Summary Before bathing Kudalasangama Deva, Basavanna receives the revered Guru’s Padodaka; before arranging the Lord’s meal, he receives the revered Guru’s Prasada. The relation then enters the intimacy of daily…

Summary Seeing Kudalasangama Deva and joining his hands before Him, Basavanna becomes a Bhakta. Touching and worshipping Him establishes Achara, while holding His greatness within the mind brings the dawn…

Summary Within nirahambhāva, where the independent “I” no longer governs, Dasoha reaches its egoless fulfilment. Basavanna does not know two separate centres—the one who offers and the sacred reality to…

Summary Basavanna begins with impossible actions: water becomes the mortar, shadow the pestle, and formless rice is pounded; the cow of Mount Meru is milked and food is prepared in…

Summary The bliss of intimate affection is absorbed by seeing; the bliss of seeing by meeting; the bliss of meeting by embrace; the bliss of embrace by union; and the…

Summary Basavanna approaches the Supreme Guru enthroned upon the seat of Parusha, the transformative alchemical touchstone. The entire sequence of worship is formed from inward qualities: Supreme Bliss becomes the…

Summary Pinda, embodied formation, stands as the beginning, while knowledge becomes Shunya. Between this beginning and end, the hundred rests upon the One. The One itself stands as the hundred.…

Summary Basavanna no longer knows himself through the calculations of merit and sin or through the promised destinations of heaven and hell. Crying “Hara Hara Mahadeva” and standing as a…

Summary Basavanna describes Kudalasangama Deva through three inseparable expressions: He is established in Pranava; He is recognized through the inherent nature of Pranava; and He is the Samarasa of union…

Summary In the bare open expanse stands a headless elephant. An elephant comes, swallows the elephant, and itself disappears. With that disappearance, the inside remains without interval or separation, and…