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69 in his mental state. All his doubts dispelled, and his agnosticism was truly transformed into an authentic faith. He became a firm believer in the reality of apparently irrational spiritual occurrences. In many of his books he highlighted such occurrences in one form or the other in a vivid and meticulous manner so that the readers can feel them.
Moreover, after the physical departure of Dilip Roy's guru, Indira Devi, through her intense love and reverence, supported Dilip Roy. Roy was very sensitive and touchy by nature. Though she was the disciple of Roy, she took a great care of him. Roy often found that their roles were reversed. The disciple became the guru frequently and taught many things of spiritual import to him. He writes:
"...... after her coming to me I have wondered, often enough. whether our roles had not been reversed by Dame Destiny: that is to say, whether she had not come to me more to teach than to
learn."126 (B) Evaluation :
We see here an image not of a human being but of a perfect saint. We do not discover here the swinging of consciousness between the extremes of light and darkness, normally discovered in course of long-drawn discipline in the life of a spiritual aspirant. We see here a consistent light, instead. Indira Devi has already passed the stage of sadhana or spiritual discipline and entered the domain of siddhi or consummate realization of the end of spiritual discipline: To such a person, purity of heart and perfect morality spontaneously come from inward spiritual springs. In Indira Devi we find besides modern education, aristocratic sophistication and intellectual brilliance. Miracles are a daily occurrence in her life.
Indira Devi saw Mirabai in her visions, singing her songs and narrating the parables of her conversations with Sanatan Goswami, her guru and also with Gopal. But, there appears to be certain discrepancy between what is revealed about Mira's guru in Indira Devi's vision and what we find in Mira's numerous biographies. Usha S. Nilsson, for instance, writes
"There is considerable controversy about Mira Bai's guru (teacher). The traditional belief is that the wandering mendicant who gave Mira Bai the idol of Krishna in her childhood was no other than Raidas, the well-known disciple of Ramanand. Mira Bai has mentioned in one of her songs the name of Raidas as
her guru.”127
According to the biographical accounts, it was Jiv Goswami, not Sanatan, who refuses to see Mira in Vrindavan. 128 But in Indira Devi's vision. Mira tells
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