Lover of Light Among Luminaries Dilip Kumar Roy

Author(s): Amruta Paresh Patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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4: FULLER PORTRAITS
Dilip Roy has painted with great care and love the portraits of four persons who most profoundly influenced and shaped his own personality as a seeker after spirituality. He writes :
"To have known such a lover's love is blessedness, indeed - the love of a Guru like Sri Aurobindo, a friend like Subhash, a fellow-pilgrim like Krishnaprem, a daughter-disciple like Indira. When one meets such souls one does not even stop to ask if one has, indeed, merited it: one just accepts it all as a divine boon
on bended knees.""} 1:Sri Aurobindo (A) Portrait
Of all the four the most impressive portrait is that of Sri Aurobindo. Dilip Roy's intense love, reverence and loyalty towards his guru are reflected in almost all of his works. But he has written about him with concentration particularly in
(a) Among the Great (b) Sri Aurobindo Came to Me
c) Yogi Sri Krishnaprem (d) Six Illuminates of Modern India (e) Pilgrims of the Stars
In his well-known collection of six biographical sketches, Among the Great, Roy has described how he came to know of Sri Aurobindo from a foreigner. Ronald Nixon, alias. Sri Krishnaprem and how he happened to meet him for the first time in 1924 at Pondicherry. During the two interviews he took of Sri Aurobindo, he asked him many questions about his spiritual practice, his vision of bringing the descent of Supramental consciousness upon the earth and his concept of the Integral Yoga. At that time, Dilip Roy expressed his desire to stay at his Ashram to quench his thirst for spiritual life. But Sri Aurobindo asked him to wait till his seeking for spirituality may mature and be transformed from mental to psychic level.
In his next book, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, after tracing his first meeting with Sri Aurobindo in brief, he describes how he burnt his boats behind in 1928 at the sudden psychic opening to fulfil his spiritual aspiration and sat down at the feet of his divinely-appointed guru to tread the difficult path of Truth in the light of his wisdom and guidance. The book also depicts the struggles he faced on this