Although the pronoun “he” is used, signifying that Solomon’s longing was what theology terms “spiritual” and consequently impersonal, meaning God The Absolute, yet we suggest that the use of the masculine pronoun may be due entirely to the translators and commentators (of whom there have been many), and that, in their zeal to reconcile the song with the ecclesiastical ideas of spirituality, the gender of the pronoun has been changed.  We submit that the idea is more than possible, and indeed in view of the avowed predilections of the ancient king and sage, it is highly probable.

He sings: 

  “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth
  For his love is better than wine.”

Again he cries: 

“Behold thou art fair my love, behold thou art fair, thou hast dove’s eyes.”

The realization of mukti, i.e., the power of the atman to transcend the physical, is thus expressed by Solomon, clearly indicating that he had found liberation: 

“My beloved spoke and said unto me, ’Rise up my love my fair one, and come away.  For lo, the winter is passed, the rain is over and gone.

“’The flowers appear upon the earth; the time of singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.

“’The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vine with the tender grapes gives a goodly smell.  Arise my love, my fair one, and come away.’”

It is assumed that these lines do not refer to a personal hegira, but rather to the act of withdrawing the Self from the things of the outer life, and fixing it in contemplation upon the larger life, the supra-conscious life, but there is no reason to doubt that they may refer to a longing to commune with the beautiful and tender things of nature.

Another point to be noted is that in the spring and early summer it is with difficulty that the mind can be made to remain fixed upon the petty details of everyday business life.  The awakening of the earth from the long cold sleep of winter is typical of the awakening of the mind from its hypnotisms of external consciousness.

Instinctively, there arises a realization of the divinity of creative activity, and the mind soars up to the higher vibrations and awakes to the real purpose of life, more or less fully, according to individual development.

This has given rise to the assumption, predicated by some writers on cosmic consciousness, that this state of consciousness is attained in the early summer months, and the instances cited would seem to corroborate this assumption.

But, as a poet has sung, “it is always summer in the soul,” so there is no specific time, nor age, in which individual cosmic consciousness may be attained.