Summary Basavanna places before us a lamb brought for a festival offering. The lamb grazes on the tender leaves tied for the ceremonial arch, unaware of what is about to…

Summary Basavanna asks whether Devaloka and Martyaloka are truly separate realms. He then asks whether, within this very world, there is again some other endless world to be sought. These…

Summary Basavanna gives three images of return. The serpent bends toward its hole. The river bends toward the ocean. In the same way, the Sharana of Kudalasangama bends only toward…

Summary Basavanna says that the Linga can be seen in the mirror of the devotee’s face. The devotee’s face is no longer merely personal expression; it becomes a clear field…

Summary Basavanna asks again and again: “What is Bhakti?” He does not define it through doctrine, speech, display, or self-claim. He points to lives in which devotion was done, lived,…

Summary Basavanna questions the worth of life measured only by duration. What is gained by living five days, four days, three days, or two days if the living remains only…

Summary Basavanna asks what human life becomes when Shiva-thought and Shiva-knowledge are absent. Mere birth, grouping, movement, or social arrangement do not make life spiritually awakened. He first compares such…

Summary Basavanna looks at the movement of life in its smallest measure: a moment, half a moment, the time it takes for the eye to close and open. What appears…

Summary Basavanna corrects two common assumptions: that Shiva is pleased by sound, and that Shiva is pleased by Veda. He does not reject sound or scripture, but refuses to make…

Summary Basavanna addresses those who look into the mirror and tells them to look at the Jangama. The movement is from reflected seeing to living seeing. He then gives the…