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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy ...saw a Being, whose stature stretched from the sod to the sky. He looked like a veritable pillar of light, and from Him radiated forth a perfume, the strength and the sweetness of which were surcharged with the electricity of ecstasy. The vision lasted just for the twinkling of an eye."
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After that vision, he burst forth into a song which, for the first time, was complete with text and time of his heart and lips. Forgetting the world around him, he sang at that time in tears of blissful pain for many hours. When he stopped singing at midnight, the whole of his body was full of joy. The impact of this experience lasted for a long time. He narrates:
"The benediction of the Presence I had seen, however, sustained me through a number of bereavements, the loss by death of at very dear friend, the dwindling of the family's limited financial resources and other similar deprivations which followed in quick succession. I had all along a very strong feeling that the pool of my personality had opened itself out to an inlet and an influx from the Ocean of the Oversoul."133
Dilip Roy has quoted many songs from Gurudayalji's Hound of the Heart and Divine Dwellers in the Desert in which such mystical experiences are woven. For him, as he himself says: "The song is merely the text, nor is the song everything. It is the singing which is all, that is why the stars sing every night."134 Roy has also taken into account a few miraculous incidents which Gurudayaiji witnessed in own life.
This apart. Saint Gurudayal gave much importance to joy and laughter in life. For him,
"...laughter is the best of tonics, because it lightens the burden of the so-called woebegone existence of man, on the one hand, and lights up the sorrow-darkened spirit, on the other. Laughter is the sunlight of the spirit."135
(B) Evaluation:
Here, Dilip Roy has given the biographical sketch of a saintly person in a 'hagiographical', manner.
The author speaks of three of mystical experiences of Saint Gurudayal's life. They can be called his glimpses of the Higher Reality, which in their turn, brought joy, peace, happiness and a kind of intoxication for him. In his later life, it is possible that Gurudayaiji might have other experiences too. But he had left no record of them because it is generally believed that such experiences are to be kept secret.
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