According to his reminiscences, Dilip Kumar Roy was introduced to Swami Brahmananda by Dr. Pratap Chandra Majumdar, his maternal grandfather, in the house of Balaram Bose in Baghbazar. Dilip was a young, educated man of wealth inherited from his father, the great Dwijendralal Roy. He was planning to leave for Britain to pursue higher studies. Dr. Pratap was concerned that Dilip, with his vow of not marrying, would fall prey to one of the many foreign ladies with a lot of attractive power to trap young, good-looking Indians like Dilip. Dr. Majumdar was intimately associated with Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa. In fact, his name appears in several places in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Kathamrita - Bengali). He was treated Sri Ramakrishna when the latter was terminally ill as a cancer patient. He had extremely high regard for Sri Ramakrishna and his son in spirit, Swami Brahmananda or Rakhal Maharaj, as he was popularly known. Pratap expressed his fears candidly to Rakhal Maharaj, who asked Dilip to sing a song. The latter sang the famous devotional song, "Mojlo amar mon bhramara," a favorite of Sri Ramakrishna, that enraptured Swami Brahmananda. In that exalted state, he blessed Dilip and told Pratap that he could see that an invisible divine aura as a shield protected Dilip. There was no need to be concerned about him as his path was decided. With that, he blessed Dilip wholeheartedly. Years later, Dilip Kumar Roy narrated this event to his friend Subhas Chandra Bose. Subhas confided in Dilip that even what Swami Brahmananda did to him in Varanasi sevashrama could be equated to bestowing grace or Krupa. Neither Subhas nor Dilip Kumar Roy elaborated on this term. It appears that Swami Brahmananda deputed Subhas Chandra Bose to work for the country. What else passed between them is completely unknown. Perhaps the encounter was too sacred for Subhas Chandra Bose to reveal in detail, even in his book The Indian Pilgrim, where he was extremely reticent about the overall experience and what was discussed between them. But he only opened up a little about it in private conversations, like one he had with Narendra Narayan in Alipore jail. Again, with reference to Swami Brahmananda, he touched upon the word "Krupa." He further mentioned that great men, with their mere touch or even look, could alter the path of life, and that happened to him in that chance encounter with Swami Brahmananda.
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