Summary The mind becomes the sacred ablution, the body becomes the throne, and remembrance becomes the casket that bears the Linga. In this condition, there is neither a separate act…

Summary When the mind has merged into Maha, the Great Reality, it is delusion to imagine that embodied life can still move as an independent existence. True realization must be…

Summary Like the maruga plant whose fragrance arises with its very birth, true spiritual quality is natural rather than borrowed. What is merely acquired falls away under Hara’s prompting. A…

Summary During the Great Dissolution, earth subsides into water, water into fire, fire into air, and air into space. Alongside this elemental return, Brahma subsides into Vishnu, Vishnu into Rudra,…

Summary The forms of Mahalinga are not realities apart from Mahalinga. Linga is not one thing while its manifestation is another; it is not separate from the conjunction of body,…

Summary One must act and yet remain as though one has not acted. Within the action, the separate self must not stand as its author. Likewise, one must remember Kudalasangama…

Summary The Sharana does not live by holding to Māyā; he lives holding to Ghanalinga. He does not partake under the rule of viṣaya, the objects of desire; through Ghanalinga,…

Summary Basavanna asks what significance “the three” can retain before that supreme Form. He then directs the vision beyond even Sanaka, Sanandana, and the other ancient sages. The movement is…

Summary Gently and without self-assertion, Basavanna passes through the conditions of Bhakta, Maheshwara, Prasadi, Pranalingi, Sharana, and Aikya. None is presented as a title seized through personal achievement. Each condition…

Summary Basavanna speaks of leaving behind the separate distinctions of Yogānga, Bhogānga, and Jñānānga. He stands beyond Bhaktiyoga and Vairāgyayoga after their movement has been fulfilled. The Sharanas walk, speak,…