Summary Where Linga is present, slander cannot remain; where slander remains, Linga is not established. Basavanna then asks what such Lingavantas are like and how they abide. The answer comes…

Summary Basavanna asks whether, once the sukha offered into Linga has become absorbed in Linga, the Sharana can still speak of physically depositing the Anga in Linga. Prana may be…

Summary Basavanna asks who revealed to him that Linga is Jangama and Jangama is Linga. Worship of the Linga by itself had not ended bhava, the continuing formation of separate…

Summary Basavanna asks: if the world has arisen within the profound depth of the Linga, what can be greater than that Linga? He then gives the reciprocal recognition: the world…

Summary Basavanna asks three rhetorical questions about one wholly enamoured of the Divine. What attachment to the body can remain for one who loves the Formless? What need for self-regard…

Summary Form abided within the Formless, and the Formless apprehended the True Form. In the certainty of True Form, Nishpatti—consummated fulfilment—arose. Basavanna then turns from description to questioning. Can the…

Summary Basavanna speaks of leaving behind the separate distinctions of Yogānga, Bhogānga, and Jñānānga. He stands beyond Bhaktiyoga and Vairāgyayoga after their movement has been fulfilled. The Sharanas walk, speak,…

Summary Gently and without self-assertion, Basavanna passes through the conditions of Bhakta, Maheshwara, Prasadi, Pranalingi, Sharana, and Aikya. None is presented as a title seized through personal achievement. Each condition…

Summary Basavanna asks what significance “the three” can retain before that supreme Form. He then directs the vision beyond even Sanaka, Sanandana, and the other ancient sages. The movement is…

Summary The Sharana does not live by holding to Māyā; he lives holding to Ghanalinga. He does not partake under the rule of viṣaya, the objects of desire; through Ghanalinga,…