Summary Basavanna refuses to confine Kudalasangama Deva within the names Brahma, Narayana, Jina, Bhairava, or their paired forms. When Veerabhadra strikes and poison burns, conceptual distinctions collapse. What remains is…

Summary The world may frighten, intimidate, entice through affection, gather in apparent companionship, deceive, speak with hidden intention, exhaust, test, praise, abandon, arrive uninvited, and bring sorrow, delusion, or attachment.…

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold a great harvest that has grown without being sown and fragrance arising before the flower. Through these reversals, he points to the Reality that…

Summary Prabhudeva overturns Basavanna’s fixed order of perception. He removes the distinction between womb and mouth, makes the eye function as the head and the head as the eye, turns…

Summary The vachana speaks of the Divine living within Basavanna and spreading through his presence into the community around him. Though this indwelling Sangayya remains unseen, society tries to separate…

Summary Basavanna enters through the enclosure of the northern gate with assurance and proceeds through the radiant abode of the Western Door. Upon the Shunya-Simhasana of the threefold way—Guru, Linga,…

Summary In the bare open expanse stands a headless elephant. An elephant comes, swallows the elephant, and itself disappears. With that disappearance, the inside remains without interval or separation, and…

Summary Basavanna describes Kudalasangama Deva through three inseparable expressions: He is established in Pranava; He is recognized through the inherent nature of Pranava; and He is the Samarasa of union…

Summary Basavanna no longer knows himself through the calculations of merit and sin or through the promised destinations of heaven and hell. Crying “Hara Hara Mahadeva” and standing as a…

Summary Pinda, embodied formation, stands as the beginning, while knowledge becomes Shunya. Between this beginning and end, the hundred rests upon the One. The One itself stands as the hundred.…