Vachana 950 — All Elements, All Knowledge, Within the Primordial Linga

Summary Basavanna places earth, water, fire, air, space, and the other elemental conditions within the Paramatma-Linga, the primordial support. That Linga is inaccessible to measurement: its beginning, middle, and end…

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Vachana 951 — The Fixed Abode of Mahalinga

Summary Basavanna declares that the stations of Mahalinga are nothing other than the names of Mahalinga. Linga is not a separate form or definition, nor a separate entity established through…

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Vachana 954 — Beyond Veda, Beyond Measure, Beyond All Categories

Summary Basavanna names Kudalasangama Deva through a sequence of transcendence: beyond Veda, free from sixfold varṇa, beyond the thirty-six kalās, and beyond vyoma. Scripture, classification, numerical structure, and even the…

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Vachana 955 — The Self-Luminous Beyond All Acts

Summary Basavanna names Kudalasangamayya through a succession of victory-titles: conqueror of the world, Danu, heaven, Sūtrāma, human beings, fertile earth, horses, and cattle—yet Himself unconquered. He is self-aware, beyond Veda…

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Vachana 956 — The Great Light Within All Lights

Summary Basavanna passes through a succession of exalted Purusha-designations: the thousand-headed Adipurusha, Veda-Purusha, Tripad-Urdhva, Udanmukha, Udaya-Purusha, Virat-Purusha, Adi-Purusha, and Viyat-Purusha. He then asks us to see the radiance beyond these…

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Vachana 957 — The Causeless Source Beyond All Origins

Summary Basavanna recounts the genealogy of the eight-bodied manifestation called Linga: from Ādi comes Atīta; from Atīta, space; from space, air; from air, fire; from fire, water; from water, earth.…

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Vachana 958 — Dissolved in the Great Light

Summary Basavanna says that he has become ghana in relation to Ghana. He then speaks of being within the light of the Great Light called Kudalasangama Deva. Yet the very…

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Vachana 959 — Where Day and Night Dissolve in the Throne of Light

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold the condition in which all darkness and dimness have been removed. Light becomes the throne for light, and light joins light. The nature of…

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Vachana 960 — Inner and Outer, Self and World: One Alone

Summary Basavanna declares that inner, outer, and Atma-sanga are one. Kudalasangama Deva is the primordial support beyond Nada and Bindu. The joy of the attained meeting is known only to…

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Vachana 967 — The Dissolution of Impulse in the Seeing of the True Consort

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold Chennabasavanna’s condition. When the distortions of Anga fall away, the sanga of the Sati becomes known. When bodily qualities cease, the Nirdeha-Prasadi is revealed;…