Summary Basavanna enters through the enclosure of the northern gate with assurance and proceeds through the radiant abode of the Western Door. Upon the Shunya-Simhasana of the threefold way—Guru, Linga,…

Summary The vachana speaks of the Divine living within Basavanna and spreading through his presence into the community around him. Though this indwelling Sangayya remains unseen, society tries to separate…

Summary Prabhudeva overturns Basavanna’s fixed order of perception. He removes the distinction between womb and mouth, makes the eye function as the head and the head as the eye, turns…

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold a great harvest that has grown without being sown and fragrance arising before the flower. Through these reversals, he points to the Reality that…

Summary The world may frighten, intimidate, entice through affection, gather in apparent companionship, deceive, speak with hidden intention, exhaust, test, praise, abandon, arrive uninvited, and bring sorrow, delusion, or attachment.…

Summary Basavanna refuses to confine Kudalasangama Deva within the names Brahma, Narayana, Jina, Bhairava, or their paired forms. When Veerabhadra strikes and poison burns, conceptual distinctions collapse. What remains is…

Summary Seeing devotion become a fever that drives people toward the difficult outward ascent to Kailāsa, Basavanna’s mind feels deeply ashamed. Kailāsa, he says, is only a mound upon the…

Summary Basavanna calls everyone to the wedding named Bhakti-rati. An oleander blossom becomes the wedding ring, jasmine forms the ceremonial curtain, chrysanthemums raise the canopy, and every variety of flower…

Summary Basavanna refuses the company of the Bhavi because that association leads again into endless bhava—repeated becoming and birth. He also refuses the worship of another deity because divided devotion…

Summary The Bhēruṇḍa bird has two heads but only one body. Even if a partition is placed between the heads, milk given to one and poison to the other enter…