Summary In this vachana, Basavanna presents Guru and Jangama as healers of the disease of becoming. The Guru’s instruction is like medicine. It enters to heal what has become diseased…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna asks what value remains when the essential power of a thing is broken. If the lion’s spine is broken, what strength remains in the lion?…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna says that Māri and the cremation-ground are not somewhere far away. He asks, “What is Māri?” When the eyes go astray and see wrongly, that…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna questions those who divide people by the name Bhakta. A Bhakta is one who has taken up or adapted to Lingayoga. But that name should…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna warns the seeker not to leap among many branches. The seeker should not live only for the body, nor give himself to worldly people and…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna asks why a Sharana should hold the imagined distinction of Ashtami and Navami. Such mistaken observance misses the available opportunity and becomes distant from the…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna gives a social image. A woman has her proper husband or companion before her, yet her eyes turn toward another. Seeing this, Basavanna is astonished.…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna warns that words themselves can become harmful when they are not joined with realization. Hearing words, the small goat is killed; seeing this, it must…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna lists many objects treated as gods: pot-god, tree-god, street-stone god, banana-cluster god, twig-god, measuring-vessel god, and others. He says that with gods named everywhere, there…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna speaks of those who tie a precious ornament made in the form of the deity Marikavve around their own neck, but when debt arises, they…