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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy useless, so I will say no more. I begged you not to write about us but you just print my request and leave it at that ! You are incorrigible and if you were anyone else I should hate you, but
I can't !"55
Dilip Roy hardly followed Krishnaprem's instructions in this matter. Krishanprem was very much concerned about it. So, at the end of one of his letters he requested to Dilip Roy emphatically, "...please don't publish this letter."56 At times, he reserved his descriptions of mystical experiences because of the fear of publicity. Once in the middle of his description of such an experience he stopped and said: “No, Dilip, don't ask me, please ! I won't tell you, for you will tell everybody, don't I know you ?"57
Dilip Roy wished to write an entire book on Krishnaprem while he was living so that many people could learn a few valuable lessons of life from his knowledge, wisdom and renunciation. But Dilip Roy could not do so because of Krishnaprem's extreme dislike for publicity. Dilip Roy published the book, Yogi Sri Krishnaprem after his passing away in 1965. It seems that Krishnaprem really lived the philosophy of sannyasa in which a person's worldly self dies while he is still living. Once, somebody met Krishnaprem in a street. He, guessing his identity, asked him, "if he could tell him where “Professor Nixon" was. He merely turned away, answering casually, “Oh, he died long ago"58
Dilip Roy was very much attracted towards Krishnaprem because the later's goal was the same as his own. It was seeing Krishna face to face. Dilip Roy writes:
“.... Krishnaprem holds a unique place in my life in that, of all my dear friends, he is the only one who has trodden the same path as I have all along, to wit, the one that starts from and ends in Krishna. Of course no two persons' paths or problems can be identical all along the line; still, when all is said and done. there is such a thing as fellow-feeling or comradeship which can knit together two pilgrims of the spirit with a higher bond of psychic sympathy and love, thus forging one of the sweetest of affinities—as did happen between us despite the obvious
divergence of rhythm in our outer gait"S9 (B) Evaluation :
Dilip Roy's portrait of Krishnaprem even like that of Sri Aurobindo is entirely emotional. It lacks a critical touch. None can dispute that Krishnaprem's renunciation is spontaneous, that his love of Krishna is whole-hearted and that his commitment to the chosen goal is total. But even the greatest saint may have
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