ... Am I not of the same age as you all ? Have I notinspite of my long white beard-sparred and roistered with you, never keeping you at a distance?....I cannot refrain from feeling a certain justifiable pride that I could, without turning a hair. make merry with you all as one of you. From which I conclude that I can never grow old... It is the representative Man, at once ancient and ever-new, who has inspired my poetry:therefore I must live in and through him right in the thick of you all who will sometimes sling mud at me and at others greet me with garlands and bouquets."
The author also enjoyed the characteristic refined humour of Rabindranath during his personal contact with him. As an instance, he publishes a humorous letter written to him by the poet in June 1931:
"Now-a-days I luxuriate regally in doing nothing a la lotuseater. There was a time when I behaved almost like an addict of
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