... Sketches and Other Autobiographical Notes Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch. Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece in June 1930 for publication in Among the Great , a book written by his disciple Dilip Kumar Roy. He used the third person because he wished the piece to appear as an impersonal statement from an anonymous "authoritative source". Among the Great consists of accounts of Dilip's meetings... present volume. Appendix: Letters on "Sri Aurobindo: A Life Sketch". [1] Circa September - October 1928. Sri Aurobindo wrote these sentences in the margin of a letter written by Dilip Kumar Roy shortly before he joined the Ashram in November 1928.[2] This paragraph is part of a letter from Sri Aurobindo to Dilip dated 16 March 1930. The balance of the letter deals with various writings... between 1962 and 1967, was an academic in England. (In 1935 he was appointed Spaulding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at Oxford.) In August 1934 he approached Sri Aurobindo through Dilip Kumar Roy, asking him to contribute an article for a proposed volume on contemporary Indian philosophy. In a letter of September 1934, published in Letters on Himself and the Ashram , volume 35 of THE ...
... personality, the mind and spirit of Dilip Kumar Roy; for it is his own eager search for truth and beauty and goodness that has taken him to the very centre of each great man interviewed, and has done this across various paths so that the word of wisdom when it comes out throws light on a multiplicity of interests, trends, movements, aspects of life. Dilip Kumar Roy himself emerges as an extremely interesting... The Indian Spirit and the World's Future The Mind and Spirit of Our Age: Dilip Kumar Roy's Interviews with Five World-Figures Dilip Kumar Roy was a famous Bengali musician, poet, novelist and disciple of Sri Aurobindo. Several of his articles appeared in 'Mother India'. (K.D.S. 2004) " AMONG the Great" 1 - a book of con... , wanting woman to remain shackled and inferior nor is he in favour of old cramping customs; Russell has a good word for Tagore's progressiveness and, as shown by the excerpt from a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy in the Foreword which adorned the original Indian edition of the book but which has unaccountably been dropped from this American one, Havelock Ellis who has done champion service in breaking ancient ...
... 171-172 [21] Nishikanto: The Mystic Poet and Artist, p. 127 [22] Ibid., p. 128 [23] Dream Cadences, pp. 3-5 (Translated by Dilip Kumar Roy) [24] Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, Volume 5, pp. 614-615 [25] Dream Cadences, p. 46 (Translated by Dilip Kumar Roy) [26] Dhiraj Banerjee, Nishikanto: The Mystic Poet and Artist, Mother India, April 1994, pp. 274-276 [27] Ibid., pp. 277-278... Pondicherry Nishikanto arrived in Pondicherry in February 1934 (though there seems to be a confusion regarding the exact month of his arrival since some letters written by Sri Aurobindo to Dilip Kumar Roy indicate that he was in Pondicherry in 1933). He knew no one in the Ashram but had heard that Dilip Kumar had facilitated the admission of many an aspirant in the Ashram. Dilip Kumar was then... Bengali, his first and only book of English poetry Dream Cadences saw the light of the day in April 1946. The collection consisted of his original poems as well as translation of his poems made by Dilip Kumar Roy. It also included the following song of Nishikanto translated by Sri Aurobindo himself on 7 February 1941: King and Devotee The Kings of kings has made you a king, Your sceptre gave, your ...
... to him by his disciple Dilip Kumar Roy. 3 There are at least three hand-written and two typed manuscripts of this poem. A printed text was produced sometime before 1941, but apparently was never published. Moon of Two Hemispheres. July 1934. Like "Thought the Paraclete", this poem originated in an attempt to duplicate a Bengali metre pro-posed by Dilip Kumar Roy. Replying to Dilip, Sri... I have to admit that I am beaten by your last metre. I have written something, but it is a fake." He then wrote out the first stanza of the poem, pointing out where he had 3 Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram,1952), p. 237. Page 714 failed to meet Dilip's specifications. He closed by saying: "I have some idea of adding... with close-to-final drafts of "Transformation" and "The Other Earths". The Silver Call . Written on or before 25 April 1934 (when Sri Aurobindo quoted five lines in a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy); revised 1944.Five handwritten manuscripts and one typed manuscript; the first handwritten manuscript was written shortly after those of the two preceding sonnets. The original poem went ...
... personality, the mind and spirit of Dilip Kumar Roy; for it is his own eager search for truth and beauty and goodness that has taken him to the very centre of each great man interviewed, and has done this across various paths so that the word of wisdom when it comes out throws light on a multiplicity of interests, trends, movements, aspects of life. Dilip Kumar Roy himself emerges as an extremely... wanting woman to remain shackled and inferior nor is he in favour of old cramping customs; Russell has a good word for Tagore's progressiveness and, as shown by the excerpt from a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy in the Foreword which adorned the original Indian edition of the book but which has unaccountably been dropped from this American one, Havelock Ellis who has done champion service in breaking... or their dreams. And it is just because of discerning such a synthesis of the essential best in them and at the same time an integrality and harmony vastly superior to what they offer that Dilip Kumar Roy reaches his goal at the feet of Sri Aurobindo, the Yogi of the dynamic divinisation of the human, the Yogi who is also a poet, a philosopher, a social thinker, a man of idealistic action ...
... would leave it, sometimes after many years; others would become the pillars of the work. There are names that have become well-known for a variety of reasons: Dyuman, Champaklal, Barin, Purani, Dilip Kumar Roy, Pavitra, Pujalal, Nirodbaran, K.D. Sethna (of his Ashram name Amal Kiran), etc. Others, and not necessarily less notable, have given their best in anonymity. In 1925 there were about fifteen of... delight of meeting the unexpected. There were peals of laughter and light talk, jokes and criticism which might be called personal — there was seriousness and earnestness in abundance.’ 49 Dilip Kumar Roy was born in ‘one of the most aristocratic Brahmin families of Bengal.’ His father was a poet and playwright, and Dilip, when still young, made a name for himself as a singer mainly of religious... impression of one not only close to one but a part of one’s existence … It was the same inward recognition (apart even from the deepest spiritual connection) that brought you here.’ 51 Dilip Kumar Roy always held his guru in high esteem, but he never fully understood who Sri Aurobindo actually was nor the mission he had come to execute on Earth. The Mother he never accepted inwardly, and in ...
... heart— Know: it all derives from a gleam of my sun-splendour" (Translated by Sri Dilip Kumar Roy) Such a manifestation of sun-splendour that is Sri Aurobindo, "mighty and forceful" brought forth the flowering of grace, beauty and glorious opulence in a multifaceted form, in the life of Sri Dilip Kumar Roy—our Dadaji. 1 This process is superbly documented for the first time, first hand, in... Guru and the disciple but this was not possible at this time. However, the discerning readers may be able to construct the background through the perusal of Sri Aurobindo's letters. As Dadaji Sri Dilip Kumar Roy proclaimed once, "I have written not because of the part played by me but because through my conflict and aspirations, an aspect of his [Sri Aurobindo's] incredible self comes to the fore—a self... beautiful and as perfect as possible. We also thank Patrice Marot for his patience and his selfless work. We offer our humble pranams to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as well as to Dadaji Sri Dilip Kumar Roy and Ma Indira Devi. We seek their blessings for our journey of the spirit. Shankar Bandyopadhyay Hari Krishna Mandir, Pune February 21, 2003 Page 16 ...
... In 1953, the Government of India, sent Sri Dilip Kumar Roy and Smt. Indira Devi on a cultural mission around the world. They were also invited by the Stanford University to give lectures on Indian philosophy and music. A litterateur, a musician, a musicologist-composer par excellence, a philosopher and a spiritual personality, Sri Dilip Kumar Roy was the right choice to be the cultural ambassador... and the process is further expanding, as we can perceive. We are glad that we are able to complete our task and present this fourth and final volume of Sri Aurobindo’s letters to Sri Dilip Kumar Roy. It covers the period from 1938 to 1950. Mother’s letters including the ones written after 1950 to Sri Dilip Kumar are also given in this fourth volume. Sri Dilip Kumar responded to... also thank the whole team at Mira Aditi who willingly helped in many ways. Our thanks are due to Dr. Karan Singh for writing the preface. We acknowledge his love and respect for our Guru Sri Dilip Kumar Roy and his continued regard for the Hari Krishna Mandir. I would like to end this note with a blessing of love from Sri Satprem which he personally sent me in February, 2005. r ...
... × See the section on Sri Aurobindo in Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great . × Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me , p. 515. × ... 44 Champaklal would come back to stay for good in 1923 and become a lifelong servitor of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. His brother, Bansidhar, would become an Ashramite four years later. Dilip Kumar Roy was born into ‘one of the most aristocratic Brahmin families of Bengal.’ His father was a poet and playwright, and Dilip, when still young, made a name for himself as a singer, mainly of religious... × Paul Richard, To India, pp. 18, 30. × Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great, pp. 324 ff. × Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, SABCL 26 p. 130. ...
... seven issues the French magazine was discontinued. Once Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple about the Arya : "It will be the intellectual side of my work for the world.” ¹ In another letter to Dilip Kumar Roy he said : "And philosophy! Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher – although I have written philosophy which is another story altogether. I knew precious little... Aurobindo as well as the two journals Prabartak and The Standard Bearer were being published by the Prabartak Samgha. Motilal and others had been expecting that when Sri Aurobindo ¹ Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1950), pp. 337-39: See Appendix II, pp. 306-08. Page 178 returned to British India to start his work in the external field... for some of them for help with meditation. Others were assigned mornings for personal interviews; either Thursdays and Saturdays or Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 24 January. Interview of Dilip Kumar Roy with Sri Aurobindo. 30 January. The evening sitting was resumed. 31 January. A letter from Kirparam of Agra: reference to the Radhaswami Sampradaya, description of his experiences, request ...
... Incarnate. So many regard Mahatma Gandhi in the same light. My own mother—whose sincerity I cannot doubt—has a guru whom she regards as God incarnate."—Extract from a letter of Subhas Chandra Bose to Dilip Kumar Roy, dated Vienna, 23 December 1935. As for the desperate Subhas, why the deuce does he want every body to agree with him and follow his line of conduct or belief? That is the never realised dream... 162-63. × All the letters in this group except the one dated 2 July 1938 were written to Dilip Kumar Roy, who was a close friend of Subhas Chandra Bose.—Ed. × Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness... Other Essays ( London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935 ), pp. 35-36. × The Subhash I Knew, by Dilip Kumar Roy ( Bombay, Nalanda Publications, 1946 ). ...
