Summary Basavanna calls to Shiva not to move away. He makes clear that he is not pursuing the Lord in order to beg for a gift. His fulfilment is to…

Summary Basavanna names those considered eminent in study, the Veda, the Shastra, the Purana, religious appearance, and language. Although their attainments differ, they share one failure: they use them to…

Summary Basavanna describes a vision centred in the Karasthala. When this seeing fills the eyes, bodily distortion no longer governs perception. Anubhava stands beyond the furthest reach of the mind,…

Summary Basavanna calls for direct seeing. The eyes become inward vision through which one beholds coming and abiding, what is beyond, this world and the beyond, and the Great Reality…

Summary Basavanna asks Chennabasavanna to behold the state of Marulashankaradeva in Kudalasangama Deva. In him, there is no darkness in the eyes, no Maya in the body, and no ego…

Summary Basavanna recalls a time when he did not understand the inward meaning of the various bodily locations, contacts, and acts through which the Linga is borne and beheld. After…

Summary Basavanna names three situations in which death appears certain, yet survival remains possible: confinement, a sword raised over the head, and shipwreck in the middle of the sea. Even…

Summary Basavanna compares the revelation before him to the light of a lamp that has consumed darkness, clear water unstained by mud, and a tongue that has directly known sweetness.…

Summary Basavanna presents a mysterious vision: seventy-two cities upon the head of a kappe, a woman within those cities, and a tender coconut shoot in her hand. These images may…

Summary Basavanna beholds Kudalasangama Deva in the recognizable form of Shiva: four-armed, adorned with young serpents as earrings, bearing the shining trident, and riding the bull. The Lord does not…