Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c8.51

c8.51

But the wise Kambalāmbara-pāda says in a song,—"I have filled my boat of compassion with gold (of void) and have left silver (of all false appearances) with the world."³ Kāmali (Kambalāmbara-pāda) is steering on towards the sky (void),—if once birth can be totally annihilated how can it recur again? I have (says Kambala) pulled the peg up and torn the rope of the boat,—and Kāmali is steering forward seeking at every step the instructions of the wise preceptor."⁴ Here the peg symbolises the impure principles of the active mind (*ābhāsa-doṣāṇi*—com.) and the rope is made of the thread of book-knowledge (*vidyā-sūtram*—com.). Thus, to proceed forward with the heart of universal compassion, the Yogin must first uproot all the principles of defilement in his mind and tear off the rope of scriptural knowledge. It has been