... fourth capacity, a pointer to which is already in the word "spiritual": we have sat at the feet of the same guru, Sri Aurobindo, in whose Ashram at Pondicherry I had been for nearly a year when Dilip Kumar Roy came there, "burning his boats" behind him but bringing with him the flame which had lit that bonfire — his colourful, many-shaded, complicated, questioning, impetuous, expansive and at the same... subtle gracefulness and evocative skill and mostly with a graphic touch and a tang of personality which saves even a slightly discursive tendency here and there from being unattractive. The man Dilip Kumar Roy stands out clear -— at times astonishingly simple, at times peculiarly intricate — neither protected by amour propre nor covered by false modesty. There is a fine frankness here and, in addition... growing towards divinity within that nature's complex terms — it is thus that Sri Aurobindo with his towering spiritual realisations and with his promise of earth-transforming Supermind came to Dilip Kumar Roy and comes through his book to the commonalty no less than to the elite unsatisfied with the surface of things in the modem world. The coming is the more effective because it takes place ...
... with a simple and energetic straight-forwardness what one means to say, so that one can add grace of language without disturbing this basis. Arnold is a very good model for this purpose. (To Dilip Kumar Roy) 16 May 1932 Theme 2. Avoid over-writing; let all your sentences be the vehicle of something worth saying and say it with a vivid precision neither defective nor excessive. Don't let either... powers and voices it has still to acquire. It is necessary that its poets should keep a full and entire freedom to turn in whatever way the genius leads, to find new forms and movements. (To Dilip Kumar Roy) Theme 5. Too violent condensations of language or too compressed thoughts always create a sense either of obscurity or, if not that, then of effort and artifice, even if a powerful and inspired... lucidity, measure almost clumsy... The great prose-writers in English seem to seize you by the personality they express in their style rather than by its perfection as an instrument.... (To Dilip Kumar Roy) Theme 8. I am in general agreement with your answer to M's strictures on certain points in your style and your use of English language. His objections have usually some ground, but are not ...
... Page 201 of wonders to find so many class poets like Amal Kiran, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Nishikanto, Arjava, Dilip Kumar Roy, Nirodbaran; painters such as Jayantilal, Krishnalal, Nishikanto, Sanjiban, Amal Kiran; and singers like Dilip Kumar Roy, Sahana Devi, Bhishmadev Chattopadhyay, Venkatraman, all enriching with their art forms a small community of some one hundred inmates... perhaps too ethereal to be grasped by the average western reader but, mystic experiences being universal by nature, they were readily identified here by people engaged in spiritual pursuit. Dilip Kumar Roy had corresponded with "A.E." and had sent him six of Amal Kiran's poems, requesting him to comment on them. Unfortunately, "A.E." was very ill at the time and not in a position to write at length ...
... a German girl who at first was his secretary, whom he later married, and who was left behind with their baby daughter in Vienna; and Dilip Kumar Roy, known to us and who brings us back again on the path of our story. In 1933, Bose ‘begged his friend Dilip Kumar Roy to leave his yogic cell because he needed someone he could trust’ to present India to the world. That ‘yogic cell’ should be taken with... he himself wanted to be recognized by her as the Avatar! All this makes us understand better his depressions and suicidal thoughts which he confided in 1928 during a nocturnal conversation to Dilip Kumar Roy in Nice. However, an emanation is not the being itself in its fullness, and the Asuras of Death and Falsehood watchfully refrain from incarnating themselves in their essence, for by so doing ...
... In his biography of Sri Aurobindo, K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar calls the years from 1933 to 38 ‘the golden years of his yogic correspondence.’ We are indebted to those years for the 4,000 letters to Dilip Kumar Roy, the three volumes of correspondence with Nagin Doshi and the ample exchange of letters with K.D. Sethna, as well as for the numerous letters to so many others. The Letters on Yoga in Sri Aurobindo’s... precise intellectual word, apt only for logical or practical thought or to express the physical and superficial, could not at all hope to manifest.’ 33 The best known Ashram poets were: Dilip Kumar Roy, as a poet characterized by Rabindranath Tagore as ‘the cripple who threw away his crutches and started running’ since he wrote under Sri Aurobindo’s guidance and inspiration; Arjava, the Sanskrit... consideration. Nirodbaran had obtained his medical certificate in Great Britain from the University of Edinburgh. He heard for the first time of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a meeting with Dilip Kumar Roy in Paris. He visited Pondicherry in 1930 and had an interview with the Mother. After two or three disappointing years as a physician in Burma, he was accepted as a member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram ...
... there came - some for the first time, some for good - ardent spirits such as Dyuman, Janet and Vaun , McPheeters, Daulat and K. D. Sethna, Chandulal Shah and his sister Vasudha, Sahana Devi and Dilip Kumar Roy, J. A. Chadwick, Miss Maitland, Rishabhchand, and a host of others, most of whom were to make the Ashram their permanent home. With regard to many of those who thus made a beeline for P... forty, but he had certainly "arrived" in the vicinity of that goal which one of his greatest poems "Moksha" characterises as Truth's abidingness Self-Blissful and Alone. IV Dilip Kumar Roy first visited Pondicherry in 1924, but at that time Sri Aurobindo told him that his was mental seeking as yet, and Dilip should wait a little longer. Four years later the call was more insistent... in Edinburgh, he "arrived all on a sudden at Pondicherry" in the first week of January 1930, without having informed the Mother about his visit. While still in Europe he and his niece had met Dilip Kumar Roy, and "came to know from him something about the Mother, Sri Aurobindo and the Ashram". It was Dilip who took Nirod to the Mother. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a 'visionary gleam' ...
... On Poets and Poetry Letters on Poetry and Art Comments on the Work of Poets of the Ashram Dilip Kumar Roy It is again a beautiful poem that you have written, 1 but not better than the other. Why erect mental theories and suit your poetry to them whether your father's or Tagore's? I would suggest to you not to be bound by either, but to write... letter that was subsequently revised. The revised version is published on page 568 .—Ed. × Dilip Kumar Roy , Sri Chaitanya: A Drama in Three Acts ( Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1950 ). × The name ...
... is born a poet one remains so when the man in one has undergone a new birth. Perhaps my point will be illuminated from another angle if I quote to you a part of a letter of Sri Aurobindo's to Dilip Kumar Roy when Radha-krishnan wanted a philosophical article for a compilation: "Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher - although I have written philosophy which... poets, provided the critic realises in full the difficulty the translator is bound to face here. The ideal translator, according to Sri Aurobindo, is one who, like his disciple and my friend Dilip Kumar Roy, "can carry over the spirit of a poem, the characteristic power of its language and the turn of its rhythmical movement from one language to another", even "languages so alien in temperament ...
... for us all, the disciple, in this case, Dilip Kumar Roy, had preserved his Master's letters with meticulous care and the Hari Krishna Mandir, which he later established in Pune, where these letters were enshrined, has now taken up this task of publishing them, with the collaboration of Mira Aditi. Of all the disciples of Sri Aurobindo, Dilip Kumar Roy was one to whom the Guru gave the utmost ...
... prospect of all this hard labour and rushes back scared behind the veil?" (Nirodbaran: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, Volume One, p. 197) Page 94 The second case concerns Dilip Kumar Roy. Roy was indeed a most beloved disciple of Sri Aurobindo. The Master considered him to be his friend and son and once declared that not a day passed when he did not think of Dilip Kumar. Sri... otherwise. There is a great mystery facing us here. The divine Providence is as deep as the sea. Let us try to elucidate the point. At a moment of great distress and psychological crisis Dilip Kumar Roy wrote a long letter to Sri Aurobindo which inter alia raised the very question we are now concerned with. In an equally long reply the Master explained to the disciple the exact position in ...
... twice, its full name has been indicated in the Reference List itself. 1. AA: K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), The Adventure of the Apocalypse (Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay, 1949). 2. AG: Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Jaico Publishing House, Bombay, 1950). 3. AR: Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. I, No. 1 (Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, 1977). 4. B-l: K.R. Srinivasa... 27. Poems: Arjava (f.A. Chadwick), Poems (John M. Watkins, London, 1939). 28. PR: Sri Aurobindo, The Problem of Rebirth (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1978). 29. SAC: Dilip Kumar Roy, Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952). 30. SAH: Nirodbaran, Sri Aurobindo's Humour (Correspondence Part III) (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ...
... first passing visit to the Ashram. A close relative and intimate friend of mine was the direct inspirer of that visit. With very litde idea about Yoga and much less respect for it, I came and met Dilip Kumar Roy, whose acquaintance I had made earlier. He was very much surprised to see me and seemed almost to say, "You here?" But when the first shock was over, his generous heart responded to my unexpected... to Pondicherry. Now [I shall describe] my life in the Ashram. The Ashram was at that time humming with the activities of poets and musicians; creative activity was in full swing with Dilip Kumar Roy as the nucleus. I caught the inspiration and began to cherish the ambition of budding into a poet. Dilip gave us some preliminary lessons in Bengali metre. One day, I composed a short poem which ...
... could always write like that, you would take your place among English poets and no low placc either. I consider they can rank—these eight lines— with the very best in English poetry." To Dilip Kumar Roy: "Amal's lines are not easily translatable, least of all into Bengali. There is in them a union or rather fusion of high severity of speech with exaltation and both with a pervading intense sweetness... occult) can avoid these words, but I can't. Besides, all poets have their favourite words and epithets which they constantly repeat. AE himself has been charged with a similar crime." To Dilip Kumar Roy: "AE's remarks about 'immensity', etc., are very interesting to me; for these are the very words, with others like them, that are constantly recurring at short intervals in my poetry when I express ...
... time with Sri A.B. Purani in his rooms in the Ashram learning about yoga. They took us children along and we played on the floor of the room at the feet of Puraniji while the elders conversed. Dilip Kumar Roy, the great bhakta [a yogi devoted to the Divine in the heart] and great musician and singer, lived there at the time. Once a week in the late evening hours, he would share hours of his music with... that it is known even now or will ever be known. But the feeling remained that there was nothing beyond… that this was the Absolute. On one occasion I just happened to be in the line behind Dilip Kumar Roy. There he was… his being and his very body swaying in his love, devotion and bhakti for Sri Aurobindo, Lost to the world and only conscious of him. Peeking from behind the flowing robes I saw the ...
... about the Supramental Manifestation whenever it would occur. I came to do it." One more incident apropos of the Manifestation. This was much before 1956, during the time of Sri Aurobindo. Dilip Kumar Roy noted that the Mother was spending several hours in the Playground. He wrote to Sri Aurobindo asking whether the Supermind was going to descend there; he even sought permission to join the Playground... that if the Supermind was going to descend in the Playground he himself would not get it as he wouldn't be going there! And yet see the irony of events! Sri Aurobindo had left his body and Dilip Kumar Roy the Ashram. And the Manifestation indeed took place in the Playground. The Mother was giving us the meditation after the Wednesday class when this happened. The same year I met the Mother ...
... Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II Preface This is the second volume of Sri Aurobindo's letters to Dadaji, Sri Dilip Kumar Roy. The first volume was published by us in August 2003. It covered the period between 1929 and 1933. This volume spans only two years 1934 and 1935 as the correspondence between the Master and the disciple grew in volume, frequency... gratefully acknowledge the dedicated work of "Mira Aditi" team under the guidance of Revered Satprem and Sujata Didi. We offer our humble pranams to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Dadaji Sri Dilip Kumar Roy and Ma Indira Devi. We seek their blessings for our journey of the Spirit. Dol Purnima 26th March 2005 Shankar Bandopadhyay Hari Krishna Mandir Page 12 ...
... × Ibid. × See Dilip Kumar Roy, Yogi Krishnaprem , pp. 53 ff. × Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon , p. 107. ... She would initiate Ronald Nixon, professor of English at the same university, naming him Krishnaprem. We find many letters to and from this Krishnaprem in the correspondence of Dilip Kumar Roy, a friend of Krishnaprem and disciple of Sri Aurobindo, to whom D.K. Roy forwarded those letters. × ...
... (Dilip received a letter from Dr. Sarvepalli Radha- Krishnan of Andhra University asking Sri Aurobindo to write a statement for a book on "Contemporary British Philosophy.") "My dear Dilip Kumar Roy, "I am sending the enclosed to Sri Aurobindo Ghose. You can easily understand my anxiety to have a contribution contra J hope he wil1 be kind enough to oblige me by contributing a statement... , again asking Sri Aurobindo for a statement to be included in a volume on "Contemporary British philosophy". Sri Aurobindo's annotations were written on the letter.) "My dear Mr. Dilip Kumar Roy, Page 121 "Your letter of the 9th instant. I realise that Sri Aurobindo will be very much pre-occupied with other things, but may I impose on you the real importance of a specific ...
... Aurobindo to Dilip, he wrote letters constantly, and in particular was engaged in a massive correspondence with one of his favourite and favoured disciples, the famous Bengali poet and writer Dilip Kumar Roy Page 6 whom he called “a friend and a son”. In these letters, which are full of humour and humanity, Sri Aurobindo covers a wide range of matters and ideas. For the first... occasion arose, in Delhi, Hardwar and elsewhere. After Dilipda left his body I continued to interact with Indira Devi who herself was a highly spiritually developed person. All in all, therefore, Dilip Kumar Roy has had a major impact on my life and I consider it a privilege to be asked to write a short foreword for the Fourth Volume of these letters. They represent a treasure trove of inspiration and ...
... memorandum by Jawaharlal Nehru, ‘State of Affairs at the Aurobindo Ashram,’ written on 22 December 1952, nine days later, and also addressed to the general secretary, M.E.A. ‘I had a visit from Shri Dilip Kumar Roy of Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry. He was much concerned at the state of the Ashram, which according to him consists of eight hundred persons now. He complained about the “Mother”. He said... collected. Why is this money collected? He expressed his gratification at the fact that we refused to allow a concession to the Mother to sell her jewellery without payment of customs dues. 4. Shri Dilip Kumar Roy wanted us to bring some pressure on the Mother or on the French Government in regard to the Ashram and in regard to the so-called University.’ 68 Etc. These two memoranda throw a harsh light ...
... written directly in English. We have not primarily to consider translated work while judging Nishikanto in the English garb: the best of it speaks much for his pure force, as also for the merit of Dilip Kumar Roy who has rendered so well the Bengali originals; but Nishikanto the poet dealing straight away with the English medium is what is of paramount interest from the point of view of the wonders the... awakened in the outer being — a fusion to be realised by us of "an angel of power" and "an angel of beauty". The whole is an unforgettable piece of symbolic verse and the translator Dilip Kumar Roy has risen fully to the occasion. He has acquitted himself just as inspiredly in Osc i llation, a poem charged with the Yogi's surge towards the Supra-cosmic, conquering all great obstacles whether ...
... because a number of cultist mystagogues have employed them cheaply. Here a reference to a correspondence between my friend Dilip Kumar Roy and AE and to some comments by Sri Aurobindo is likely to be of interest and profit. AE wrote from Dublin on 6.2.1932: "Dear Dilip Kumar Roy, Your letter has come at a time when I am too troubled in mind to write, as I would like, about the poems you send ...
... oneness with the Infinite and his destiny of a Life Divine. After reading this article Dilip Kumar Roy came to my place in Bombay and, as soon as I opened the door, surprised me by bending down to my feet! Of course I caught him halfways. [See Page 168: Note on Dilip Kumar Roy] Page 102 ...
... energy in his pursuit of victory in these intellectual battles. The readers cannot but be thrilled with the robust and profound polemical writings K.D.S. We are reminded in this connection of what Dilip Kumar Roy once said abut this aspect of Sethna’s intelligence. Roy observed:. “I remember once how he [K.D.S.] debated with Krishnaprem in my living-room. I envied his dialectical intelligence! And K... bucket.” A little while ago we were referring to Amal-da’s basic modesty in self-appreciation. His humility vis-à-vis his spiritual mentors and their judgments has to be seen to be believed. Dilip Kumar Roy once remarked about him: “One meets clever people often, and highly intelligent people, too, now and then. But seldom does one meet an intelligence which aspires to be replenished at the fount ...
... Down Memory Lane Dilip Kumar Roy I had heard of Dilip Kumar Roy, son of Dwijendra Lai Roy, a reputed literary figure of Bengal. Dilip Kumar, himself a musician of fame, was a literary talent as well. I enjoyed listening to his music available through the HMV records. But when I heard him singing in person, it was an experience of a still higher order, more vibrant ...
... different: it was to change the world, this world, to transfigure into a New Heaven and a New Earth this bank and these meadows of Time. As he recapitulated in the course of an interview with Dilip Kumar Roy: I too wanted at one time to transform through my Yoga the face of the world. I had wanted to change the fundamental nature and movements of humanity, to exile all the evils which affect... harnessing above all the breakthrough spiritual force of sovereign Supermind. It was a significant victory, no doubt; but the victory was also tinged with disappointment. As he told Dilip Kumar Roy: It was then that my outlook changed with the knowledge born of my new Yogic consciousness. But then I found, to my utter disillusionment, that it was only my ignorance which had led ...
... diligently and reverently the evolution and consummation of his Personality. V The biographer's task, however, is by no means easy. Sri Aurobindo himself once wrote to his disciple, Dilip Kumar Roy: "Neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see." Again, in the course of a conversation, Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said:... means exceptional. Ambalal Purani, after meeting Sri Aurobindo in 1918, wrote: "I felt a spiritual light surrounding his face. His look was penetrating." 40 Having met Sri Aurobindo in 1942, Dilip Kumar Roy made this record of his impressions in Among the Great: "A radiant personality! " — sang the air itself about him. A deep aura of peace ringed him round, an ineffable yet concrete peace ...
... Sketch", reproduced on pages 5-10 of Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest, volume 36 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. See also Sri Aurobindo's letters to Dilip Kumar Roy about the "Life Sketch" and about biography in general on pages 11-13 of the same volume.—Ed. × ...
... Other Letters of Historical Interest on Yoga and Practical Life (1921-1938) Autobiographical Notes On a Proposed Visit by Jawaharlal Nehru DILIP KUMAR ROY: Nehru may be here about the 17th of this month. What do you think of my asking him to spend the day (or two) at my flat? Then surely he would want to ask the Mother for an interview. Your force will ...
... (English perfectly—at least I hope so—Bengali a little), there were four here whose work seemed to me to contain already in a fairly ample way the ripe possibility of the thing I wanted—yourself [ Dilip Kumar Roy ], Arjava, Amal, Harin. (I do not speak of Nishikanta and others because they are new or emergent only). There are some Gujarati poets but I do not know the poetic language and technique in that ...
... Aurobindo Ashram. Seven of these recipients deserve special mention, since their names occur frequently in the correspondence, and their poems are discussed in letters reproduced in Part Two: Dilip Kumar Roy (1897-1980), Harindranath Chattopadhyaya (1898-1990), Arjava (J. A. Chadwick) (1899-1939), Jyotirmayi (1902-?), Nirodbaran (1903-), Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) (1904-), and Nishikanta (1909-1973) ...
... but I can't. Besides, Page 15 all poets have their favourite words and epithets which they constantly repeat. AE himself has been charged with a similar crime." To Dilip Kumar Roy: "AE's remarks about 'immensity', etc., are very interesting to me; for these are the very words, with others like them, that are constantly recurring at short intervals in my poetry when I ...
... could always write like that, you would take your place among English poets and no low place either. I consider they can rank— these eight lines—with the very best in English poetry." To Dilip Kumar Roy: "Amal's lines are not easily translatable, least of all into Bengali. There is in them a union or rather fusion of high severity of speech with exaltation and both with a pervading intense ...
... Christ (New York: Herder and Herder, 1969), p. 226, lists three serious objections against its historicity" (p. 115, fn. 192). P.P.S. I am enclosing a copy of a letter of Sri Aurobindo to Dilip Kumar Roy in the thirties. It is related to some of the matters we have been discussing. Page 82 Enclosed Letter THE OLD YOGAS AND THE INTEGRAL YOGA* I believe ...
... offered to Sri Aurobindo and who had received his comment on it and with whom he had kept up correspondence even during the years when there had been no correspondence except with one other sadhak, Dilip Kumar Roy, the passing of Sri Aurobindo was like a universal sunset. But the Mother assured him: "Nothing has changed. Turn to Sri Aurobindo for inspiration as before and you will always receive it. Nothing ...
... And yet what a gulf of difference between the individual character and force of the one and that of the other! The vision is merely skimmed in Browning: it is caught with its depths wide open in Dilip Kumar Roy. Both thought and feeling in Roy are luminously and rapturously mystical: they have in Browning no turn or tremor beyond a lightly lyricised religious outlook's. The profound glow and rapture in ...
... The opening section, written last, got the comment: "It is exceedingly good—one might say, perfect. Dante seems always to inspire you to your best." Sri Aurobindo wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy about this section: "Amal in his translation of Dante has let himself go in the direction of eloquence more than Dante who is too succinct for eloquence and he has used also a mystical turn ...
