Summary
Basavanna repeatedly beholds the conduct of a Sharana who is not governed by contact and restraint and who does not know the fluctuation of coming and going. What he sees leaves him astonished.
The Sharana’s condition is neither restless movement nor forced suppression. Established in Kudalasangama Deva, he remains naturally at ease.
The vachana therefore presents realization through lived conduct. Basavanna does not explain the Sharana through doctrine; he sees how the Sharana lives and stands in wonder.
Imagery & Symbolic Relevance
This vachana contains no material comparison. Its movement is formed through the Sharana’s condition, repeated seeing, astonishment, and final abidance in Kudalasangama Deva.
The opening expression places the Sharana beyond the opposed movements of contact and restraint. He is not continually drawn toward what touches him and then forced into resistance against it.
This does not mean that the Sharana is physically untouched by life or incapable of response. His conduct is no longer governed by attraction and obstruction as competing inward forces.
The next expression says that he does not know “coming and going.” Arrival and departure, arising and passing, gain and loss, or changing circumstances do not determine his inward standing.
The Sharana continues to live and act, but he does not construct his identity from what comes or disappears.
The word charitra directs attention toward lived conduct. Basavanna does not examine an abstract state or repeat a doctrine about the Sharana. He observes the way the Sharana actually lives.
“Seeing and seeing” is essential. One glance is not presented as sufficient. Basavanna watches repeatedly, and the Sharana’s steadiness remains visible through continued observation.
Astonishment is the response produced by this seeing. Basavanna does not judge, classify, or attempt to imitate what he sees. He stands in wonder before a life that is not driven by the ordinary rhythm of approach and withdrawal.
The concluding movement gives the ground of that condition. The Sharana remains established in Kudalasangama Deva as one naturally at ease and fulfilled.
His ease is not comfort obtained from favourable circumstances. It arises from abiding in the Lord without being carried away by what comes and goes.
The sequence is therefore exact: the Sharana is not governed by contact and restraint; he does not live through coming and going; his conduct is repeatedly beheld; Basavanna becomes astonished; and the Sharana rests naturally in Kudalasangama Deva.
Lingayoga
In Lingayoga, the practitioner must observe how quickly attention moves toward what attracts and away from what disturbs. Such movement keeps practice dependent upon changing conditions.
The vachana directs attention toward steadiness in Linga. Practice matures when coming and going no longer repeatedly displace the mind and when conduct remains aligned with Kudalasangama Deva through changing circumstances.
The Sharana’s life also becomes instruction. Rather than seeking extraordinary claims, the practitioner should behold how realized relation appears in conduct—through ease, non-reactivity, and continued abidance.
Editorial Commentary
The opening expression should remain attached to the opposed movements of contact and restraint.
“Coming and going” should not be interpreted as the physical cessation of movement. The Sharana continues embodied life without allowing changing conditions to become his inward measure.
The concluding word indicates being naturally at ease or well established in Kudalasangama Deva. It does not describe indifference, inactivity, or emotional numbness.
Related Vachana
Supporting Vachana
Sharana Sthala Vachana 250 — The Unseen Joy That Cannot Be Bought
Sharana Vachana 250 teaches that the unseen experience of the Sharanas must first be received with humility and cannot be purchased or transferred.
It prepares Vachana 903, where receptive listening matures into repeated direct seeing and astonishment before the Sharana’s settled conduct.
Advancing Vachana
Aikya Sthala Vachana 941 — See the Sahaja Sharana
Vachana 941 carries this ease into uninterrupted Sahaja, where birth and death, doubt, and form and formlessness no longer confine the Sharana.
The settled conduct beheld in Vachana 903 thus deepens into the fully established Sahaja Sharana.
