Summary Basavanna has grasped awareness and known awareness, yet he is free from the delusion that awareness itself is Kudalasangama Deva. He has encountered forgetfulness and forgotten forgetfulness, but he…

Summary Awareness becomes hidden within forgetting, and forgetting within awareness. Yet the claim, “I remain without distinction,” gives rise to boastfulness. Brahman swallows Brahman, but another boast follows: “I myself…

Summary Basavanna worships the Knower: he offers worship, performs pūjā, sings, and praises. Through this complete devotional turning, ordinary knowing comes to an end and forgetfulness is destroyed. Bhāva becomes…

Summary An awareness that cannot be contained by ordinary knowing takes hold. A truth that cannot be fully known and cannot be forgotten stands established. Name disappears, and fixed measure…

Summary Basavanna says that the declaration “I have known” cannot contain the Linga, for it is beyond the reach of knowing. The claims “I have remembered” and “I have contemplated”…

Summary Through repeated knowing, Basavanna’s eyes become auspicious. The delusion that what is one remains divided disappears, together with the turmoil of “I want” and “I do not want.” Seeing…

Summary Basavanna describes a search obstructed like feet entangled by a creeper. The object of longing finally comes within reach, and after many days it is found. In exultation, he…

Summary The qualities belonging to Anga have worn away, and the separately experienced taste of bhakti has ebbed. Linga has completely enveloped Anga. Basavanna can no longer determine what to…

Summary Basavanna says that through the forgetfulness of what had gone before, he came into this bhava, this embodied becoming. Through Kudalasangama Deva’s līlā and the ordering thread of His…

Summary Basavanna places the entire experience of seeking food under Kudalasangama Deva’s action. When the Lord is gracious, He may make Basavanna go from place to place begging. When he…