... quite a few people who could be considered in cultural and literary fields equal of any of the greats in those spheres outside. To name a few: Nolini, Pavitra, Amrita, Anilbaran, Dilip Kumar Roy, Sahana Devi, Amal Kiran, Nishikanto. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have hinted that in their past lives some of these sadhaks had been great historical figures, and now in this life they ...
... of Amal Kiran F ROM the time I came to Pondicherry as a small boy in the year 1946, I had heard the name of Amal Kiran together with that of Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, of Dilip Kumar Roy, Arjava and a few others as the poets inspired and moulded by Sri Aurobindo himself. Those were indeed the halcyon days of the Ashram at least as far as the Arts and Culture were concerned ...
... arrived and had to stay a few days on the footpath in front of the Ashram, awaiting Sri Aurobindo’s permission to enter for Darshan or for joining the Ashram. He sent word “Up” through Dilip-da (Dilip Kumar Roy) about himself and his intentions. A few days later Nolini-da came out, and talked to him. The following is a gist of their conversation. Nolini-da: So you want to stay in this Ashram? Kobi: ...
... often enough the eyes will bear out the essential character of their owner. (Well understood that the photo has to be clear.) A word about the title of the book. I saw somewhere a book by Dilip Kumar Roy titled “Among the Great”, wherein he has written about some well-known persons he met like Bertrand Russell (if I remember right) and others. That title gave me the cue for this book — as I have ...
... journeying from one religious centre to another — Dakshineshwar, Benaras and others.” “He felt the chosen haven still eluding him. This went on for three years, till one day he learnt that his cousin Dilip Kumar Roy was coming on a visit to his home town. Dilip had left his home nine years earlier, and was residing at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, having taken up a life of yoga.” Kalyan-da, from his ...
... their own. Many knew an attack may take place. When it did come in the early part of the night, there was a music programme in the Ashram. (A few programmes were held in the Ashram in those days — Dilip Kumar Roy, Omkarnath Thakur, etc. had sung in the Meditation Hall.) Birenda and another person were going to the Playground. They were met by the mob near the Post-Office corner. The mob fell on Birenda ...
... Aurobindo during the 1930s. His batchmates were wonderful giants like Arjava(Arjavanada was the name given to the British logician-poet J.A. Chadwick by Sri Aurobindo), Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Dilip Kumar Roy, Nishikanto, Nirodbaran, Jyotirmayi - just to name a few. Reflecting on a joint photo of Amal and Harin belonging to this period, this is what Amal says: "Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, already ...
... to Sri Aurobindo his difficulty in reconciling his adoration of Krishna with his devotion to Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo told him: ‘There is no difference between me and Krishna.’ 16 To Dilip Kumar Roy, who till the end struggled with a similar problem of divided loyalties, Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘Krishna is here in the Ashram and it is his work that is being done here,’ and to another sadhak: ...
... the Prayers and Meditations had been written. For instance, Sri Aurobindo’s battle in the 1930s to bring the Supermind down on Earth remained known only to a small circle of disciples around Dilip Kumar Roy and Nirodbaran Talukdar, to whom Sri Aurobindo gave some glimpses of his gigantic yogic effort in his correspondence with them. The important series of articles written for the Bulletin and later ...
... edition of this book was published by Jaico Publishing House as a pocket book edition. During the decade after the first edition Dadaji wrote that much water had _______________________ Sri Dilip Kumar Roy was called lovingly as Dadaji by his devotees & disciples. Page XI flown down the river of his life resulting naturally in a change of perspective. In the preface of this ...
... manifestation that takes place, manifestation of a growing Divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above Page 210 The Mother blessing Dilip Kumar Roy The Mother blessing, Indira Devi the human even in childhood. So the view held by 'many' is erroneous." It will serve no useful purpose to go into the why ...
... Godhead's debt, The debt the Eternal owes to the fallen kind His will has bound to death and struggling life That yearns in vain for rest and endless peace." 1 February 21,1950 DILIP KUMAR ROY Postscript. I gratefully acknowledge my debt to my friends, Miss Joyce Chadwic, K. D. Sethna and Professor Sisir Kumar Ghosh of Santiniketan for the help I received from them. ...
... a single devotee, reading this play, feels even a fraction of the rapture and sense of illumination that I have felt while writing it, I shall deem myself amply repaid for my pains. DILIP KUMAR ROY Page 86 ...
... sweet, of his inner intimacy was meant to be. Over years this intimacy had been shown through wonderful letters continued even in the time - the last six years of his Life - when, except with Dilip Kumar Roy, all correspondence had stopped. During those years I Page 232 was away from the Ashram but Sri Aurobindo overlooked the whole distance from Pondicherry to Bombay and sent me some ...
... But the Mother has seen Debu, Pranab's brother, as having been Page 298 the latter. So Danton has to be our choice. To me Sri Aurobindo wrote that he had "a psychic memory" of Dilip Kumar Roy as Horace, evidently a carry-over from the time he had been Augustus. The Mother, on one Pranam-occasion, saw two figures behind Dilip. When she described them to Sri Aurobindo he identified them ...
... Sri Aurobindo Centres. You have to understand what sort of book The Life Divine is. No doubt it is addressed to the intellect but it is at the same time, as Aldous Huxley wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy, an extraordinarily fine piece of literature and, chiefly, a mass of spiritual knowledge couched in intellectual and literary terms. This spiritual knowledge is from what Sri Aurobindo has called ...
... half-century from 24.4.39 crowd upon my memory. After the accident to Sri Aurobindo's right leg on the night of November 23, 1938, all correspondence with him was stopped except in the case of Dilip Kumar Roy and myself. We were allowed to keep writing to him up to the time he left his body. Through Nirod he replied to every letter from me and commented on whatever poetry or prose I sent him. Not only ...
... abandoned his political activity but was secretly continuing it. The young man's rebellion came to a head one morning when he rushed up to the door leading to the Mother's interview-room. Dilip Kumar Roy was with her. He came to the door to answer the loud knockings. As soon as he opened it. The rebel stepped in. Dilip, having a bulky body, served as a good buffer between the Mother and the ...
... Thanks to him, I was able even to keep a stove and use it — I mean he managed it and I enjoyed its benefits. I am not very good at house-keeping and, though my incompetence may not match that of Dilip Kumar Roy who once told me that if he had to dust his own furniture every day he would prefer to commit suicide. (laughter) I have been pretty much of a dud in domestic science. I used always to think ...
... looked at him. I told you last time how I had looked. (laughter) Now to come back to the people, all — the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face, (laughter) I think he had come straight from ...
... blue light modified by the white light of the Mother...¹ A whitish blue like moonlight is known as Krishna's light or Sri Aurobindo's light".² In a letter³ dated August 14, 1945 to Dilip Kumar Roy, who was greatly under Krishna's spell, we have a more explicit personal note: "If you had an unprecedented peace for so long a time, it was due to my persistent inner pressure; I refuse ...
... supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme. As for expressing the supramental inspiration, that is a matter of the future." 60 Then, in 1948, he writes to Dilip Kumar Roy: "Savitri is going slow, confined mainly to revision of what has already been written, and I am as yet unable to take up the completion of Part II and Part III which are not finally revised ...
... epic. Savitri-The Epic of the Spirit (pages 87-123) has been taken from this work. His Evening Talks presents the sessions the disciples used to have with Sri Aurobindo. DILIP KUMAR ROY: The Message of Savitri (pages 124-44) forms an important chapter in the author's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me, one of the few books bearing the stamp of direct contact with the Master. ...
... supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme. As for expressing the supramental inspiration, that is a matter of the future.” In July 1948, in a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy, he avows: “ Savitri is going slow, confined mainly to revision of what has already been written, and I am as yet unable to take up the completion of Part II and Part III which are not finally ...
... . But the Mother has Page 82 seen Debu, Pranab's brother, as having been the latter. So Danton has to be our choice. To me Sri Aurobindo wrote that he had "a psychic memory" of Dilip Kumar Roy as Horace, evidently a carry-over from the time he had been Augustus. The Mother, on one Pranam-occasion, saw two figures behind Dilip. When she described them to Sri Aurobindo he identified them ...
... projection of the Divine Power like a cinematograph. There are various aspects of the Divine and one example is not sufficient to explain all of them. 26 October 1924 Champklal and Dilip Kumar Roy ...
... blow itself away in time. To pursue Yoga seriously is all right, of course. February 1936 ? (Duhamel 16 wrote in an article that he was deeply impressed by the music of Doctor Dilip Kumar Roy, which was the best of all Eastern music he had heard. Overjoyed by such a tribute from one of the greatest living writers of the west Dilipda sent the article to Sri Aurobindo.) Duhamel ...
... to Germany to study Western music. Lectured Page 21 At Cambridge: (standing ) Khitish Chandra Chatterjee and Subhash Chandra Bose; (seated ) Dilip Kumar Roy and C. C. Desai Page 22 at an international conference at Lugano, Switzerland, attended by world celebrities like Bertrand Russell, Remain Rolland, Hermann Hesse ...
... by the qualities that are so prominently present in these stories. THE COMPLIANT PRODIGAL (RAMER SUMATI) SARAT CHANDRA CHATOPADHYAYA TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY DILIP KUMAR ROY IN COLLABORATION WITH JOYCE CHADWICY PRESENTED BY KIREET JOSHI CHARACTERS Shyamlal, a village elder Narayani, his wife Ramlal, his younger step-brother ...
... Pranam is an act of bowing down before the Guru to receive his blessings. × Dilip Kumar Roy and Sahana's musical performances, both of them disciples of the Ashram. ...
... .. He was kind throughout, as to a child, but I could discern enough in his demeanour to conclude that he could be stern and imperious when required.' A notable visitor in January 1924 was Dilip Kumar Roy. Son of the famous poet and dramatist, Dwijendra Lai Roy, Dilip had already made a name for himself as a singer, and with his many talents he could have had a glittering career, but there was a ...
... Supplement and Sir Francis Younghusband, an eminent Englishman with a deep interest in philosophy and mysticism, called it 'the greatest book' to come out in his time. He also wrote in a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy at the Ashram: 'This war has been a terrible catastrophe and we here in London suffered badly ... but bad as it is the calamity has had one good effect; it has turned men's minds to God.... And ...
... to Blake and to writers of the dream-consciousness, his rejection of the intellectual standard is quite applicable. SRI AUROBINDO 101 February 12, 1937 [A letter written to Dilip Kumar Roy.] About your points regarding surrealism: 1) I have answered this in my former letter. If the surrealist dream-experiences are flat, pointless or ugly, it must be because they penetrate ...
