Poetic Rendering

Where the Linga is present, can caste exist?
Where the Jangama dwells, can clan remain?
Where Prasada is shared, can impurity abide?
Only the pollution of false speech defiles.
O Koodalasangama, for Your Sharanas,
the path of Anga-Linga-Jangama is the supreme truth
in this, there is no ‘mine’ or ‘thine’.

This vachana presents the ultimate spiritual solvent that dissolves all man-made distinctions and dualities. Basavanna identifies a sacred trinity Linga, Jangama, Prasada whose very presence annihilates the concepts of caste, clan, and ritual impurity. He establishes that true defilement comes not from external contact but from internal falsehood. The vachana culminates by pointing to the Anga-Linga-Jangama path as the framework where this non-dual consciousness is systematically realized, leading to a state beyond all possessiveness and separation.

Spiritual Context

Core Spiritual Principle: Trikaia Suddhi – Purification through the Triune Principle. Spiritual purity is not an individual achievement but a state induced by immersion in the field of the sacred triad. Where these three converge the consciousness of God (Linga), the movement of grace (Jangama), and the sharing of its substance (Prasada)the contaminants of separative identity cannot survive.

Cosmic Reality Perspective: From the non-dual view, Shiva (absolute) and Shakti (dynamic energy) are one. Caste and clan are fractures within Shakti’s play, illusions of separation. The Linga is Shiva-consciousness; the Jangama is Shakti in benevolent, guiding motion; Prasada is Shakti as nourishing substance. Engaging with this complete circuit restores the perception of non-dual wholeness, healing the fractures.

Historical Reality (Anubhava Mantapa Context): This was the constitutional charter for the Linga yoga community. It provided the theological authority to override every societal purity law. If a Jangama (like Allama Prabhu) entered a space, or if Prasad a was shared, caste rules were legally and spiritually suspended. It made the community a living sanctuary of non-duality, where social karma was actively dissolved by spiritual practice.

Interpretation

The three rhetorical questions are not sequential but simultaneous: the presence of one implies the others, creating a unified field. “Caste” is the illusion of hierarchical separation; “clan” is the illusion of tribal separation. Both are negated in the field of divine unity. “Impurity” is the illusion of transactional contamination, negated by the free flow of grace. “False speech” is identified as the only real pollutant because it is a direct manifestation of internal duality and division, actively creating the very separations the trinity seeks to heal.

Practical Implications: Spiritual practice must be relational and communal, involving all three elements. Isolated worship of the Linga is insufficient; it must be coupled with receptivity to living wisdom (Jangama) and participatory sharing (Prasada). Truthfulness becomes the supreme ethical imperative, as it maintains the integrity of this sacred circuit.

The Cosmic Reality

Anga (Human Dimension): The individual and collective psyche burdened with the “software” of caste and clan. Its purification occurs not by scrubbing itself, but by being “plugged into” the higher-voltage circuit of the Triad, which burns out the old programming.

Linga (Divine Principle): The foundational, non-dual truth. It is the absolute standard that renders relative hierarchies meaningless. Its “presence” is the awakening to this truth.

Jangama (Dynamic Interaction): The Jangama is the agent of application. It is the principle that dwells takes up residence in a community or heart, actively organizing reality around the Linga’s truth and facilitating the sharing of Prasada. It is grace made operational.

Shata Sthala

Primary Sthala: Aikya. The endpoint described is pure Aikya: a state of consciousness where “no ‘mine’ or ‘thine'” exists. This is the fruit of the Triad’s perfect work.

Supporting Sthala: Prasadi. The mechanism for reaching Aikya is Prasadi the stage defined by receiving and sharing grace. The vachana explains how grace works: through the trinity of Linga (source), Jangama (channel), and Prasada (manifestation).

Practical Integration

Arivu (Awareness Practices): Cultivate the awareness that in any moment of true devotion, receiving teaching, or sharing a meal with spiritual intent, you are within the purifying field of the Triad. Consciously acknowledge this to amplify its effect.

Achara (Personal Discipline): Let your discipline be radical truthfulness (satya), ensuring your “speech” does not recreate the divisions the Triad dissolves. Actively seek the company of Jangamas (wise beings) and participate in the sharing of Prasada (communal meals, knowledge).

Kayaka (Sacred Action): Perform your work as an offering that strengthens the community’s ability to host the Jangama and share Prasada. See your labor as maintaining the infrastructure of this sacred field.

Dasoha (Communal Offering): Institutionalize the sharing of Prasada material, intellectual, spiritual as the central act of community life. Ensure this sharing explicitly ignores and thus obliterates lines of caste, class, or clan. Protect the community as a zone where the Triad’s law supersedes societal law.

Modern Application

Our world is defined by fractal identity politics, ideological clans, and digital tribalism. New “purities” and “impurities” are constantly manufactured (political, cultural, moral). We live in echo chambers (clans) and judge by labels (castes), with truth sacrificed at the altar of partisan falsehood.

This vachana liberates by providing a transcendent framework to bypass the endless cycle of division. It says: Before engaging in identity conflict, first establish the field of the sacred Triad. Seek the unifying divine principle (Linga), follow those who bridge divides (Jangama), and freely share resources and respect (Prasada). In this field, the energy fueling conflict dissipates. It reframes the fight for justice from dismantling hierarchies to building sanctuaries of conscious unity.

Essence

Build your house where three lights burn:

The truth that knows no high or low,

The love that walks where all may go,

The gift that asks not whence you came.

In their combined and holy flame,

The walls you thought were stone and name

Are seen as smoke, and blown apart.

There, only one speech stains the heart:

The lie that says, “We are not one.”

Deny that lie, and all is done.

This vachana describes a spiritual unified field theory. Caste, clan, and impurity are like separate forces (electromagnetism, weak/strong nuclear force) governing the “particle physics” of societal interaction. The Linga-Jangama-Prasada triad is the sought-after “Theory of Everything” the gravitational field of divine consciousness that, when activated, unifies and simplifies all other forces, rendering them locally irrelevant. Within its event horizon, only one law applies: the law of non-dual truth.

Trying to clean a stained window pane by piecemeal scraping (social reform) is hard. This vachana says: instead, focus the full, clear light of the sun (the Triad) through the glass. The stains, which were only visible because they blocked light, become invisible in the overwhelming brightness. Be in the light, and the shadows lose their power.

We are exhausted by division and longing for a genuine experience of unity and belonging. This vachana states that this unity is not a distant ideal but an active, available force a sacred ecosystem comprised of Truth, Movement, and Nourishment. We don’t have to create unity from scratch; we have to step into the field where it is already the ruling principle. Our task is not to fix the broken world, but to inhabit the unbroken one that already exists within and between us when we align with this Triad.

Shatasthala