Summary
Basavanna asks why he should call anyone his own merely because that person stands within Ādi, Veda, Shastra, or Samaya. Scriptural, doctrinal, or inherited affiliation does not by itself establish true belonging.
Those whom he might call “mine” remain far from Kudalasangama Deva. Their actual direction contradicts the name of kinship placed upon them.
Basavanna therefore rejects the claim that they are his own and seals the declaration with an oath before Kudalasangama. True belonging is determined by nearness to the Lord, not by inherited or verbal association.
Imagery & Symbolic Relevance
Ādi, Veda, Shastra, and Samaya form the opening sequence. They represent recognized grounds through which people may claim religious identity, authority, teaching, or affiliation.
Basavanna does not allow any of these grounds to determine whom he should call his own. The repeated question—“Why should I call them mine?”—removes automatic kinship based upon tradition or designation.
The repetition gives the refusal firmness. It shows that the word “mine” cannot be used merely because a person belongs to an accepted teaching, scripture, system, or religious community.
Distance from Kudalasangama is the central spatial image. A person may appear near through common language or inherited affiliation, yet remain spiritually far from the Lord.
The following question turns from naming to movement. Calling someone “mine” does not change the direction in which that person actually walks. Conduct and orientation reveal belonging more truthfully than an assigned name.
The declaration “They are not mine” resolves the earlier questions. Basavanna withdraws the language of kinship where nearness to Kudalasangama is absent.
The final oath gives the statement its seriousness. He does not make a casual distinction or temporary judgment; he places his conviction before Kudalasangama Deva Himself.
The movement is from recognized religious affiliation, to repeated questioning of possessive kinship, to the exposure of spiritual distance, and finally to an oath-bound refusal of false belonging.
Lingayoga
In Lingayoga, spiritual kinship is established through actual orientation to Linga.
Familiarity with scripture, doctrine, or religious identity cannot replace nearness expressed through conduct and inward direction. The practitioner must therefore distinguish inherited affiliation from living Linga-relation.
The word “mine” must not be allowed to override this discernment. True fellowship rests with those whose movement remains directed toward Kudalasangama Deva.
Editorial Commentary
The four opening terms are not individually condemned as texts or traditions. Basavanna rejects them as sufficient proof that a person truly belongs to him. The decisive measure is whether that person’s actual movement is near to or far from Kudalasangama Deva.
Related Vachana
Supporting Vachana
Sharana Sthala Vachana 712 — The Only Good
Sharana Vachana 712 refuses those who are not Kudalasangama Deva’s own, even when they are known and honoured by the whole world. Basavanna chooses the Lord’s Sharanas over public recognition and allows neither pressure nor fear of Divine anger to weaken that belonging.
This prepares Vachana 713 directly. Vachana 712 establishes that worldly acceptance cannot make someone spiritually near. Vachana 713 extends the same discernment to religious affiliation: Ādi, Veda, Shastra, and Samaya cannot make a person “mine” while that person remains far from Kudalasangama.
What is first expressed in Sharana as refusal of worldly reputation deepens in Aikya into the rejection of every inherited or doctrinal claim that lacks living nearness to the Lord.
Advancing Vachana
Aikya Sthala Vachana 714 — The True Kinship
Vachana 713 rejects false belonging. Those who are called “mine” through religious or inherited association cannot be accepted as such when their actual movement remains far from Kudalasangama Deva.
Vachana 714 gives the positive measure of kinship. It asks what worth brothers, family, and lineage possess when they are not joined with the Linga. Those who remain outside that relation cannot become one’s true spiritual kindred merely through blood or ancestry.
The continuation is exact: Vachana 713 removes the unsupported word “mine”; Vachana 714 establishes true kinship through shared relation to Linga. False affiliation gives way to belonging grounded in Kudalasangama Deva.