... not discouraged. He took a room somewhere, a very dingy, small room full of mosquitoes and perhaps a bed full of bugs, but he didn't mind it at all. So he stayed on, cooking for himself. Then Dilip Kumar Roy came to know about it; that such and such a great poet has come here from Shantiniketan; he had made a name for himself in the outside world at that time. So Dilip-da and somebody else went to ...
... us) being chosen and arranged in the right rhythm. In short, the poetic is welded and fused with the actual, subjective truth with objective reality. The Irish poet, A.E., once wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy that the English language was pitifully ill-equipped to convey spiritual ideas; but Sri Aurobindo could not subscribe to this view: Page 459 ...this seems to me a reasoning ...
... Ibid., pp. 71-72 42. lbid.,p.11 43. Ibid., p .81 44. Ibid., p . 85 45. Letter to Amal Kiran, quoted in D.K. Roy's Anami, p. 275 46. Letter to Dilip Kumar Roy 47. Collected Poems and Plays, Vol. 1 (1942), Publisher's Note. 48. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 306 49. Ibid., p. 48 50. Ibid., p. 75 51. Ibid ...
... country, and be wise at length. On the other hand, Sri Aurobindo was no mere revivalist, or obscurantist, or parrotist of outworn formulas. As he wrote later in the course of a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy, "The traditions of the past are very great in their own place — in the past. But that is no reason why we should go on repeating the past. In the evolution of a spiritual consciousness upon ...
... have greatly contributed to the Bengali literary and cultural life. -Dwijendra Lai Roy (1863-1913), a magistrate who used his pen to write historical dramas and satirical songs. His son Dilip Kumar Roy (1897-1980) was a novelist and a renowned musician. Warm, refined and a gentleman, his extensive correspondence with Sri Aurobindo stands testimony to their relationship. -Sarat Chandra ...
... and Mirra became a fresh start for both of them, although in a truer sense it was but a new phase of their preordained spiritual odyssey on the earth. Sri Aurobindo had realised, as he told Dilip Kumar Roy in 1924, that the transformation of a single individual was not enough; humanity had to ripen too, and be ready for the desired radical change: "For the crux of the difficulty is that even ...
... results it produced. In the meantime there had been fresh accessions to the Ashram community: Vaun and Janet McPheeters from the U.S., Daulat and K. D. Sethna from Bombay, Sahana Devi and Dilip Kumar Roy from Bengal, Miss Maitland from the U.K. and others. Among the old-timers, Nolini was Secretary of the Ashram, silent and efficient as ever, and Amrita was its manager. Pavitra was in charge ...
... occasion of his birthday. Six sadhaks would translate these six poems. Nolini asked me to translate one of them. The five others were Nolini Kanta Gupta himself, Suresh Chakravarty, Anilbaran Roy, Dilip Kumar Roy and Behari Barua. The one I was to translate was “In Horis Aeternum” — a very difficult poem. I had much doubt if I could cope with it. Still, when such a great opportunity had arrived I didn’t ...
... enter the room. "I've come to watch Shobha dance," he said softly smiling. "Go on, Shobha, begin again." Kavi Nishikanto who was among the spectators told me that he was the well-known singer, Dilip Kumar Roy. I bowed to him and once again took up my song. Dilip-da was very pleased with my song and my dance Page 14 and told Ma, "Bravo! Shobha sings very well indeed! It isn't ...
... Aurobindo had confined himself to writing and holding the reins of leadership from behind the scenes, and had not cared to advertise himself or put forward his personality. As he wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy two or three decades later: I was never ardent about fame even in my political days; I preferred to remain behind the curtain, push people without their knowing it, and get things done ...
... Gujarat, and returned in 1923 to stay with Sri Aurobindo till the end, the most steadfast and tender-hearted of his disciples. And now, early in 1924, an unusual visitor to Pondicherry: Dilip Kumar Roy, son of Dwijendralal Roy the Bengali dramatist. A contemporary of Subhas Chandra Bose in college, like him Dilip too thought of Sri Aurobindo as a legendary figure almost, of whom people talked ...
... Sri Aurobindo seems to have held the not unreasonable, if perhaps unorthodox, view that mere literalness or word for word equation was not the ideal to be aimed at, and in fact he once wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy: "A translator is not necessarily bound to the exact word and letter of the original he chooses; he can make his own poem out of it, if he likes, and that is what is very often done." 3 ...
... David-Neel received the impression that Sri Aurobindo had a "perfect familiarity with the philosophies of India and the West', he himself disclaimed any such deep intimacy. As he once wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy: And philosophy! Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never was a philosopher - although I have written philosophy.... I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the yoga ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Five 52 Jail Experiences Dilip Kumar Roy was an eternal sceptic. He had heard stories about levitation, and such other claims by sannyasis. He very much doubted the authenticity of such phenomena. But Sri Aurobindo told him not to dismiss these occurrences out of hand, nor term them as fraud, but to become competent ...
... join in any function or programme outside the Ashram or, later, the Playground activities. On one occasion, long ago, Bula-da entertained a wish to go to witness a dance programme in Dilip-da’s (Dilip Kumar Roy) house (now the Tresor Nursing Home). He went to ask the Mother who was busy on the Meditation Hall stairs. She told him to wait and went upstairs. He waited and waited — the Mother did not come ...
... Upanishadic grade and which the Rishis called the Mantra. There is, however, no doubt that the Mantra is uttered by a contemporary Indian poet writing in English in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram, Dilip Kumar Roy, when he coins that phrase about God's guardianship: His sentinel love broods o'er the universe. A modern English poet who died too young and whose work though published awaits the ...
... for future work for India, I will do so, but I think inner change is necessary before outward action is accepted. Communism is useful for India but it should be based on spiritual lines. ( Dilip Kumar Roy wrote a letter to Sri Aurobindo asking certain questions regarding marriage. These are the answers of Sri Aurobindo conveyed by Mom. ) November 1924 No cut and dry answer can be given ...
... And every feeling a celestial thrill.... Nature shall live to manifest secret God, The Spirit shall take up the human play, This earthly life become the life divine. 77 DILIP KUMAR ROY 73 Ibid., p. 705. 74 Ibid., p. 709. 75 Ibid., p.707 76 Ibid., pp. 705- 06. 77 Ibid., p. 707. 11 Page 144 ...
... for future work for India, I will do so, but I think inner change is necessary before outward action is accepted. Communism is useful for India but it should be based on spiritual lines. (Dilip Kumar Roy wrote a letter to Sri Aurobindo asking certain questions regarding marriage. These are the answers of Sri Aurobindo conveyed by Moni.) No cut and dry answer can be given to such questions as ...
... Sri Aurobindo came to Me Foreword Dilip — I shall call him Dilip, as Dilip Kumar Roy sounds too pompous for so ethereal and lovable a spirit — Dilip has evolved an 'art' of biography all his own. Perhaps the word 'evolved' is somewhat inappropriate here: Dilip hasn't pursued laborious technological processes to arrive at his 'art'; it has just come to him ...
... of Lucknow University and husband of Monika Devi, who under the name Yashodama would become the guru of the English yogi Krishnaprem. Krishaprem, through his encounters and correspondence with Dilip Kumar Roy, one of Sri Aurobindo’s disciples, developed a personal contact with Sri Aurobindo himself. A circle was closed. ...
... research and he was appointed Principal of the College later. He published more than seventy works. He was a disciple of Swami Vishuddhananda Paramahansa. He had a personal relationship with Dilip Kumar Roy and they exchanged letters. He spent the last years of his life in Mata Anandamayi's ashram at Bhadaini on the banks of the Ganges. 67. Barindra Kumar Ghose: Sri Aurobindo's younger brother ...
... About the Francesca-rendering Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The translation is very good - though not Dantesque at all points." His comment on the last canto of Paradiso , as couched in a note to Dilip Kumar Roy, 1.As when he plucked Marsias out of the sheath of his limbs. 2.And came from that martyrdom into this peace. Page 365 ran: "Amal in his translation of Dante has let ...
... the years of his physical embodiment. I recollect a talk with the Mother on this aspect of Sri Aurobindo's existence after he had passed away. An account had come of how on one occasion Dilip Kumar Roy, after he had left the Ashram, had been reading a long poetic composition of his. Indira, his chief disciple, who had many occult powers which had developed during her short stay in Sri Aurobindo's ...
... flat. The lizard is of course welcome. The Mother liked its presence since it serves to keep insects and mosquitoes away. Easygoing though I am, I have not yet come to the grand limit reached by Dilip Kumar Roy who once told me: "If I had to dust my rooms, I would rather commit suicide." In addition to your spick-and-span complex you have assumed the burden of too much discipline in sadhana ...
... how shall we reconcile ourselves to that word which occurs fifteen times before in Savitri and everywhere with a vicious meaning? I believe we have to remember what Sri Aurobindo replied to Dilip Kumar Roy when the latter asked how Rama couid be an Avatar when Valmiki attributes kama (lust) to him. Sri Aurobindo pointed out that an Avatar need not come as a Yogi. Rama was an exemplar of the ...
... Sleeping Lion in the caverned darkness Of the rock-heart of every sentient thing! Give us thy glance, if only for a moment, Of a child up-gazing in its slumbering — or Dilip Kumar Roy with O deep starry secrecy Twinkling in my heart or Sri Aurobindo himself with The dragon tail aglow of the faint night and Swan of the supreme ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) 2 TO DILIP KUMAR ROY The terms "saint" and "saintly" are used very loosely in English, just as "spiritual" and "mystical" are applied to anybody who believes in and thinks about supernormal and supernatural things and experiences. But we must take the English language in hand and chisel the meaning of its great words to represent ...
... " The opening section, written last, got the comment: "It is exceedingly good—one might say, perfect. Dante seems always to inspire you to your best." Sri Aurobindo wrote to Dilip Kumar Roy about this section: "Amal in his translation of Dante has let himself go in the direction of eloquence more than Dante who is too succinct for eloquence and he has used also a mystical turn of ...
... the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, under the guidance of his Gurus, Sethna found his true self and field. He grew in his intellectual, poetic, psychic and spiritual self, like many sadhak-intellectuals: Dilip Kumar Roy, Nirodbaran, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Arjava and others. By the time of his centenary, more than fifty books and innumerable articles of great depth and scholarship will have been published ...
... Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. 1 DILIP KUMAR, ROY Sri Aurobindo Came to me, pp. 85-103 (first published in 1952). 1. Savitri , Cent. Ed, pp. 51-52. Page 196 ...
