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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy
With tongue deny the heart-lit Gleam: When have fools worshipped Wisdom's ways? In such an age of darkness thou Art come to meet us with thy Light Inscrutable--come to endow
Us with a spark to pierce the Night":
This, too, is both a philosophical sketch and an expression of the author's devotion to Maharshiji.
In Suppliant' the poet expresses his aspiration to give up all that is dear to him to take a plunge in Krishna's 'vast radiant sea', and sings: "My lesser loves, illusion's brood,
Sweep, sweep away by thy Love's flood: Burn burn, my all beyond recall !
By thy Flame-flute's deep minstrelsy."6 A few of the lyrics are on the subject of divine grace. Consider, for example, 'Grace Worthy', 'Grace and Responsibility', 'Hymn to Grace', 'Grace the Mediator. Grace, according to Dilip Roy, is available to those whose hearts are full of humility and gratefulness towards the Divine. In 'Radharani, Goddess of Grace', he says: "And then it is not true, O friend,
That the vaunting elect attain to Grace: Her ambrosial flower will only blend
With humility and gratefulness."? In the last stanza, the poet addresses to Her directly:
"O Grace, I know thee not, nor seek
To grasp with Reason what's beyond The mind: I only know-to the weak
Thy heart of mercy must respond."8 This grace also works through the selfless executors of the Divine Will, through illuminated personalities of the world, who by the power of their love for Truth, their virtues and austerity, try to help the miserable humanity to rise from its down-trodden plight to the state of everlasting bliss. So, it is one of the most striking traits of Dilip Roy's nature that whenever he finds any truly great or pious person, very humbly, he remains in touch with him. He also seeks to write about him for the benefit of other people. Hence, though his devotion is the dominant feature of his poetic creations, his instinct to present biography is not at all absent from these short lyrical poems.
One might feel that what one finds elsewhere in his biographical, fictional and dramatic works, is further amplification of what is succinctly stated in these poems. For him, the emotion is everything. The object, the personality he adores,
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