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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy motto that greatness can be seen in small things. He cannot be taken for granted. I have seen him in this Ashram getting up at midnight to change the word of his composition and even to change the punctuation mark in his work.
Q. : What is the message you would like to leave for the readers admirers and
even critics of Dilip Kumar Roy's works? Dadaji was always kind even to his critics. There was one person in Calcutta who was thinking of Dadaji as his great rival in the field of literature. When Dadaji went to stay at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, he criticized him bitterly in a newspaper. Later on, he came to Dadaji requesting him to write a letter of recommendation to the Director of the Radio so that he can have a job there. Dadaji wrote a letter of recommendation to the Director telling him that the person was the right man for the job. I asked Dadaji why he wrote such a letter for his critic. Dadaji said that he had all the right to dislike him but he could not condemn him for that. That person got the job
for that post and he was totally changed afterwards. Notes : 1. Quoted in Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (1952; rpt
Pondicherry: All India Books, 1984), pp. iii-iv. Shanker Benrji is one of the inmates of Hari Krishna Mandir, Pune and also one of the closest disciples of Dilip Kumar Roy and Indira Devi.
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