| Temples & Legends of Bengal |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
THE TEMPLES IN BIRBHUM |
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prepared to plunge herself headlong into a sea of abuse but should be quite indifferent
both to pleasure and pain. The poet himself knew that he was playing with fire. To indulge
freely in love and at the same time to guard her against sexual vice is difficult of
attainment. In a poem he mentions: "To be a true lover, one must be able to make a frog dance in the mouth of a snake" (which means the lover, while playing with dangerous passion, nay, while apparently running even to the very mouth of destruction, must posses the self- control to return unhurt). "This love may be attained by one who can suspend the highest peak of Mount Sumeru in the air with a thread, or bind an elephant with a gossamer."7 Chandidas is one the great exponents of Parakiya Rasa and
Sahajiya cult which through his poems and through his love for a washerwoman, Rami,
extolled that it was not in an ordinary man's power to control the surging passions of
love and remain pure; but he expounds that salvation through this type of love may be
attained. 7 History of Bengali Language and Literature by Dr. D.C. Sen, 1954, p.45. |
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