... the movability may bring back an older and sounder feeling. Page 101 × Certain poems in Bengali by Dilip Kumar Roy: Agni Disha, Agni Bedan, etc.—Ed. × Now called Moon of Two Hemispheres.— Ed. ...
... Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, p. 1 . × From "Lakshmi", a Bengali poem by Dilip Kumar Roy, as translated by Sri Aurobindo. See Translations, volume 5 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO, p. 561 .—Ed. × ...
... and an empyrean']." Perhaps the only thing in favour of "Aurobindonian" as against "Aurobindian" is that it is dated 4.8.1949 while the other is as old as 23.2.1935. I believe it was Dilip Kumar Roy who first used it and we took it up. Possibly our frequent employment of it tilted Sri Aurobindo himself towards it. Or we may say that the introduction of one or the other should depend ...
... nowhere, fell down on the ground, and were collected in a heap by the inmates of the house. Sri Aurobindo himself has described this event of "materialisation" in course of his long interview with Dilip Kumar Roy; the Mother too has narrated this particular event in one of her Class Page 62 Talks to the Ashramites assembled in the "Playground"; and Nolini Kanta Gupta has written about it ...
... May His blessings be with you and guide you to His feet. I enclose His (charn-tulshi). With all blessings, Yours sincerely Sri Krishna Prem Sri Aurobindo's very close disciple Dilip Kumar Roy has written in his book Yogi Sri Krishna Prem: In discussing philosophical and spiritual matters, Krishna Prem has a way of going straight to the very heart of a problem. He always speaks ...
... Before the "Correspondence" began in the early thirties of this century, there was an all-round sense of awe vis-avis Sri Aurobindo who appeared to be so great and so grave! -"too great," as Dilip Kumar Roy has observed, "too great for such as we, is he not? — we asked ourselves almost with a pang." 10 This image of Sri Aurobindo, the image of someone who Page 4 was always grave ...
... also be impossible to explain the poet's success in writing English poetry with extremely meagre external technical equipment." 9 We now come to our last example - last, yes, but not least. Dilip Kumar Roy, a scholar, musician and novelist, came to Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1928. Before, he had scribbled a few so-called poems which were defective in every way. His style, diction and rhythm were all ...
... their joining the Ashram are indicated within brackets: 1. Chunibhai Patel alias Dyuman (1927); 2. K.D. Sethna alias Amal Kiran along with his wife Daulat alias Lalita (1927); 3. Dilip Kumar Roy (1928); 4. Sahana Devi (1928); 5. John Chadwick alias Arjava (1930); 6. Rishabhchand (1931); 7. Margaret Woodrow Wilson alias Nishtha (c.1938); 8. Nirodbaran (1933); 9. Nishikanto (1934); 10 ...
... No reflecting sadhaka, desirous of discovering the truth behind the glittering guises of the appearances, can deny the veracity of what Sri Aurobindo once wrote to his beloved disciple Dilip Kumar Roy as regards the real nature of all human love. This is what he wrote: "... the human feeling is always either based on or strongly Page 194 mixed with ego.... There ...
... difficult to reconcile the two things on the part of many old-day sadhakas and Page 95 sadhikas of whom the vocal and forceful spokesman was no other person than the famous Dilip Kumar Roy who went so far as to write many a letter to Sri Aurobindo pointing out to him the oddity of the situation and asking for some clear explanation. Sri Aurobindo did not mind the tone of the letters ...
... equal rapidity into fluent and facile sovereignty. If you deny that evidence, no evidence will convince you, because you are determined to think otherwise.' Also, in a letter to another disciple, Dilip Kumar Roy, he wrote: 'And philosophy! Let me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher — although I have written philosophy which is another story altogether. I knew precious little ...
... stricture upon Him. What was yoga? 169Book II, Canto X, page 257. 170Dilip Kumar Roy was fairly well known in his time. He was the son of the famous Dinendra Nath, a well-known writer. Dilip Kumar Roy was a singer. Later in life, he established an ashram in Pune, which still exists. He was a close disciple of Sri Aurobindo and was the recipient of a very large number of letters from Sri Aurobindo ...
... When Uma Bose. the talented young musician of Calcutta, whom Gandhiji used to address as "the nightingale of Bengal", died at the premature age of twenty-one years, her loving music-preceptor Dilip Kumar Roy wrote a long letter to his Guru Sri Page 23 Aurobindo, bitterly complaining about the injustice of God who did not allow a flower to bloom and brought all its glorious potentialities ...
... This was done and Nirmal was unable to bite anyone anymore. In a few days this habit disappeared altogether. (84) I heard this story from Purani-ji. Purani-ji was a friend of Dilip Kumar Roy. In those days we, young and old, used to wrestle together. After wrestling we would go to Vidyavrata's place and he gave us Mohan Bhog (an Indian sweet). While we were relishing this sweet, ...
... idea of God but they ridicule it. Why is that ? A: In the age of democracy we can't object to people holding their views particularly because God does not seem to object to their views. Dilip Kumar Roy, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, sent him Anatole France's strictures on God and it evoked a very interesting reply. I reproduce the correspondence in full— (Either God would prevent evil if ...
... to come back to take Taggart with him to heaven. Sri Aurobindo : By that time Taggart may go even otherwise. Page 56 9–2–1924 Mahatma Gandhi had an interview with Dilip Kumar Roy at Poona. The main subject discussed was "art". During the talk Mahatmaji said he was himself an artist, that "asceticism was the highest art". He expressed the view that he had kept the Ashram ...
... place there must be a very solid preparation to hold it. That is a more important work than holding up somebody as the Avatar. 22-2-1926 A letter from Subhas Chandra Bose to Dilip Kumar Roy appeared in the "Pravartak" of Chandernagore. Subhash remarked in it that "though he had great respect for Vivekananda he considers Sri Aurobindo – "gabhir" deeper than the former. In the ...
... , be different, although the occult working and the material working can and do join and the occult power gives to the material working its utmost efficacy . ... " ¹. Condensed from Dilip Kumar Roy, Among the Great (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1950), pp. 320-59. Page 299 Now for ...
... providing for sufficient variety as well as a background unity of aim and effort. During this year the stream of casual visitors continued, but notable among those who met Sri Aurobindo was Dilip Kumar Roy, who was finally told by the Master: "Yours is still a mental seeking: for my Yoga something more is needed." 20 VIII With the coming of 1925, there were two important visitors ...
... for revenge, and he got into touch with a Muslim fakir well versed in black magic. Suddenly mysterious stones began to strike at Sri Aurobindo's house, and as he later described the episode to Dilip Kumar Roy: The phenomenon began at the fall of dusk and continued at first for half an hour, but daily it increased in frequency, violence and the size of the stones, and the duration of the attack ...
... David-Neel, Mme Alexandra 29, 633 Daulatram Sharma 230 Dayanand Saraswati 624 Deshmukh, C.D. 652 Devi Mahatmyam 278, 662 Dhar, Manoranjan 821 Dhammapada 82, 192, 506, 639ff, 668, 836 Dilip Kumar Roy 48, 92, 213, 226, 255, 260ff, 296-7, 358, 370, 372, 430, 503 Diwakar, R.R. 596, 662, 695 Dostoevsky, Fyodor 481 Drouet, Mifaou 621 Duraiswami Iyer 226, 258, 287, 297, 319, 328-9, 426-7, ...
... Vijay Pournaprema (Françoise Morisset) Prasad, Narayan Pujalal Purani, A.B. Reddy, Madhusudan Rishabhchand Rishabhchand and Shyam Sunder Romen Palit Roy, Dilip Kumar Roy, D.K. and Indira Devi Sahana Devi Sarkar, Mona Sastry, Kapali Satprem Sethna, K.D. (Amal Kiran) Sethna, K.D. and Nirodbaran 12 vols. (1977 to 1992) Breath ...
... in Asia that I found the greatest among them - the leader, the hero of tomorrow. He is a Hindu. His name is Aurobindo Ghose.6 There are no qualifications here, and many years later, when Dilip Kumar Roy met him in France and opened up a conversation on Sri Aurobindo, Richard spoke again with the same conviction and vigour of phrasing, and with a more detailed particularity: I have not met ...
... for the spiritual Truth for which we stand to establish itself on earth. Over a year later - when the position had eased somewhat for the Allies - the question was raised again by Dilip Kumar Roy, and Sri Aurobindo took this opportunity to set forth in detail his point of view in a long letter, the full text of Page 708 which has only recently been published. 35 The ...
... Truth as it is without any deception about it. Shaw 1 has got that critical mind to a great extent and we find the same in Anatole France." And here is Sri Aurobindo on Anatole France. Dilip Kumar Roy once sent Sri Aurobindo a quotation from Anatole France's Les Dieux ont soif (The Gods Are Thirsty): "Either God would prevent evil if he could, but could not, or he could but would not, or he ...
