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Pages: 256 About the Author Indira Devi Born on 26th March, 1920, to wealth and luxury, in Punjab, Indira Devi was dogged form 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 gong 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 Samadhi. Sri Aurobindo authenticated the experience of Smt. Indira Devi as genuine. A complete collection of her compositions are published in two volumes titled "Indiranjali Vol 1 and Indiranjali Vol II". These established her as one of the foremost composers of mystic poems in Hindi. She was also a classical devotional dancer and accompanied Sri Roy during their world tour as cultural ambassadors in 1953. in the present volume Sri D.K.Roy and Smt. Indira Devi have appraised the place of Sadhus in India's spiritual life with astonishing insight, lucidity and charm. Dilip Kumar Roy Dilip Kumar Roy, born on 22nd January 1879, 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