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.