Summary Form abided within the Formless, and the Formless apprehended the True Form. In the certainty of True Form, Nishpatti—consummated fulfilment—arose. Basavanna then turns from description to questioning. Can the…

Summary Basavanna asks three rhetorical questions about one wholly enamoured of the Divine. What attachment to the body can remain for one who loves the Formless? What need for self-regard…

Summary Basavanna asks: if the world has arisen within the profound depth of the Linga, what can be greater than that Linga? He then gives the reciprocal recognition: the world…

Summary Basavanna asks who revealed to him that Linga is Jangama and Jangama is Linga. Worship of the Linga by itself had not ended bhava, the continuing formation of separate…

Summary Basavanna asks whether, once the sukha offered into Linga has become absorbed in Linga, the Sharana can still speak of physically depositing the Anga in Linga. Prana may be…

Summary Where Linga is present, slander cannot remain; where slander remains, Linga is not established. Basavanna then asks what such Lingavantas are like and how they abide. The answer comes…

Summary When it is known that Linga is Anga and Anga is Linga, the Reality is there itself. When it is known that Linga is Prana and Prana is Linga,…

Summary Basavanna declares that all worlds and their beings are the children of Chennayya. Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, ancient sages, celestial beings, perfected beings, the great orders of deities, inward beings,…

Summary Others may burn away outward things without bringing worldly attachment to rest. Basavanna’s transformation occurs elsewhere: the eyes of his heart have become rooted in the Linga. From that…

Summary When a forest cuckoo enters a house, can it cease remembering its forest? When a mountain elephant enters a house, can it cease remembering its mountain? In the same…