Summary Basavanna expresses the defining humility of Sharana Sthala by placing himself among the realized Sharanas as nothing more than a blade of grass in a field of nourishing grain.…

Summary Basavanna speaks from the unbearable intensity of nearness once it has been tasted. The more he beholds Kudalasangama Deva, the more he sees his life dissolving into Him. Without…

Summary Basavanna addresses the mind directly. The mind has forgotten the hardship of birth, the vulnerability and burden that belong to embodied existence. The remedy is given in three commands.…

Summary Basavanna gives a severe image of embodied fragility. A sack of fiber is stitched together and filled with water. Such a container cannot be trusted as lasting or secure.…

Summary Basavanna says that he came into the mortal world for a purpose. His coming was not treated as accidental or meaningless; it belonged to a sacred unfolding before Kudalasangama…

Summary Basavanna begins with questions of entrapment: where am I caught, and in what snare have I become trapped? The questions do not blame another. They turn inward. He then…

Summary Basavanna begins with complete confession. All his conduct is Anachara; all his speech is Avichara. He claims no purity in either living or word. Yet the vachana does not…

Summary Basavanna speaks of the Sharanas whom he trusts and loves. When they come and stand before his eyes, he does not keep them outside as honoured visitors. He breaks…

Summary Basavanna begins with trust, belief, and survival through grace. He does not say that he lived through strength, merit, or self-effort. He says he lived only through the grace…

Summary Basavanna confesses that he failed in the very field of meditation. For dhyana, the proper weapon is silence. But not knowing how to wield that weapon, he grasped instead…