Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c8.19

c8.19

Here the deer represents the mind; due to the principles of defilement it is always surrounded by the hunters who are the miseries of life. As the deer is the enemy of all because of its own flesh, so also the citta itself is the cause of all its miseries; for, it itself constructs the world of miseries through its own activities. But when the deer citta is troubled thus amidst the miseries of life, then comes the doe,² or the goddess Nairātmā (essencelessness or perfect vacuity) to his help and she takes him away from this world beset on all sides with the hunters.