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233 He said:"No, no, I don't know why I feel like that? There is no reason why I should leave! I have full liberty here to live my own life.” But within a very short time he left after that.
Q. : Have you read any of the works he has written ? A: Where is the paper ? (The list of Dilip Kumar Roy's books.) I know only
Among the Great, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me and The Beggar Princess, perhaps I have read. Then, Miracles Do Still Happen has a big situation. Pilgrims of the Stars also I know. Yogi Sri Krishnaprem I have read. And,
of course, Upward Spiral is his poem. Q. : No, it is his novel. A: It is the novel ? Yes, I serialised that novel in 'Mother India', so I remember,
yes, yes. Q. : What do you think of him as a literary artist ? A: Well, he is an artist of some quality, surely. Possibly in Bengali field more
a master than in his English works. That The Subhash I Knew, I serialised too, I am not very sure now. And Eyes of Light I have read and that is a
poem, Eyes of Light. Q. : Did you remain in his contact even when he left the Ashram ?
Yes, yes. He was a little displeased with me, once, I remember. He wanted to send his poems to me for correction or revision or appreciation. Then, when I criticized him for omitting a chapter on (the) Mother from his book, I said in the future you may not write about her but when you have written about her in a book which belongs to a period when you were a disciple, you should not cut it out. It is like the Soviet way with history. If somebody falls off power, they simply cut out his period from that history. So, he did not like that, yea ! But we always had a friendly feeling for each other. Now, the last question about Dilip Kumar Roy. In his works he frequently writes that he was not satisfied with the disciples in the Ashram. When it was related to Sri Aurobindo, it was okay. But the disciples in the Ashram were rigid and they were asking him to do certain things which he did not like and he was complaining about the dissatisfaction he had towards other
inmates of the Ashram. What do you think about it? A: In his book, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me he has two chapters devoted to two
disciples, one was Chadwick, at that time he was in the Ashram and other
is myself, yea ! Q. : Yes, but in the book Yogi Sri Krishnaprem he writes about the dissatisfaction
he had towards others. Is it not intolerance, on his part, about other disciples ?
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