Summary Basavanna asks what quality can govern the Self after elemental existence has yielded and entered its presence. The body and its elemental functions may continue, but they no longer…

Summary Basavanna tells the mind to recognize how desire, baited by tamas, becomes bondage to repeated becoming. He asks it to leave behind the threefold divisions and their corresponding states.…

Summary Basavanna declares the Atma to be Linga and the Paramatma to be Jangama. Between them, the body becomes Prasada. When inward being, living Divine presence, and embodied life are…

Summary Basavanna asks whether the philosopher’s stone must touch another philosopher’s stone, as iron touches it for transformation. The transforming principle does not itself require a second transformation. Likewise, Anga…

Summary Basavanna declares that Jangama is Linga to him and that Jangama is his very Prana. He then places Jangama-Prasada at the centre of his relation with Kudalasangama Deva: for…

Summary Basavanna stands in complete obedience before Kudalasangama Deva. He cannot answer against what the Lord says, nor can he free himself from his indebtedness to Him. The fixed Linga…

Summary In the presence of the Sharanas established in Aikya, Hari, Brahma, and the hosts of gods acclaim Basavanna and ask where he should be seated. Basavanna refuses every proposed…

Summary Basavanna places both possibilities before Kudalasangama Deva: the Lord may be pleased, or He may not be pleased. In either condition, Basavanna asks to be brought into sameness within…

Summary Speaking in the bridal voice, Basavanna says that Kudalasangama Deva is unlike the husbands ordinarily seen. The Divine beloved does not move about displaying Himself, nor does He adorn…

Summary Basavanna presents three closely connected conditions: the natural arising of Jnana, being taken within the radiance of Linga, and meditation upon Kudalasangama Deva. Before each, he repeats the same…