Summary Basavanna shows that each person is governed by what he holds as most valuable. Those with wealth fear the king, because worldly authority can threaten worldly possession. Those with…

Summary Basavanna names three inward forces that can obscure realization: poverty, delusion, and desire. These are not presented as external enemies. They arise within the mind and cover what has…

Summary Basavanna declares that if Kudalasangama Deva is gracious to him, worldly judgment no longer matters. Let people call him mad. Let stones be cast. Let every hand turn against…

Summary Basavanna acknowledges that whatever purification, correction, and worthiness have arisen in him came through Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharanas. He does not claim independent attainment. The Sharanas purified him, corrected him,…

Summary Basavanna asks what name can be given to the joy that arises on seeing Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharanas. He then rejects the known categories of liberation—Sālōkya, Sāmīpya, Sārūpya, and Sāyujya—as…

Summary Basavanna confesses that he did not know how to perform Dasoha and did not know how to live Bhakti. When he examined himself, he found no inner substance worthy…

Summary Basavanna mourns the departure of Kinnari Bommayya as the loss of a living Sharana-presence. This is not ordinary personal grief alone. Bommayya is remembered through images of reflection, light,…

Summary Basavanna questions a realization that remains only inward. If Advaita is known within, but does not become Dasoha outwardly, then the knowing remains divided. The vachana does not reject…

Summary This vachana gives a direct instruction to the embodied seeker: do not tremble, do not run, and do not go after what pulls attention away. Basavanna addresses the body…

Summary Basavanna tests the claim that Anga and Linga have entered mutual union. If one says that Linga has joined the body and the body has joined the Linga, he…