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FILLER PORTRAITS the borderline of faith and agnostic denial, approach the world of the supraphysical... with an open mind."109 When Dilip Roy completed the revising of the manuscript of The Flute Calls Still:Second part on September 29, 1979, he told Indira Devi: “This is my last work, put it on the shelf among the files marked "Posthumous works". and then he said: “It has been a good rounding off, hasn't it?"110 Hence, Indira Devi, after the passing away of Roy in 1980. published the book in 1983; but she dropped Roy's title and called the book the Rounding Off. In Foreword' to the book. Nani Palkhivala notes:
"Collected within the compass of the following few pages, are letters and reminiscences of Dilip Kumar Roy and his disciple, Indira Devi -- who are Exemplars of Excellence and Explorers of Brahma. These fragrant fragments of experience are both revealing and evocative. In them we see the warm hand of the philosopher, comforter and guide. Dilip Kumar Roy speaks of the eternal, timeless truths and the inquiring spirit that seeks
them."111
In Kumbha, India's Ageless Festival Dilip Kumar Roy has written about their meetings with various sadhus and seekers after spirituality during the Festival of Kumbha in 1954. The chapters are written almost alternately by Indira Devi and Dilip Roy. Here, they have attempted to vindicate the cause of spirituality and true sadhus. There are a few people, they have met at that time, who are evolved enough to crave for the lore of the spirit. Such few people, at times, live on the border-land of spiritual discovery. When they see the sadhu teaching through living the truth he stands for, their oscillation between the call of the soul on the one hand and Matter on the other can be removed. The book also reveals the authors's quest of truth and their constant spiritual leaning.
Moreover, in his fictionalized biographies like Mira and Miracles Do Still Happen, Roy has beautifully woven the story of Indira Devi's life in the forms of drama and novel. (Refer to Part Three : IMAGIMATIVE PAINTINGS of this book for further details)
Dilip Roy, in these books, focusses his attention on all those spiritual faculties of his daughter-disciple which endeared her to him.
Indira Devi's immense faith in guru and guruvad appealed to Dilip Roy very much. Indira Devi, since her first meeting with Roy, had been fully convinced that he alone was her divinely-appointed guru and nobody else. She rejected the idea of becoming the disciple of Sri Aurobindo, though she held him in high esteem. She refused the tempting proposals of Swami D., who, by hook or by crook, with his occult powers, wanted Indira Devi to be his disciple. Inidra Devi had to suffer a lot because of the black magic used by that Swami to take her
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