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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy Subhas Chandra and Roy got a chance for heart to heart talk, Subhas Chandra complained of his loneliness to Roy. Once Roy suggested him to turn to spirituality and follow the lead of Divinity rather than to pursue the path of politics. At that time, Subhas Chandra said:
“.....I too have had the seeking you refer to. Yes.... I too once wanted to petition Divinity as a conscious Boongiver of Grace over-arching our orphaned Humanity-but of course I could not persist. The wailings of those I was leaving behind were too imperious. I could not be deaf to the miseries of our lovely India.”86
Roy often prayed to God to save his friend from "the dark and intricate tentacles of political adventurers and time-servers”, because he knew that "politics was not his native line-swadharma."87 Again, in Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen of The Subhash I Knew, Dilip Roy highlights the developed spiritual nature of Subhas Chandra and writes:
“...I want here to stress a highly significant fact about Subhash... that he had been potentially a Yogi, a contemplative whom the growing accretions of Karma of a life of frenzied activism
progressively buried in this life, anyhow.”88
Dilip Roy shows how, at some unknown call, Subhas fled from his house at the age of sixteen to find out a Guru for himself. But he could not find out one. If he had, he could have given a different message to the world. Roy also quotes from Subhas Chandra's letters written to him from various jails in which he had mentioned about his study of the Tantra philosophy which led him to believe that, "certain Mantras had an inherent Shakti-and that each mental constitution was fitted for a particular Mantra. "89 Frequently, Subhas Chandra referred to an ideal world of bliss within” in the midst of the hours of pains and torments of the prison life. Roy felt that :
"Subhas would have risen to far greater heights of self-fulfilment if he had harked to the former call. But since, evidently, he couldn'ıor, rather didn't choose to respond to the profoundest call of his
soul, he had to shape in the way he did in this life.90
From his early youth, Subhas Chandra avoided the company of women. In fact, his copy-book maxim was: "And never court the company of women.no playing with fire if you please."9 Roy comments: "Subhash was nothing if not naive about sex-till perhaps, near the journey's end, when he knew better."92
Subhas Chandra was known as a 'moralising prude' or 'puritan' at Cambridge by many young men because he never talked of women, he never mixed with
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