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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy A. It showed only that he could very easily get upset, yes. He was over sensitive. Things like that. When I once spoke to him: "Dilip, our friendship. has gone on for so many years, ten, twelve years", then he said: "It is due entirely to you. I am not a very...(inaudible)... friendly person, all the time tolerant of things." He said about himself, yes.
(recorded on Novermber 1,1995.)
(2) Conversation with Nirodbaran
(Nirodbaran, born on 17th November, 1903, is still alive. After qualifying himself as a doctor from England, Nirodbaran joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry in the early thirties. Like other disciples of the Ashram, he, too, took to poetry as a means of sadhana. Under the guidance of Sri Aurobindo. there was a constant progress in his art of writing poetry. Some of his wellknown publications are: Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Vols I, II, III, Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo, Sweetness and Light, Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, Vols I & II, Sun-Blossoms and Fifty Poems with Corrections and Comments by Sri Aurobindo.)
Q.
What was your first impression of Dilip Kumar Roy?
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A. We find him very lucky, generous and very helpful and very handsome. Q. Would you like to narrate any of the peculiarities or oddities of him?
A. Oddity ?
Q.
If you think he had any....
I don't think... He himself has said he has very love of praise. If he gets. praise from somebody, he is very happy. If you don't like his work or so, he is not very pleased. That is how, great men. I think, have their habit. He is a great man indeed, so that is oddity, he himself has said. He is ...(inaudible)... by a little flattery, but if you don't like his works and you. criticize him, he avoids you. He was not the yogi. So, that quality he himself has said even in his books. He was a lover of beauty, he was an artist and a great, great man,
Q. What do you think of him as a musician?
A.
He was a great musician that I have heard. The Mother said he had the power of invocation. (The) Mother has heard his music but he does not like non-spiritual music. (The) Mother has said she saw that Krishna used to come during his musical...(inaudible).... He, of course, did not know about it, but (the) Mother has said. (The) Mother has explicitly seen it and (the) Mother has told Dilip also. And I think through music he could have done. a lot of work for (the) Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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