When I was young, a teenager, 15 or 16 years old, a magazine declared a prize for the best poem. I was young, energetic and enthusiastic, so I sent in a poem, “Ekti Katha Ekti Sur.”17 Hundreds of poems they got. They were partial: first prize, Nishikanta; second prize, Dilip Roy; and third prize went to Chinmoy Kumar Ghose. I came third.
One evening I went to see Nishikanta read out forty or fifty poems. It was arranged by my cousin, Pushpita. Nishikanta was very kind, and he appreciated my poems.
This is something very significant. When Nishikanta’s days were numbered, he had only one desire – he wanted the Ashram Mother to stand on his chest. In this way he would die with the Mother’s blessings. He came to the Meditation Hall to see the Mother. She came and placed one foot, then the other foot. A few days or a month later, Nishikanta died.
10 March 2007
Aspiration-Ground, New York
Dilip Roy, the famous Indian lyrical singer, lived in the Ashram from 1928 to 1953; Sri Aurobindo called Dilip his dearest son. In Sri Chinmoy’s book dedicated to Dilip Roy, entitled My Dilip-Da-Adoration<em> (New York: Agni Press, 2007), he refers to “Dilip Kumar Roy, the Golden Voice,” as one of his “heroes,” and relates several stories illustrating Dilip’s kindness in encouraging the young Chinmoy in his poetic endeavours. Chinmoy was regularly invited to hear Dilip sing at Saturday evening soirees at Dilip’s house on Perumal Koil Street, on the same block where the Ghose family lived. Dilip’s house was called Trésor House. The building eventually became the Trésor Nursing Home, where some of Sri Chinmoy’s family members received care over the years.<p>↩
Sri Chinmoy, The Garden of Love-Light, Part 1,<em> No. 43. New York: Agni Press, 1974.<p>↩
From:Sri Chinmoy,Concern: A Reality of the Heart, Agni Press, 2025
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