Summary For thirty-six years, Kalyana was the dwelling place of Bhakti. For twenty-seven years, it became Shiva-sadana, the sacred abode of Anubhava. Basavanna now sees that neither the former Anubhava…

Summary Is not one day of Linga-puja greater than entering caves and practising austerity for endless time? Is not one day of service at the Guru’s feet greater than performing…

Summary The realised elders behold Mahadeviyakka’s womanly Anga and recognise her. They behold the childlike innocence and transparency of her being and recognise her again. The Lingavantas perceive the deeper…

Summary Basavanna says that he is not one who repeatedly troubles the Lord by asking for one thing after another. He has already followed behind, asking and longing, and has…

Summary Basavanna asks that no defiling claim be made that Kudalasangama Deva once gave the Linga to his Guru Animiṣa. Nor should the mind construct a particular moment when Animiṣa…

Summary The true Bhakta bears Rudrakshi upon the hands, arms, chest, neck, ears, and head. The sacred sign thus encompasses the whole embodied person. Basavanna asks us to behold such…

Summary Basavanna presents four sacred ornaments whose authority is greater than the bodily faculties upon which they are worn. The bracelet governs the hand: it can give but cannot receive…

Summary Basavanna considers a succession of celebrated Divine and spiritual figures: Hari, Brahma, Buddha, Jina, Ganapati, and Bhairava. Each is recalled through a particular story, condition, bodily sign, or distinguishing…

Summary Basavanna rebukes the one who defines Ganapati, Bhairava, and Shanmukha merely as the children born of Hara and Shakti. Such a statement confines the Divine within lineage and inherited…

Summary Sangayya Deva reduces eight to four, four to two, and two to one. He then removes even that final one as a separately countable remainder. The same Sangayya Deva…