Lover of Light Among Luminaries Dilip Kumar Roy

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

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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy After the death of Sri Aurobindo Dilip Roy and Indira Devi settled down in their temple-house, Hari Krishna Mandir at Pune. After that, there has not been a single book of his authourship in which he did not write about her. Her image. emerges. however, more clearly from:
Pilgrims of the Stars.
The Flute Calls Still
The Rounding Off
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Kumbha, India's Ageless Festival
Roy also inspired Indira Devi to write about the unique spiritual experiences they had together in all of these books. So. they are written in collaboration.
Pilgrims of the Stars is an account of the lives of both Dilip Roy and Indira Devi. Its special distinction is that it is strictly speaking, neither a biography nor an autobiography and yet has the characteristics of both in one. It is divided into three parts. In PART ONE Dilip Roy has written about his life before he met. Indira Devi. In PART TWO Indira Devi has given an account of her own life from her childhood to her meeting with her guru. In PART THREE Roy has shown. how he came into contact with his spiritually evolved disciple and how they passed their lives together in Pune, witnessing one miraculous incident after another of Krishna's grace. (A separate study of this autobiography follows in Chapter 10 of this book.)
In the remaining three books, no chronological sequence of events of their lives is maintained. Instead of it, their spiritual experiences are recorded in a variety of manners in them.
In The Flute Calls Still, Dilip Roy has portrayed "a rare being.... as the central figure-like a star. again, among the fireflies."108 The book is written as an humble tribute to Indira Devi's innate gift for spiritual experience and also to describe how she made her daily life a pilgrimage, like Savitri. It is a collection of letters written by Indira Devi and Dilip Roy to various renowned persons of their time and also to their own disciples. The letters written by their disciples to Dilip Roy and Indira Devi are also included here. Many disciples have submitted their accounts of beautiful spiritual and almost miraculous phenomena which they witnessed taking place almost everyday in the lives of Indira Devi and Dilip Roy at Hari Krishna Mandir.
The Rounding off was meant to be the sequel of The Flute Calls Still. It is again a collection of letters written by Roy and Indira Devi and also by their Indian as well as foreigndisciples. Some of the reports of the spiritual happenings. of Hari Krishna Mandir written by their disciples are also published herewith "to appeal not only to genuine believers and seekers but also to those who, living on