Summary Basavanna beholds Kudalasangama Deva as the light within light—the great radiance before which the exclamation “Shiva! Shiva!” arises. The Lord is the supreme refuge itself, not merely one who…

Summary At the culminating point of Sunāda, Bindu, and the Pranava-mantra, the resonance is “Soham, Soham”—“I am That.” The questioning movement of Koham—“Who am I?”—falls away. Within the Brahmarandhra, no…

Summary Basavanna names earth, water, fire, air, and space—the five elements through which embodied existence appears. Yet Kudalasangama Deva, addressed as Niranjana, cannot be fully known through these elemental forms.…

Summary Basavanna compares his relation with Kudalasangama Deva to contact with a serpent and to the moth’s consuming nearness to flame. Both images convey an encounter in which ordinary distance…

Summary Basavanna declares that deception within the mind is itself worship of another Linga. Even when outward worship appears correctly directed, hidden division creates a second inward allegiance. He rejects…

Summary Basavanna declares that the two sides called Sthavara and Jangama are one. Whether the sacred relation is encountered through the fixed form or the living, moving presence, the satisfaction…

Summary Basavanna identifies three marks of the realized condition. One transformed through Linga is not subject to Anga-vikāra; one transformed through Jangama is not subject to dhana-vikāra; and one transformed…

Summary Basavanna praises Madara Chennayya through the repeated word chenna—beautiful, good, and right. His conduct is beautiful, his speech is beautiful, and wherever he is seen, his presence is beautiful.…

Summary Basavanna begins with two irreversible conditions. Can an animal that has been struck down take even one more step? Can the joy that has entered and touched the body…

Summary Basavanna asks what it matters in which bhava the Sharanas trusted Shiva, how the great ones who trusted Shiva appeared, or how those of noble conduct lived. He extends…