Summary Basavanna asks whether the shell opens its mouth to all three hundred and sixty stars. It does not. It opens only to Swati. The image shows that rare transformation…

Summary Basavanna contrasts guarding the body with guarding the mind. The body may be watched, restrained, or protected from outside, but the mind cannot be guarded in the same way.…

Summary Basavanna says that those who do not know the cause or source of Achara and Shivachara take refuge in their own separate positions. The six doctrines each claim refuge…

Summary Basavanna says that hunger, thirst, sleep, and sense-objects have been forgotten, and that Kudalasangama Deva is the cause. He then says that desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, and envy…

Summary Basavanna says that once the body is known as belonging to Kudalasangama Deva, no separate body remains for him. Once the mind is known as belonging to the Lord,…

Summary Basavanna asks whether one becomes a Bhakta by offering artha, prana, and abhimana. He answers directly: no. Even serious offerings do not by themselves establish true devotion if the…

Summary Basavanna denies the three central claims of spiritual selfhood: “I act,” “I give,” and “I seek.” He says he is not the one who acts, not the one who…

Summary Basavanna says that because he did not know how to worship Guru, Linga, and Jangama in earlier births, he was brought into many births. The burden of repeated becoming…

Summary Basavanna begins with the weight of accumulated action, piled like a mountain. Before him stands the net of sin or bondage, already spread. The seeker is not shown as…

Summary Basavanna separates spoken expression from direct realization. What has been spoken belongs to those who speak. Words may point, name, or explain, but they do not by themselves attain…