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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy His English works are not less important. Many of them are translated from Bengali into English by the author himself. They may be described as good examples of transcreations.
Among his English works, Upward Spiral and Miracles Do Still Happen are his mystic novels. Wings and Bonds is again his novel which deals with the soul's evolution through the vicissitudes of its eternal God-quest opposed by the earth-pull of lesser loves.
Among the Great, Sir Illuminates of Modern India, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, In Memoriam Saint Gurudayal, Yogi Sri Krishnaprem, Netaji the Man:Reminiscences, The Subhash I Knew are the result of his contact with great persons not only of India but also of the world. Sri Chaitanya, Mira and Mira in Brindaban are his poetic plays in blank verse. Eyes of Light and Hark! His Flute his short poems are collected.
The Flute Calls Still, The Rounding Off, and Kumbha:India's Ageless Festival are replete with spiritual visions and experiences of Dilip Kumar Roy and Indira Devi.
Pilgrims of the Stars is an autobiography, written by Dilip Roy and Indira Devi.
Dilip Roy was also a translator of other writers' works. Sarat Chandra Chatterji's Mothers and Sons and Dwijendralal Roy's Fall of Mevar are his translations from Bengali into English. He published his translation of Sanskrit couplets of the Gita into English blank verse in The Bhagavat Gita:A Revelation. The Immortals of the Bhagavat is the translation of a selection of tales from the Bhagavat rendered in free English verse by Roy.
Many of his works like Yogi Sri Krishanprem, Miracles Do Still Happen and Among the Great are translated into foreign languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese, German etc. and also into a number of regional languages of India like Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu and so on.
Dilip Roy's works published in Hindi are chiefly on music and Mira Songs. His Geetashri, Sangitiki and Suranjali are enriched with musical notations. His Bhavanjali, Deepanjali, Shrutanjali, Premanjali, Sudhanjali, Vibhanjali and Ushanjali contain songs of Mira dictated to him by Indira Devi, soon after her experiences of bhava samadhi.
His books, as they came out, were welcomed all over the world by the pilgrims of eternity. Some of his books saw four editions in two years and were ranked as the best-sellers in the book-market. This is the proof of his popularity. H.V.Kamath in his Foreword to Dilip Roy's Six Illuminates of Modern India writes :
"A book by Shri Dilip Kumar Roy needs no Foreword. His is a name to conjure with in the world of letters, of poetry and mystical
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