... irritably, "Why is he meddling?" Frankly, most Indian politicians were but toys in the hands of the British; Gandhi and Nehru being chief among them. The reason is not far to seek. To quote Dilip Kumar Roy, 1 "[Indians] have been successfully westernized and completely insulated from India's ancient spiritual influences by the modern European outlook on life, as had happened with Pandit Jawaharlal ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 January 1939 To Dilip With my best wishes for your birthday and my affectionate blessings Love and blessings from Sri Aurobindo 22 January 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 January 1941 Dilip, With my best wishes for your birthday and my blessings 22 January 1941 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 April 1940 Dilip, Our love and special blessings will be with you for the singing tonight and the "darshan" on the 24th. 22 April 1940 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother c. February 1941 Dilip, Yes you can go after the "darshan" and we approve your programme and our blessings will go with you. You can send our blessings to H. Love and blessings c. February 1941 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 27 June 1951 My dear child, Here is what I have just heard from our Lord for you: "No fears, no anxiety, no doubts, I am here." With my blessings 27 June 1951 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 24 January 1939 Dilip, We quite agree to your going to A for a short time and you can go with our free consent and blessings. 24 January 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 4 December 1937 Dilip, All right—you can have the old friend Baron (I am glad he is here for a time) and also "le Directeur de l'Instruction Publique" and his wife. Blessings on you and the music! 4 December 1937 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 March 1939 Dilip, Here is A's letter. Once more we assure you that we shall have no objection to your going to Hyderabad for a short time if you decide to do so. Our love and blessings 18 March 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 2 April 1939 Dilip, The Rs. 10 are quite welcomed ... Glad that your work is going on nicely. Our love and blessings are with you. 2 April 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 16 March 1951 To Dilip with blessings Let the divine Grace do the work through you and the work will be thoroughly done. My love 16 March 1951 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 February 1939 Dilip, I was glad to read B's letter; it is beautiful as all his letters are. I have also received one letter from him today. Certainly you can sing tomorrow and my love and blessings will be with you. 22 February 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 12 March 1939 Dilip, It is only tomorrow (Monday) that I can read your letter to Sri Aurobindo and then we shall answer. This is only to tell you that we will surely not ask you to go. Our love and blessings 12 March 1939 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 10 November 1939 Dilip, I have only this to say about the matter. From the point of view of the sadhana it is much more dangerous to go to Tiruvannamalai than to go to Sylhet for giving evidence ... Our love and blessings P.S. You can show this letter to B. 10 November ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 10 November 1940 Dilip, I will speak to B about the repair of the cane chairs. There will be no difficulty. Don't let yourself be worried by people and their ways. You may be sure that our love, blessings and help are always with you. 10 November 1940 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 30 November 1935 (Regarding Dilip's singing at the Government House, Pondicherry) Dilip, Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! It was magnificent and our guests were enchanted. Your Mahakali has been a triumph. 30 November 1935 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother c. January 1941 Dilip, Your programme is all right. We will remember your prayer on your birthday. When you are informed of the time of your broadcast do not forget to let us know; we wish to listen to it here. With our love and blessings c. January 1941 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 February 1951 My dear child You must not be depressed or sad. You know that Sri Aurobindo has not left us and that he will be here tomorrow 4 as usual. With my love and blessings 20 February 1951 × ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 9 February 1939 Dilip, I read your letter to Sri Aurobindo and he has seen your poems. The translation of "The Soul" especially is fine. We give our blessings to the poet and to A's wife and to S. For M blessings are only possible when she has undergone a sincere repentance ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 May 1941 Dilip, Yes, it was altogether right. This experience and the result it brought are a great step towards spiritual freedom. Every rejection of desire and attraction brings one nearer to the Divine. With our love and blessings 18 May 1941 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 27 April 1939 Dilip The translation of Mirabai's song is good. The "with" is possible but perhaps "for" would be better. Blessings are given for the two objects for which you ask them. "It is strange" will do very well for the title. You can, of course, come tomorrow after ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 January 1942 To Dilip. With love and special blessings on the occasion of his birthday. "A few consecrate all of themselves and all they have—soul, life, work, wealth; these are the true children of God." 3 To one of them. 22 January 1942 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 25 May 1941 Dilip, I am sending herewith the four flowers with blessings for S and his daughter, for H and for R. Music follows the rule of all things on earth—unless they are turned to the Divine they cannot be divine. With our love and blessings 25 May 1941 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 January 1937 Dilip, I just opened your letter and read: "Today Mother at pranam was very cold" and stopped there rather amused. No, I was not very cold—I had a cold which is not quite the same, and I was struggling with it. I thought you were aware of it. Anyhow, now that ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 19 November 1935 Dilip, I am sending you the translation of "Mahakali"; it was a very interesting thing to do. Regarding the song of the boy Krishna, I was not really worried—but now you have reassured me altogether. With our blessings 19 November 1935 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 28 April 1951 Dilip, Sri Aurobindo has made our realisation independent from all world circumstances, and he always considered you as part of the realisation; so there is no true ground for depression. I expect you to shake it off, with the help of my love and blessings. ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 2 April 1941 Dilip, We read your letter only today as yesterday there was too much hurry of the first. I am sending the three flowers with blessings. Glad to hear of your good experience in the dream as also of the experience of descent you had the other day. The inner being ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 24 February 1939 Dilip, Sri Aurobindo thinks that it is not possible for us to intervene by a wire in a political matter of this kind. At most you might write to him (S) your private opinion about the best course for him to take in these painful and difficult circumstances. With ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 5 December 1938 Dear Dilip, When you came to the staircase after meditation, I could not tell you anything because there were too many people around. But I wanted to express to you our deep and warm sympathy and also our appreciation of your attitude in this painful affair. Our ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 3 January 1941 Dilip, We were very glad to read your letter of this morning and to hear of this fine experience—for there can be no finer experience than this state of true bhakti. It is a real and great progress that you have made. As for Colonel P and his wife I gather that ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 June 1940 Dilip, Yes, you can come this afternoon on the staircase at 5.45 for pranam and to sign the cheque. I shall give you then some flowers for H and U. I have felt all this time your loyalty and faithfulness and have deeply appreciated your feelings and your attitude ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 25 November 1937 Dilip, I was with you in thought at the time of the music. I hope you are all right now as a beginning not of a few months but of many years of non-depression—depression of the consciousness is worse than dispersion of consciousness, so do be energetic to throw ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 26 November 1937 Dilip, It was a very good prayer and I received it at the time, a good part of it in the very words you had used. I'm also glad to know that you felt something of my answer; it shows that the inner connection is growing and that is a very encouraging sign. Blessings ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 17 April 1935 Dilip, After reading your letter now, just a word to tell you that you are mistaken. I actually missed your presence at pranam and am sorry you did not come. If you had listened inwardly you would have heard me calling you. 17 April 1935 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 22 January 1940 Dilip, Our help and force are with you for the new year of your life. I am sure that with persevering and sincere aspiration the barrier you feel and the internal difficulties will melt away. With our love and blessings P.S. Here are a few candies from France ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 16 December 1938 Dilip, You may be sure that we shall not dismiss you rudely or otherwise. I am sorry you still feel the push to go, but I think you will not find it in you either to leave us permanently or to leave the yoga. Our love and blessings 16 December 1938 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 3 December 1938 Dilip I don't know what has been reported to you. I simply meant that if M sees that you are supporting E in her resolutions to remain here she is likely to yield more easily. I certainly do not want you to quarrel with M, only to use your influence to persuade her ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 30 May 1942 My dear child, You can always be confident of our love and sympathy through everything and in all circumstances. Be sure that we understand fully your difficulties and your will to overcome. Your sincere effort is bound to prevail and, I hope, soon. Believe that when ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 29 December 1931 Dilip, Why do you speak of "the ultimate human disappearance of the Mother"? I have—I assure you—not the least intention of disappearing or vanishing, humanly or otherwise, and those who care to see me with their physical eyes can feel quite at ease on this point ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 3 December 1938 Dilip I am very sorry but in the present circumstances it is impossible for me to see anybody as I must be always free to go to Sri Aurobindo if at any time my presence is required. As for M I have no objection to her staying alone with you. But it is quite impossible ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 August 1932 Dilip, I have felt and been moved by the sincerity of your letter. Do not be too sorry. In a way what has happened was for the best since it has led you to take a firm and decisive resolution which must help you greatly to get rid of this trouble. Be sure of all the ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 8 December 1937 Dilip, That is all right. I approve your answer about going in March. I hope that you will succeed in all the objects which you have enumerated. You will receive our full help for that. Indeed you have much progressed both as to the grumbling and in other directions ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 8 May 1941 Dilip Evidently this world is a bad one but change is its law and as it can hardly be worse than it is now, we may hope that it will soon become better. Old movements obstinately recur and make the sadhana difficult but you have made more progress than you allow yourself ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 January 1935 Dilip, What a beautiful bedcover you have sent me this morning! It is magnificent and has given me twice the pleasure, especially because it is the first time you are giving me a personal present. You may be sure that I am very appreciative of it; I see it as ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 13 March 1939 Dilip, We were very glad indeed to read your letter. We shall certainly give you all the help possible to carry out your resolution and the aspiration behind it. I feel sure that with an earnest and sustained effort you will conquer and effect the opening for which ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 August 1940 Dilip, You are sure to get back the poise, for the progress you have made remains and will come uppermost again. In these days when lots of people come from outside, there is always some restlessness and disturbance brought into the atmosphere and some disturbance ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 18 January 1942 Dilip, Don't allow your mind to worry you too much about the difficulty of surrender, and don't conclude from it that your nature is unfit; surrender is always difficult for everybody, especially surrender of the mind. Keep a quiet will for it and it will come in ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 27 December 1935 Dilip, Just a word to tell you that I am very touched by your decision and I will take this opportunity to rest as you are asking me to do. You may be sure that my force is affectionately with you and will always be there in your effort towards the spiritual ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 2 December 1941 Dilip, We do not think it is necessary for you to go to Calcutta for these records; it is much trouble and effort for what is now a very small return. If at any time you feel like going then you can certainly go with our full blessings. Don't worry about the ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 27 May 1940 Dilip I am not aware of being "better pleased" if you did not go to Madras for the records. I quite approve of your going. For this S the difficulty is always the same, accommodation; if she can stay in the same room as R she can come. For K there is no difficulty ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 27 December 1950 Dilip, Read carefully your letter and understand quite well your point. But I do not see how I can replace you so far as Indira is concerned. She needs you and you alone can give her the help she needs. Of course I am always with you and will still more be with ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 16 February 1940 Dilip, I am quite ready to shower my grace on this A, but I do not consider it advisable for him that he should come here. I don't believe half-a-minute "darshan" can change these habits. We have had bitter experience about them already, that they resist even a ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 9 April 1947 My dear child, I see no good reason why you should leave this place which, after all, has been your home for such a long time ... You speak of a "house-problem" but as I have no intention of giving your house to anybody else, I do not see how your departure can ease ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 8 April 1941 Dilip, Certainly you can come tonight after meditation. I am sending a flower for U with the enclosed written blessings. As for the dream she must not rely upon that, as it is likely to be a mental formation. My force and help are with her but these wordings cannot ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 1 November 1932 Dilip, You can be reassured—it is quite certain that Sri Aurobindo cannot make such a mistake! As he says that you are sure to succeed it means that you will succeed and become quite a good yogi after all. Don't let troubles and difficulties depress you. The greater... greater the difficulties, the greater the victory hereafter. Why did you not come for the pranam? You are mistaken: I did miss you, I said to you again and again: "Dilip, come, come." If you had looked within you would have heard my voice. 