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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy path of spiritual achievement and the benign influence of his gurudev, through which the finer qualities of his character developed.
Sir Illuminates of Modern India contains four articles written on Sri Aurobindo
1. Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Light and Dharma 2. Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Faith and Love 3. Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Harmony and Immortality 4. Sri Aurobindo, Minstrel of Vision and Intuition
By employing the word 'minstrel' repeatedly, Dilip Roy seems to stress Sri Aurobindo's extraordinary art of singing mystical and hymn like songs of optimistic future for the whole humanity. Here, he also touches upon various aspects of higher spiritual life with which Sri Aurobindo was concerned.
In his autobiography, Pilgrims of the Stars, Dilip Roy has devoted three articles on Sri Aurobindo, viz,
(a) My First Meeting with Sri Aurobindo (b) At the Guru's Feet (c) Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-Poet
In this book, he restates almost all the details he has given in his earlier books.
By reading all these books, the reader can find those impressions of Sri Aurobindo's greatness which Roy has formed during his stay of almost 23 years at the feet of his guru in Pondicherry.
Dilip Roy, it seems, is always fascinated by 'multi-personality which could be found in one individual-his master. He is thrilled to note that
"Sri Aurobindo... was a luminous corroboration of the truth of this multimoodedness of an evolved human being, having flowered out in life as a poet, savant, revolutionary, philosopher, yogi, critic of life, commentator of scriptures, lover of man, mystic and Messiah par excellence."2
These last two characteristics of Sri Aurobindo, 'mystic and Messiah', along with his vision of the higher future of humanity, appealed to Dilip Roy the most from the very beginning of his acquaintance with him. Sri Aurobindo's notion of bringing down the new Supramental light on the earth for the transformation and liberation of the human life was the hot topic of discussion among the intelligentsia of Dilip Roy's time. When Dilip Roy, during his first
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