Summary The hidden truth of the Self becomes clear. With that recognition, the body no longer appears as a separate identity standing apart from the Divine. Awareness settles in the…

Summary The Sharana has directly known the true nature of the Self and recognized the Linga as Paramatma, the Supreme Self. Once this separation disappears, worship is no longer an…

Summary Basavanna describes a state in which the divisions that previously governed spiritual life no longer stand apart. Achara and Anachara, boundary and boundlessness, cease to appear as separate fields.…

Summary Basavanna describes three aspects of spiritual life becoming firmly established within him. The joy of Achara, right conduct, is established in the Anga, the embodied person. Anubhava, direct spiritual…

Summary Basavanna removes the two ordinary ways of describing Reality. It cannot be called something that perishes, but neither can it be described merely as something that remains. It stands…

Summary Basavanna asks the seeker not to abandon the Eightfold Worship and become occupied with arguments about Saguna and Nirguna, or gross and subtle. These distinctions help describe different ways…

Summary Basavanna asks the reader not to confine truth within the two fixed conclusions, “It is not” and “It is.” The vachana is not promoting indecision. It points to the…

Summary Offering does not leave Basavanna with a feeling of loss. Its joy remains full, and within that joy everything becomes offered. Once the offering is complete, the doubt that…

Summary Basavanna asks what can truly be called an offering. Offering ordinarily assumes three separate realities: a devotee who gives, something that is given, and God who receives it. Basavanna…

Summary The vachana describes Chenna Basavanna’s complete inward vigilance. His attention has itself become an offering to Kudalasangama Deva. Because it is fully centred in the Divine, it is not…