Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c2.77

c2.77

[What the ‘Man of the Heart’ and love towards him really signify—difference with the Vaiṣṇava conception of love—the conception of the ‘Man of the Heart’ really represents a mixture of the conceptions of the ultimate truth in the Sahajiyā schools and in Sūfi-ism—the Sahajiyā element in the man of the heart—the Upaniṣadic background—the conception of the Divinity in Sūfi-ism—creation proceeds from love—the cosmos is supported in love—self-realisation of God through self-manifestation in creation—as creation has reached perfection in man, he is the best medium for the self-realisation of God—the dual nature of man as the finite and the infinite—as human and divine—the love of the Sūfis is the love between the human personality and the divine personality of man—love brings about union between the two—separated in love and again to be united in love—imagery of the lover and the beloved—love is the only religious method—the Sūfis and the Bāuls—the ‘unknown bird’—the ‘unknown’ to be searched and realised within—divine beauty to be realised through the medium of the human form—love-union really means self-realisation.]