Summary The Sharana is capable of making Bayalu—the open, unbounded Formless—take form. The Linganubhavi is capable of returning that manifested form to Bayalu. Basavanna tests both designations through direct questions.…

Summary Basavanna announces that he will tell the news concerning Jivatma and Antaratma. He then presents three unnamed figures. One remains waiting within a false chain. Another fashions stories and…

Summary Basavanna asks what fruit comes from worshipping Linga if Samarati, Samakale, and Samasukha have not been known. He repeats the question and gives the measure of fulfilled worship: one…

Summary At the touch of the sacred ash, Brahma’s kapāla is struck open, Gananatha’s fifty-two strands fall torn, and the three breasts of the egg-born maiden are severed. Nadapriya then…

Summary Basavanna begins with Satya-Shuddha, truth-purity, and declares that where it is complete, Guru, Linga, Jangama, Prasada, and Ganahood no longer stand as separate categories. He then presents the extensive…

Summary Basavanna describes worship in which the hand swallows the water, the shikhe swallows the leaf, and the mantra becomes divided. The acts of worship are present, but they have…

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharana, who is not governed by dying and being born and is not stained by doubt. Form and formlessness stand together in…

Summary Within the joy of Linga-contact, Basavanna no longer knows the ten directions, earth, or sky. Even the sacred formulation, “All the world is within the Linga,” no longer remains…

Summary After the Anubhava of the Self-Linga has come to him, Basavanna asks what remains of the distinction between Devaloka and Martyaloka. The final question places the movement under Divine…

Summary Basavanna repeatedly asks, “What is this?” He wonders how one became two, how two became one, and what this uninterrupted fullness is. He supplies no explanatory doctrine. The complete…