Sri Aurobindo

The coming together of Dilip Kumar Roy the seeker and Sri Aurobindo, his guru was a unique relationship. Sri Aurobindo described it as that "which declares itself constantly through many lives. It is a feeling which is never mistaken and gives an impression of the one not only close to one but but part of one's existence. The relation that is so indicated always turns out to be that of those who have been together in the past and were predestined to join again."

Sri Aurobindo showed limitless patience, understanding, love and exquisite tenderness, sparing no effort - even giving up, at times, his much needed sleeping hours to write to his Dilip whom he called a 'friend and a son'. Sri Aurobindo wrote, "I have poured on you my force to develop your powers to make an equal development in the yoga." They discussed in their letters philosophy, literature, humanism, rationalist ideals and materialism and a plethora of topics- in short covering all strands of human aspirations.

Dadaji writes about Sri Aurobindo in the PILGRIMS OF THE STARS:
It was under the illumined aegis of my guru Sri Aurobindo that I first blossomed into a writer of novels, plays, poems and biographies, impelled through it all by my inveterate urge to limn the human greatness that seemed to accost me at every turn. I have never considered this inclination of mine to be mere hero worship, especially as Krishna Himself declares in the Gita :

yad -yad vibhutimat satvam shrimad-urjitam eva va
tat-tat evagaccha tvam mama tejomsha-sambhavam
(10:41)

which means :
Wherever thou findest a flowering of grace,
Glory or opulence that thrills the eye,
Know: they all stem from gleam of My sun-splendor.

From my boyhood days I had heard of him as the great revolutionary who sacrificed everything for the cause of the Motherland, as he called India. When I finally came to know him, however, it was in a different light, for by then he had retired from politics, declining the leadership of his country to pursue a greater vision that progressively revealed itself to him through the practice of yoga. I lived under his beneficent aegis from November, 1928, to his passing in December, 1950, and went through the trials that befall every aspirant who seeks "to make his life a bridge twixt earth and heaven," as we are exhorted in his immortal Savitri. To be with him was to enjoy a foretaste of heaven, and his sudden passing would have left me derelict with grief but for the consolation of my daughter disciple, Indira Devi, who had come to me the previous year. She was a highly gifted mystic and never failed to sustain me with her luminous experiences which Sri Aurobindo fully endorsed, acclaiming her Samadhi, or superconscious trance, as "authentic" and her vision as "beautiful."