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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy M. P. Pandit, one of the scholars of Indian scriptures and a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, also observed that Bhagavan Ramana's personality was unique,
"And yet he was supremely impersonal: an Impersonal Person. He functioned apparently in the frame of Time and Space. And yet his was a Consciousness that ever breathed of the Eternal;
his was a gaze that scanned the Infinite."119
M. P. Pandit described Ramana Maharshi as "Mighty Impersonality" and added:
"Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi was no evolutionary being, like any of us, who came to birth under the compulsion of some past karma. He did not belong to that line of manifestation. He was a direct Emanation from the Divine Being in its aspect of conquering Knowledge, Skanda Sanatkumara, as affirmed by the great Tapaswin and Seer, Vasishtha Ganapati Muni. He was a direct Descent of the Divine Consciousness with a special mission: to give the direct route to the Self, Atman, to a humanity that stood bewildered in the profusion of pathways and
philosophies staring before it"120
Dilip Roy, in the beginning of his essay, 'Sri Ramana Maharshi', given in Six Illuminates of Modern India does refer to the eloquent dialogue between Narad and Sanatkumara but any how, unlike M. P. Pandit, he does not inform his readers that Ramana Maharshi was an emanation of Sanatkumara.
Marking the inexplicable power of Ramana Maharshi, the first of his Western devotees, F.H. Humphrys wrote in International Psychic Gazette: "It is strange what a change it makes in one to have been in his presence!"|21
Like others, Dilip Roy, too, noticed a subtle change occuring in him by his physical closeness to Ramana Maharshi. He wondered:
"...why he moved me to my depths with eyes where no soft light of emotion presided and yet it bathed me when I met his gaze with a peace that I find as unaccountable as it was delectable."122
Dilip Roy asked in amazement: "Did he not blossom like a flower stemming from earth, yet alien to all that was earthly?"123
The author has added the account of Krishnaprem's mystical impressions of his visit to Maharshi Ramana in Sir Illuminates of Modern India. 124 A gist of it is given herewith. Krishnaprem told Roy that when he sat in front of Maharshi, he heard a voice, questioning him over and over again:
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