Summary Shiva is the one who appears, and Shiva Himself is the one who hides. He takes form before the eyes, yet before the mind He remains elusive, troubling it…

Summary Basavanna gathers ten sacred relations and observances into one complete field: Guru, Linga, Jangama, Padodaka, Prasada, Vibhuti, Rudrakshi, Panchakshari, Gana-vrata–Nema, and Achara–Shila. When these become complete within relationship, inwardly…

Summary Basavanna addresses Kudalasangama Deva as Deva of Devas and Mahaprasada and asks Him to receive his supplication. The Lord’s sacred feet extend beyond the seven lower worlds, and His…

Summary Basavanna addresses Kudalasangama Deva as Deva of Devas and Mahaprasada and asks Him to hear his supplication. The Lord caused him to be born amid the bustle of bodily…

Summary Basavanna addresses Kudalasangama Deva as Deva of Devas and Mahaprasada. He asks whether he possesses any independent freedom apart from what the Lord’s sacred feet direct. He compares this…

Summary Basavanna addresses Kudalasangama Deva as Deva of Devas and Mahaprasada. As the Lord has directed, he abides joined to the sacred feet without difference or separation. If he has…

Summary Basavanna presents three realities regarded as unsurpassable within their respective powers:sandalwood in its natural fragrance;Parusha, the alchemical touchstone, in its power of transformation;Amrutha, the deathless nectar, in its power…

Summary Basavanna begins with the two-syllabled expressions Deha, Jiva, and Hamsa and moves progressively inward through them. At the brow-centre of the eye of knowledge, Hamsa is divided into two…

Summary The claim, “I performed this through wealth and sacred giving,” fails before the offering reaches fulfilment. Basavanna then presents five forms of Parusha—transforming contact through the hand, sight, speech,…

Summary Basavanna presents a complete progression of surrender: when wealth is exhausted, he offers the body; when the body is exhausted, the mind; when the mind is exhausted, Bhava; and…