Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c8.17

c8.17

In another song of Bhusuka-pāda the mind has been compared to a deer. The song goes thus:—"Near whom and with whom are you living and in what way!—a clamour is rising around from all the four quarters. The deer has become the enemy of all because of his own flesh. I see, the hunters do not leave Bhusuka (who is like unto the fickle deer) even for a moment. The deer does not touch the grass nor does it drink water; the abode of the doe is not known to the deer. The doe says to the deer, hearest me, thou deer, leave this forest and become mad. While running in haste the hoofs of the deer are not seen,—Bhusuka says,—it does not enter into the heart of the ignorant."¹