Summary
In this vachana, Basavanna describes the condition of Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharana. In the heart there is longing to reach Him. In the eyes there is longing to behold Him. On the tongue there is longing to speak of Him.
The whole being is gathered into one movement. Feeling, seeing, and speech no longer wander in separate directions.
The vachana teaches that true devotion becomes natural when the heart, eyes, and tongue are all turned toward Kudalasangama Deva. This is the state of His Sharana.
Imagery & Symbolic Relevance
The heart is the first image. It represents inner longing, intention, and the movement of love toward Kudalasangama Deva.
The eyes form the second image. They represent the desire for direct sight. The Sharana does not merely think of the Divine; he longs to behold.
The tongue is the third image. It represents expression. Speech itself becomes shaped by devotion.
Together, heart, eyes, and tongue show the integration of the inner person. Longing is not confined to emotion alone. It enters perception and speech.
The phrase “such is the state of your Sharana” is important. Basavanna is not describing occasional devotion, but a transformed condition in which longing has become the natural state of being.
Lingayoga
In Lingayoga, the faculties must be gathered toward the Linga. The heart must long, the eyes must seek direct seeing, and the tongue must speak from remembrance.
This vachana shows devotion moving from chosen practice into continuous orientation. The seeker no longer forces remembrance from outside; remembrance flows through the faculties themselves.
Longing here is not weakness. It is the fire that keeps awareness awake and undistracted. It prevents the seeker from falling back into ordinary scattering.
The Sharana lives with heart, sight, and speech drawn toward Kudalasangama Deva. This is longing as inner discipline and grace.
Editorial Commentary
This vachana should be read as a teaching on integrated longing. Basavanna shows the Sharana as one whose heart, eyes, and tongue have all turned toward Kudalasangama Deva.
The teaching is direct: true longing gathers the whole being into remembrance.
Related Vachana
Supporting Vachana
Vachana 694 — Fiery Vigilance
Vachana 694 teaches unbroken remembrance of Kudalasangama Deva through waking, dream, and deep sleep. Vachana 757 continues this movement by showing that such remembrance has become longing in the heart, vision in the eyes, and speech on the tongue.
Advancing Vachana
Maheshwara Vachana 891 — When the Act Turns Against Itself
Vachana 757 shows longing as the living condition of the Sharana. Maheshwara Vachana 891 advances this into the living proof, where longing must become visible in realized life. What is inwardly gathered here as heart, sight, and speech becomes, in the next movement, the proof of devotion lived before Kudalasangama Deva.
