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where He manifests and in that case there would be no impossibility either in taking the part she did in Indira's vision of her and her action. If Indira wrote in Hindi with which she was not used to write and it was under the influence of Mirabai, that would be a fairly strong evidence of the reality of Mirabai's presence and influence on her." (7.5.50)
"It is evident... that Indira is receiving inspiration for her Hindi songs from the Mira of her vision and that her consciousness and the consciousness of Mira are collaborating on some plane superconscient to the ordinary human mind: an occult plane; also, this influence is not an illusion but a reality, otherwise the thing could not happen as it does in actual fact. Such things do happen on the occult plane, they are not new
and unprecedented." (2-6-50).".14
After their stay at Hari Krishna Mandir, Dilip Roy writes: "A great has happened since then till now, 1972: Mira is woven inextricably into our lives."115 The inspiring songs of Mira and various parables associated with songs, dictated to Roy by Indira Devi, initiated an altogether new phase of sadhana for Roy. In The Flute Calls Still Roy has given Ekanta's record of the incident in which Indira Devi's identification with Mira took place. On August 25, 1959, Roy sang one of Mira's bhajans on the theme of Godmadness in the Temple Hall. At that time Indira Devi remained in trance for a long time. When she came out of her trance, she was sobbing silently. Then, she told people present there that she had seen Mira crying like a derelict for Krishna. When Roy encouraged her to tell in detail about her vision, she spoke as if she herself was Mira and was passing through the same pain which Mira might have passed during her experience of virahu. Almost at the end of her description, she said:
"What tears I shed for my Gopal, but He still stayed away! Then, one day...... as I was sitting in the sand..... crying...... crying....... the tears were streaming down for my Gopal...... and as I watched....... the tears began to shine ! And..... as I looked, inside every single tear was Gopal Himself...... smiling, in each tiny tear-drop !.... Yes...... (clapping her hands in sudden joy).
Yes....... Gopal was smiling in each of my shining tears."116 Then. Dilip Roy explained to the audience:
"You have heard today a profoundly moving story—or, shall I say-Mira's message of love divine. It has come through Indira's consciousness and yet Mira's consciousness was, for a spell. one with hers. You may well say: Mira's message came filtering
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