Summary Basavanna recalls a time when he did not understand the inward meaning of the various bodily locations, contacts, and acts through which the Linga is borne and beheld. After…

Summary Basavanna asks Chennabasavanna to behold the state of Marulashankaradeva in Kudalasangama Deva. In him, there is no darkness in the eyes, no Maya in the body, and no ego…

Summary Basavanna calls for direct seeing. The eyes become inward vision through which one beholds coming and abiding, what is beyond, this world and the beyond, and the Great Reality…

Summary Basavanna describes a vision centred in the Karasthala. When this seeing fills the eyes, bodily distortion no longer governs perception. Anubhava stands beyond the furthest reach of the mind,…

Summary Basavanna names those considered eminent in study, the Veda, the Shastra, the Purana, religious appearance, and language. Although their attainments differ, they share one failure: they use them to…

Summary Basavanna calls to Shiva not to move away. He makes clear that he is not pursuing the Lord in order to beg for a gift. His fulfilment is to…

Summary Basavanna asks us first to behold the Bhakta who is no longer defined or confined by the body. He then asks us to behold the Jangama who is free…

Summary Basavanna begins with intimate trust. He trusted the companion who remained beside him and believed in the virtuous hand that held his own. Yet pain arises in that very…

Summary Basavanna describes Prabhudeva through three images of an essence concealed within a visible form: the inner potency of the castor seed, rasa within flowing sap, and nectar arising from…

Summary Basavanna begins by asking how the state before him can be compared or described. It does not display itself directly, yet its incomparable nature is revealed through the Guru.…