1 November 1932 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 6 February 1940 Dilip, What is this strange rumour about our stopping darshan? There is no truth at all in it. We have no intention of vanishing as we do not believe that it can bring in "peace and light" ... As for your sadhana you had developed a true bhakti and an opening ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 1 December 1938 (On 24 November 1938 Sri Aurobindo fell in his room and fractured his right leg. For the next three years, he stopped almost all his correspondence with disciples. During this period the Mother answered Dilip's letters on Sri Aurobindo's behalf as well as her own.)... ) Dilip, I have communicated your letter to Sri Aurobindo. He asks me to say that he is afraid it is not possible; until the doctors declare the knee cured only those who are necessary for attendance and service are admitted. If this rule were not kept there would be many demands on Him and likelihood of pressure and fatigue. So for the present at least it is not possible to say yes. He sends ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 January 1939 Dilip, Nobody sees Sri Aurobindo except the doctors and those who come for personal work and attendance. If you have heard to the contrary it is quite false, so you must put away from your mind the idea you built on it that Sri Aurobindo has no longer any love for ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 8 October 1940 Dilip, Of course you can come up after meditation tonight for pranam and signing the cheque. It is certainly not at all true that I don't care for the sadhaks and their sadhana. Why should the world conditions being bad make me cease to care! It would be rather ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 March 1933 Dilip, (I almost feel inclined to add: big child!) You are quite mistaken. I enjoyed your music very much; indeed it was quite beautiful. But as I am to see you tomorrow, I was keeping the subject for then—as I have some rather interesting details to give which I ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 17 December 1941 Dilip, You should make it a rule never to listen to this voice or accept the suggestions that come with it. It is clear from where it comes; it is a voice of untruth, the voice of the adversary which comes to almost everybody who follows the way of yoga, suggesting ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 20 January 1939 Dilip, Of course it was only an untrue dream. I never thought for a moment of asking you for more money after all you have given with a generosity and loyalty I fully appreciate. As for the departure, it is difficult for me to say anything. It goes without saying ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 15 December 1938 Dilip, You say that I don't love you, this is not at all true—but it is inevitable in the present circumstances that my time and attention should be concentrated on Sri Aurobindo and this is a thing which all those who reverence him must surely find quite natural ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 21 September 1932 Dilip, Without waiting for Sri Aurobindo, I answer your letter at once, because truly I cannot make out what is the matter. ...Nobody is displeased with you, neither Sri Aurobindo nor myself; we did not dream of it a single moment. Before you wrote yesterday ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 1 June 1946 My dear child, I must say that I did not expect such a letter from you. I cannot make out what is the ground of your complaint. Is it because for the last week or so having a bad cold I was obliged to keep a little aloof in order not to pass it on to others? Is it because ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 14 January 1933 Dilip, I am very sorry you did not come yourself with the money, as I would have had an opportunity to tell you that your impression of this morning was Mère imagination and a bad one too. I can assure you that I have been at pranam time exactly as I am every day ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 19 December 1933 Dilip, I am sorry you spoke to V instead of speaking to C as I had suggested. C said and repeated that there is no true objection at all to your going back to the Trésor from this very day if you like. It seems that there had been already a discussion on the subject ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 23 January 1939 Dilip, I have just read your three letters to Sri Aurobindo. He is glad to see that you are beginning to recover from this attack. He is very glad that you have seen how unfounded is the doubt of our love for you and that the ideas of death and suicide are not at ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 17 November 1931 Dilip, For God's sake come back to your common sense. I never said that I would see you no more. Sri Aurobindo asked you only to be patient, and as for the "silent expressionless love" he is not conscious of having written to you anything of the kind. Now... what I said to Sri Aurobindo when I met him today at 1.30. Relating what happened in the morning at pranam, I told him, concerning you: "There is a letter of Dilip to you and I do not know what he writes, but I can assure you that when he (Dilip) came to me this morning, I gave him a good, long blessing and my best smile." You can understand that I felt somewhat astonished when I heard that my best ...
... Letter to One Attracted by the Cloister The Mystical and the Misty: An Answer to Some Queries about Sri Aurobindo Vivekananda and Our Spiritual Future The Mind and Spirit of Our Age: Dilip Kumar Roy's Interviews with Five World-Figures December 22, 1951 January 5, 1952 January 19, 1952 June 30, 1951 March 24, 1951 Page 185 ...
... Dilip Kumar Roy's Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 7 September 1933 Dilip, Why didn't you come yourself with the money? I would have seen you for a few minutes and told you something interesting and helpful as an answer to your letter of this morning. For in speaking it would have been better than anything I could write. At pranam ...
... knowledge of music Page-177 from them. In turn, I would share with them my love for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and their Ashram. If any of them expressed a wish to learn Dilip Kumar Roy's or Sahana-di's songs, I would try and help them with it. But progressively, I came face to face with a little problem. It was, honestly, quite a minor problem but whenever I was confronted by ...
... Sarabhai, a noted industrialist. 20 . Bansidhar was a Gujarati sadhak of the Ashram, younger brother of Champaklal. 21 . Gurudas Library: Publisher of Dwijendralal Roy and Dilip Kumar Roy’s books. 22 . Sajantikanta Das (1900-1962) was a renowned critic who criticised Nazrul, wrote satiric poems and was associated with Probashi, Dainik Bashumati of which he became... e concerts in India and abroad. In the forties she performed in four films, one being “Meera, “ based on the life of Mirabai. She learned Hindi bhajans from Dilipda. 12 . Annadashankar Roy (1904-2002) was a celebrated novelist, poet and essayist of Bengal. He was awarded Padma-bhushan, Rabindra Puraskar and Vidyasagar Puraskar. He was the Founder-President of Paschimbanga Bangla Academy... Ashram in 1950 to return later. 27 . J.N. Chakravarti, a well-known Theosophist, vice-chancellor of Lucknow University and husband of Yashoda Ma, the Guru of Krishnaprem. 28 . Indu Roy, manager of the Hindustan Co-operative Insurance Company at Madras. He started “Advent “, a guarterly dedicated to Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga and his writings. He later continued its publication from the ...
... Feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother . Prithwi Singh's correspondence came out in 1988 as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to Prithwi Singh . Dilip Kumar Roy's correspondence was issued in four volumes in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011 under the title Sri Aurobindo to Dilip . A second source of new material is individual letters and small collections of letters published in Ashram journals and elsewhere after ...
... the Mother . Prithwi Singh's correspondence Page 817 came out in 1988 as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to Prithwi Singh . Dilip Kumar Roy's correspondence was issued in four volumes in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011 under the title Sri Aurobindo to Dilip . A second source of new material is individual letters and small collections of letters published in Ashram journals and elsewhere after ...
... Contacts with The Mother FROM THE MOTHER AND SRI AUROBINDO TO ESHA: LETTERS TO A CHILD [These letters were written by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to Dilip Kumar Roy’s niece, Esha. She was about six or seven years old when she came to the Ashram with her parents - most probably in 1930. Sri Aurobindo wrote to her both in English and Bengali and she was the first ...
... shubhodin . But then I began to feel shy. Moreover I did not have a very musical voice. My sister Tapati had an extremely sweet voice. Dada had a marvellous singing voice. My sister was part of Dilip Kumar Roy’s singing troupe. The Mother would often listen to their singing at the Playground. One day the Mother told Tapati: “You have a lovely voice, indeed.” She had been able to recognise her voice ...
... Feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother . Prithwi Singh's correspondence came out in 1988 as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to Prithwi Singh . Dilip Kumar Roy's correspondence was issued in four volumes in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2011 under the title Sri Aurobindo to Dilip . A second source of new material is individual letters and small collections of Page 519 letters published in Ashram ...
... though the verbal sense is the same, the musical sense is different and has not the suggestion of a profoundly penetrating massive infinity and endlessness. If for instance, that superb line of Dilip Kumar Roy's — His sentinel love broods o'er the universe. is slightly rewritten — Broods o'er the universe His sentinel love, the meaning is unmodified by the inversion ...
... Rishabhchand 20 Robinson, Edwin Arlington 314 Rodogune 47-49,318,341 Rolland, Romain 4,5 Rose of God 42, US, 458 Roy, Dilip Kumar 462 Roy, Dwijendralal 45 Roy, Raja Rammohan 6 Samuel, Viscount 35 Santayana, George 266,372 Sarma,D.S. 33 Sartre, Jean-Paul 268 Sassoon, Siegfried... Fitts, Dudley 394 Friar, Kimon 398,401 Future Poetry, The 42, 293, 344,359,459 Gandhi, M.K. 17,19,25,28,30 Gayley, CM. 374 Ghose, Barindra Kumar 6 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan 6-7 Ghose, Krishnadhan 6 Ghose, Lotika 53 Ghose, Manomohan 6-7 Ghose, Swarnalata 6 Gide, Andre 267-268 Giradoux, Jean 268... 20 Osgood, C.G. 333 Ouspensky 34 Owen, Wilfred 390 Pandit, M.P. 20 Parnell 40 Patanjali 21 Peacock, Ronald 427 Pearce, Roy Harvey 388,394 Perseus the Deliverer 12,47,49,318 Pinto, Vivian de Sola 344 Piper, Ravmond Frank 373 Plato 33,271 Plotinus33,326 ...
... beginning in Dilip kumar Roy's house. An amusing incident took place on Darshan day. Dilip-da left first after getting ready. My father was to go later. Dilip-da was a forgetful, absent-minded person. So, mistakenly, he locked the house as he left. My father, on wanting to go out, discovered that the door was locked. He called out several times for help but nobody was there. Dilip-da was already ...
... passeth all understanding and that is nothing cold, dark or gloomy." 22 (2)Here is a second example of Sri Aurobindo's argumentation: this is taken from Dilip Kumar Roy's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me. Sri Aurobindo is writing to Dilip Kumar with 'stinging sarcasm': "I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. ... of humour, the brilliant passage at arms, the arguments exposing to ridicule the utter hollowness of my unripe reasoning were things beyond my usual mortal fare. With great joy, I used to run to Dilip Roy [another regular correspondent of Sri Aurobindo] to share the sumptuous feast. How we would roar with laughter and enjoy all the thrashings given me for my wooden-headed logic! 19 [At times Sri Aurobindo... Sri Aurobindo's analytical reply as given above, Sarat sent a second communication to his Page 156 Guru, of which a part is as follows: "In your communication to Mrityunjoy, Anil Kumar and myself you have narrated facts in relation to Bejoy's conduct which are staggering. If it had not been from you, I would have scarcely believed them as possible. ... You have rightly guessed that ...
... inscrutably and variably manifold! And my heart leaped up for joy when I perceived that you had performed this feat of love and devotion and surrender at the very beginning of your spiritual life! Dilip Kumar Roy's is not a solitary case, I have seen many others of the same nature—sadhaks sincerely devoted to Sri Aurobindo but Page 40 shrinking from a whole hearted acceptance of... Human unity etc. The Essays on the Gita was added much later in the Arya. Once in reply to Dilip's question whether the descent of the Supermind was his main work, he said, "Yes, I have come for that" This leaves no doubt as to the mission of his life and his being all along conscious of it. When Dilip referred to Sri Krishna, he said that he had realised complete identity with him. We know that ...
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