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127 "Who are you? who are you?” He tried to avoid the question but it continued. So Krishnaprem answered: "I am Krishna's servant". The question instantly got changed: "Who is Krishna?" Krishnaprem formed many answers to that question. But the question was repeatedly asked to him by that voice. Ultimately, he evoked Radharani who revealed the answer to Krishnaprem.
On the next day, when he closed his eyes to meditate, he felt as if a deep peace descended and settled as a block of ice till every cell of his became numb with an exquisite bliss. Then, suddenly, he asked a question to Ramana Maharshi in silence:"And who are you, may I humbly seek ?” When Krishnaprem opened his eyes, he found that Maharshi who was sitting on the dias two seconds ago, was not there, as if he had melted into thin air. So, Krishnaprem closed his eyes again for some time and when he opened them again, he saw that Maharshi was reclining there, tranquil on his seat. Smilingly, he gave a meaningful glance to Krishnaprem.
Dilip Roy asked Krishnaprem if he could be called the one beyond "NamRup, ... The Nameless and Formless manifesting Himself through name and form". Krishnaprem deduced that Maharshi could be called:
"The one beyond all maya. The Star beyond the phantoms, the Last Reality beyond the ephemera, the Silence beyond the songs--you may exploit any simile you fancy. Personally, I look upon it as a sign of his Grace-his giving me the answer in
a way only he could have given."125
Dilip Roy wrote four poems on Maharshi's supraphysical powers. Three of them are published in Six Illuminates of Modern India and one of them is given in Pilgrims of the Stars. Dilip Roy's poems are dealt with in detail in Chapter 8 of this book.
On the whole, it can be said that Dilip Roy's sketch of Ramana Maharshi is one more attempt to draw attention of his readers towards great mystic sages and saints of his time who could remove ignorance and suffering of people and lead them towards illumination and bliss.
His sketch fully agrees with the portrait of the personality that we know from diverse other sources. The sketch does not look coloured with Dilip Roy's subjective views. His attitude of worship to Maharshi as also to all other great men in whom he finds a special manifestation of Divine splendour, however, is as clear here as it is elsewhere. 6. Saint Gurudayal Mullick
Dilip Roy has delineated the portrait of Saint Gurudayal Mullick.in his book, In Memoriam Saint Gurudayal, to reveal something of Mullickji's "true self."126 In another book. The Flute Calls Still a few of his intimate letters to Roy and Indira Devi are published.
12 of Mullickijis true
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