Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c8.69

c8.69

The theory of the four Śūnyas was accepted both in the Dohās and the Caryā-padas. In a Dohā of Kṛṣṇācārya it has been said that in the abode of Mahā sukha there are four stalks and four leaves.¹ Here the four leaves are the four Śūnyas, and the four stalks are the four sources.² Sarva-śūnya is said to be the effulgent principle,—there is no higher truth than this.³ It is the abode of Avadhūtī (i.e., the damsel of the nature of perfect bliss), it is the abode of the Jinas.⁴