PUNARMILNA O RASODGĀRA.
Reunion and the Flow of Nectar.
6. Rādhā has learnt at last that service is self-realisation and self-expression.
The 'boat on the river' goes back to the old Buddhist idea of a raft or boat wherein to cross the samsāra, the sea of this world, to reach the further shore; just as in the carol 'Come over the burn, Besse,'
'The burne is this world blind.'
Rādhā feels that Krishna, whom she had thought her equal, is indeed beyond her ken; but the poet answers, 'That art thou,' proclaiming their Unity.
7. 'I know the beings of the past, the present and the future, O Arjuna: but no one knoweth Me.'—Bhagavad Gītā VII, 26.
Like the last, this throws a light upon the whole wreath of songs; for the soul perceives that she has had ears to hear and eyes to see ever since she came to birth, yet she has neither heard nor seen; and now she cannot have enough of hearing and seeing.
13. Lit. 'I have known—and seen not one.'
The poet leaves the lovers in each other's arms.
BIRDS, FLOWERS AND TREES.
The following birds, flowers and trees are mentioned in the text in the connection indicated: