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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy reason and science, the sharing of spiritual and miraculous experiences by Dilip Roy was not appreciated by many. But Anirvan, with his discrimation power, accepted Dilip Roy's evidence in the favour of miracles as authentic.
Roy has quoted a few of Anirvan's beautiful letters printed in Pravachan, Snehasis and Patralekha. They are the best examples of his style and the clarity of his mental analyses. Roy was always attracted by the felicity of Anirvan's Bengali diction along with a rare power of looking beyond the surface. He utilised this power freely to see into the heart of Reality.
Anirvan has written many books on the vision of the Vedas and the Gita in his inimitable vein. His Vedamimansa has been praised for his Vedic wisdom. His last book, Gitanuvachan consists of his message on the Gita with marvellous beauty. He attained his peak in prose in this book.
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This sketch is again hagiographical in kind as many saintly qualities of the subject are mirrored in it. Anirvan calls himself a baul, or a Sahaj mystic and follows his practice in his own spontaneous and peculiar manner. Anirvan's declaration that women hold equal status with men in the spiritual life is quite courageous and true to the Vedic age as well as human nature. Anirvan's ideas are original and from this sketch it seems that he always preferred to be true to his nature. When he saw that it was necessary for him to part company with his Guru, to follow the lead of his inner voice, very humbly he did so and changed his name to mark the transformation. He was sahaj in the real sense of the term. He guided his admirers and followers from his own personal practice and experiences. So there is no difference between his preachings and practice. In fact, he did not preach, he simply suggested. There was no room for hypocrisy in him. His personality was transparent. There was no difference between his inner and outward existence.
Anirvan is criticized frequently for quoting excessively from scriptures to support his argument. But Roy opines that he cannot be called a religious diehard. It is true that he had deep reverence for scriptures but, at the same time, he was aware of the fact that the laws and canons laid down by the religious leaders need to be changed according to the changing requirments of people. As a thinker one must admit, he exhibits Western cirtical spirit rare among Indians, when he very correctly observes:
"For years I have felt a pain, which I have expressed many a time, that there is a void in the medium zones of India's consciousness. Our ideal has been to take a heroic leap from here to high heaven, postulating that there is only one truth: that I am a human being and the Lord is the Divine in the Empyrean,
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