Summary Basavanna repeats “at every step” three times. Each step is a sacred station, a Divine field, and the place where treasure and its abiding ground are found together. Sacredness…

Summary Basavanna presents four conditions that do not reverse. Clay that has become a pot does not return to unformed clay; butter clarified into ghee does not become butter again;…

Summary Basavanna asks where lagna and vighna remain before Kudalasangama Deva—where joining or auspicious conjunction remains, and where obstruction remains. He then asks where fault and durita, wrongdoing or affliction,…

Summary Basavanna asks us to recognize the sacred condition of Kudalasangama’s Sharana. When the Sharana sleeps, it is japa; when he rises and sits, it is Shivaratri; when he walks,…

Summary Basavanna declares that Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharanas cannot be compared with anything. They are upamātīta—beyond likeness, analogy, and comparative measure. They are free from the binding authority of time and…

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharana: one who is not born into bhava, is not polluted by doubt, and cannot be confined either to form or to…

Summary Basavanna identifies a distinct transforming power in each sacred figure. For Brahma, speech is paruṣa; for Vishnu, the eye is paruṣa; and for Rudra, the hand is paruṣa. For…

Summary Basavanna questions the greatness of each apparent support. The ocean rests upon the earth; the earth rests upon the jewelled hood of Nagendra; Nagendra becomes the ring upon Parvati’s…

Summary Basavanna presents a continuous maturation of Linga-siddhi. By holding Achara-Linga, Anubhava-Linga is attained; by holding Anubhava-Linga, Marga-Kriya-Linga is attained; through Marga-Kriya-Linga, the kriya that has crossed beyond the earlier…

Summary Basavanna declares one earth for both the Holageri and the Shiva temple, and one water for both bodily cleansing and ritual achamana. The divisions of sacred and unsacred, socially…