Summary In this vachana, Basavanna asks what the proper way is to abandon other gods. He answers through clear restraints: one should not speak of another deity, should not look…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna cries to Kudalasangama Deva as an infant cries for its mother. The image is one of complete dependence, helplessness, and trust. He asks the Lord…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses that his faults cannot be counted. He sees error in walking, speaking, doing, giving, knowing, and forgetting. This is not despair. It is a…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses that he has ruined himself again and again. The specific fault he names is not worldly failure, but failure to receive Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharanas…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses the incompleteness of his own devotion. He compares his bhakti to the wood-apple fruit: rough and hard outside, but hollow within. He worships Kudalasangama…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna compares his mind to a monkey. It runs after the small pleasures of the body, is caught in vain delusion, and leaps in many directions…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna speaks of the seriousness of devotion and vow. A shattered pot cannot simply become a vessel again. In the same way, one who has broken…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna describes the rhythm of seeing and longing. When he beholds Kudalasangama Deva, there is great joy. When he does not behold, there is inward distress.…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna lists an immense feast of sweetness: jaggery, grapes, sugar, delicacies, sweet cakes, rare mangoes, endless bananas, choice seeds, jackfruit, milk preparations, and rich offerings without…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna asks whether one who cannot hear will know the source of a repeated call. However often the call is made, the one who cannot hear…