Miracles Do Still Happen

Language: EnglishPages: 624About the AuthorDilip Kumar Roy - Born on 22nd January 1897, in a rich and aristocratic Brahmin family of Bengal, was considered a cultural leader of the artistic renaissance in India during the early twentieth century. Educated in Cambridge, England (for mathematics Tirpos) Sri Roy with the encouragement of Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Roland, changed over to the study of Western Classical music to enrich his own heritage of Indian music. A friend also of Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russel, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and very close disciple of Sri Aurobindo, who called him a 'born yogi’, and his "son, friend and part of his existence", Sri Roy was an accomplished musician, composer and a litterateur par excellence. He has written about 125 books in Bengali and 25 books in English. But his grande passion has always been Sri Ramakrishna's dictum: "To realize God is the aim of human life."Dilip Kumar Roy passed away on January 6, 1980 at the age of 83.Indira Devi - Born on 26th March 1920, to wealth and luxury, in Punjab, Indira Devi was dogged from her infancy, by a deep, unaccountable other worldliness - like a devouring flame - which increased with her age, until she felt compelled to dedicate herself exclusively to spiritual life and so accepted Sri Dilip Kumar Roy as her spiritual father. Soon after she got initiation from her Guru she started going into 'Bhav Samadhi' and a new vista of spiritual world was opened before her eyes. Under the aegis of her Guru, Sri Roy, she developed into a remarkable poet in a short span of time. Besides composing beautiful English and Urdu devotional songs, she began to hear Bhajans from the legendary saint Meera Bai in her Sam