Summary In this vachana, Basavanna compares outer adornment without love to sacred marks without Shiva’s grace. A woman may bathe in turmeric and wear ornaments, yet without the love of…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna speaks from the pressure of bodily survival. From sunrise to sunset, the burning belly demands attention. There is no opening even to remember Kudalasangama Deva.…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna speaks directly to the mind and warns it against remembered taste, backward pull, and scattered longing. Do not keep recalling sweetness like the monkey that…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna compares his own condition to a Mailara figure that appears striking from the outside but is filled with straw within. The outer color may be…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses the instability of his mind before Kudalasangama Deva. The mind is like the Othi, the colored tree-lizard, changing its hue according to where it…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses the condition of one born into an inherited religious direction. He refers to the Uduvu, the gripping lizard once used to climb high walls.…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna speaks from the burden of sustaining life on earth. To feed the body, he is driven into worldly transactions, like one who smears fruit to…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses that he did not understand how a small greed destroyed a vast gain. The loss is not only worldly. Not knowing the kula, the…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna asks what fruit can come from reading, hearing, or doing. These acts may be religiously proper, but they remain without fulfillment if Kudalasangama Deva’s people…

Summary In this vachana, Basavanna confesses the failure of practice to remain firm within. For many days, he has listened and performed Linga-archane. Yet his bhakti has become like something…